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Tuition Rising: Why Colleges Cost So Muchreviewed by John Farago - 2003 Title: Tuition Rising: Why Colleges Cost So Much Author(s): Ronald Ehrenberg Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge ISBN: 0674009886, Pages: 322, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com Tuition Rising: Why Colleges Cost So Much is a
tease. Ronald Ehrenberg -- a noted labor economist,
university administrator, and director of the Cornell Higher
Education Research Institute -- lures the reader in, asking a most
provocative question, and then proceeds to respond, rather
engagingly and comprehensively, to a series of far more mundane
queries, leaving the controversial issue of its subtitle squarely
on the table. As a result, the book poses questions it
does not answer and frames dilemmas it cannot resolve.
The reader's frustration is exacerbated by small methodological
lapses: Ehrenberg never fully defines his terms, he fails to
embrace a set of clear normative or policy premises, and he tends
to allow his focus to stray within relatively broad bounds. Even
so, he articulates a tantalizing problem: How is it that a small
group of elite colleges and universities (enrolling roughly one out
of every twenty college students in America), have consistently
managed to raise tuition more than the cost of living, year... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- John Farago
CUNY Law School E-mail Author JOHN M. FARAGO teaches at, and was one of the founding administrators of, CUNY Law School.
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