Jackson Library

Required Texts:

• John Aubrey Douglass. The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007) • Catalog records
• Ronald G. Ehrenberg. Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000)
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• Derek Bok. Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003) • Catalog records | View excerpt
• Course reader.

Optional Texts:

• Richard Vedder. Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs too Much. (Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute, 2004)
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• Katharine Lyall & Kathleen Sell. The True Genius of America at Risk: Are We Losing Our Public Universities to De Facto Privatization? (Westport, CT: Praeger/ACE, 2006) • Catalog record
• Ronald G Ehrenberg. What’s Happening to Public Higher Education? (Westport CT: ACE/Praeger, 2006) • Catalog record

For more books, search Socrates using the subject term: Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States

Additional subject terms you may try:

• Business and education -- United States
• Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
• Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration
• Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty
• Universities and colleges -- United States -- Finance

Key eJournals: 

• American Journal of Education
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Economics of education review
• Journal of higher education
• New directions for higher education
• Recruitment and retention in higher education
• The ReView of Higher Education

Literature Databases:

• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center): Largest source of education information, sponsored by U.S. Dept. of Education 
• Econlit: Economics literature 
• EBSCO Business Source Complete: Business literature 
• Factiva: extensive coverage of news articles 

Reports:

• Derek Bok: Business Lessons for Education Leaders - Harvard Business School Working Knowledge interviews former Harvard President Derek Bok, the author of the book Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education.
• Trends in College Pricing and Financial Aid 2007 - Reports from College Board.
• Economic Growth Through Increased College Enrollment - an Issue Brief from The Business-Higher Education Forum

News:

• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Money & Management; Special Issues and Data
• The College Journal - from WSJ.

Associations & Nonprofits:

• American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) - Association of faculty, administrators, students, policy makers and leaders in the field of Higher Education.
• The Business-Higher Education Forum - an organization of Fortune 500 CEOs, prominent college and university presidents, and foundation leaders working to advance innovative solutions to our nation's education challenges.
• EDUCAUSE - a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Publishes EDUCAUSE Quarterly.
• National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education - a nonprofit organization providing analyses of pressing policy issues regarding opportunity and achievement in higher education.
• National Education Association: Higher Education

Blogs:

• News Blog - from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• The Higher Ed Watch Blog - from New America's Education Policy Program.
• Inside Higher Ed Blogs
• Workplace Blog - issues, events, & breaking news from Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor

From NPR:

• Report: Cost of College Sways Final Choices, Jan. 19, 2007
• Students at High-Cost Colleges Wrestle with Budgets, Nov. 7, 2006
• The High Cost of Private Universities, May 25, 2005
• Taking Issue: The Rising Costs of College, May 3, 2005
• 'Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line', Jan. 31, 2004: NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to David Kirp, author of a new book about the commercialization of higher education in America titled Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education. • Catalog records | View excerpt | Book review