Assignment 1 - ECO - 30 Hours

Raise or Lower Tuition?

You have been hired by Nobody State University (NSU) as a consultant to help the university with how to increase their total revenue. The university has been struggling in recent years, so they have hired you to help them in their last attempt to find an appropriate solution so that the university can survive. 

Raise or Lower Tuition? Suppose that, in an attempt to raise more revenue, Nobody State University increases its tuition. 

• Assess a raise in tuition and if it will necessarily result in more revenue.
• Describe the conditions under which revenue will (a) rise, (b) fall, or (c) remain the same.
• Explain the process of revenue at NSU, focusing on the relationship between the increased revenue from students enrolling at NSU despite the higher tuition and the lost revenue from possible lower enrollment.
• If the true price elasticity were (-1.2), discuss what you would suggest the university do to expand revenue.
• Using what you have learned in this course, explain how you would resolve this problem if you were the President of NSU.

In a three- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages), provide subheadings or separate paragraphs for each of the questions listed to help focus your paper for the executives that have requested it. Support your paper with at least two academic sources from the Ashford Library.

You are required to format you paper according to APA style guidelines.

DO not forget to see the GRADING RUBIC attached.

Required Resources

Required Text

1. Read the following chapters from Microeconomics Principles and Policies:. 
   
   1. Chapter 4: Elasticity: The Measure of Responsiveness
   2. Chapter 5: Demand and Consumer Choice
   3. Chapter 6: Market Failure and Government Intervention Policies

Recommended Resources

Articles

1. Bailey, M. J., Olson, M., & Wonnacott, P. (1980). The marginal utility of income does not increase: Borrowing, lending,and Friedman-savage gambles. The American Economic Review, 70 (3), 372. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
2. Beattie, B. R., & LaFrance, J. T. (2006). The law of demand versus diminishing marginal utility. Review of Agricultural Economics, 28(2), 262-271. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9353.2006.00286.x The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford Library.
   
   • The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford Library..