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Private, Personal Benefits/Risks of Going to College
Unit 3
Week of November 13
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Outcomes for Today
Review Wednesday’s In-Class Activity
Review the Anatomy of College Tuition.
Activity for Education Pays article.
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Unit 3
College Access and Affordability
In-Class Activity
Part 1
In groups, describe 3-4 issues or challenges that threaten access to and equity in higher education. Support and illustrate your response with examples class discussion, course readings, or relevant news stories. (If you are using news stories not discussed in class, please be sure to cite these).
Part 2
Think through solutions for these 3-4 challenges. Assume you have access to all of the means you need to make these solutions work. Please note the key players involved to making your solutions come to fruition (e.g. stakeholders, funding sources, programs, etc.).
Unit 3
Anatomy of College Tuition
THINK~PAIR~SHARE
What do you think are some factors that contribute to the rising cost of higher education?
The Anatomy of College Tuition
What does it cost to provide higher education?
Heavily subsidized activity.
Endowment and private giving.
Discount tuition for some students.
The Anatomy of College Tuition
The Anatomy of College Tuition
The story of rising college cost is part of the larger story of technological change that has reshaped the American economy over the last century.
Tripod:
Cost Disease
Cost of Employing Highly Educated Service Providers.
The Standard of Care
The Anatomy of College Tuition
Cost disease - what do we mean by this?
Higher education relies on a highly educated work force.
Standard of care - new technologies alter what we teach and how we teach it.
The Anatomy of College Tuition
Alternative View:
Prestige
Students
Faculty and Administration
The Anatomy of College Tuition
The role of subsidies.
The amount of the subsidy and its sources are changing and this has had a profound effect on what colleges charge.
Since 1980, the states have gradually reduced their support of higher education.
Families have borne an increasing fraction of a rising tuition bill.
The Anatomy of College Tuition
Tuition Discounting
List price in catalogues isn’t what students actually pay.
If schools did not offer discounts, list price could be lower.
Why is it important to offer discounts?
Growing use of discounting is part of the rising price in tuition in recent years.
The Anatomy of College Tuition
The Anatomy of College Tuition
Recap
Maintaining and improving access to high quality programming is a desirable goal.
Affordability is a problem for many families who are not poor.
Cost containment in higher education requires meaningful productivity improvements that maintain or improve educational outcomes.
Education Pays
Should Everyone Go to College
In-Class Activity
Work in groups of 2-3
Will review answers as a large group.
Next Steps
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Next Steps:
Readings for Wednesday.
Class on November 17
Fall break November 20-24
Questions?
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