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As universities ready to welcome new students, some wonder about the financial health of higher education

The college-cost calamity http://www.economist.com/node/21559936 After Leadership Crisis Fueled by Distance-Ed Debate, UVA will put Free Classes Online http://chronicle.com/article/After-Leadership-Crisis-Fueled/132917/ Why the Education Bubble Will Be Worse Than the Housing...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2012/0810
Changing the Game: The Federal Role in Supporting 21st Century Educational Innovation

The Brookings Institution has had a long-standing interest in the American system of education, and this thoughtful 73-page report takes a close look at how the federal government might best intervene in this particular area of American society. The report was released in October 2008, and it was authored by Sara Mead and Andrew J. Rotherham. In their report, the authors suggest that the federal...

https://www.brookings.edu/research/changing-the-game-the-fed...
Council for Aid to Education

Based in New York City, the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) is a national nonprofit organization that was initially created in 1952. Operating as a part of the RAND corporation since 1996, CAE's primary goals are to advance corporate support of education and on improving higher education and quality. Additionally, CAE recognizes the best corporate gifts to education through its annual Leaders...

https://cae.org/
Public Universities Across the United States Continue to be Plagued by Budget Cutbacks

With the revenues taken in by state governments continuing to drop over the past fiscal year, public universities are finding themselves forced to make massive cutbacks to numerous programs. A particularly troubling legal ruling occurred this week when St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Romines ruled that the University of Missouri will potentially have to return millions of dollars in...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2002/1220
Selected papers in School Finance, 1997-99

"These commissioned papers address advances in measuring inflation and adjusting for it; the emergence of a new focus upon spending at the school level; new, private sources of funding for public education; and a review of the state of the art of assessing educational productivity." In addition to excellent summaries of the papers in this series, the Introduction and Overview in the Table of...

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs99/1999334.pdf