The states and public higher education policy
Subtitle: affordability, access, and accountability
By: edited by Donald E. Heller
Contributors: Heller, Donald E
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Higher education and state -- United States -- Congresses; State universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Results partly from a conference held in Ann Arbor, Mich., in June 1998

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the changing dynamics of affordability, access, and accountability in public higher education / Donald E. Heller; title: Trends in the affordability of public colleges and universities: the contradiction of increasing prices and increasing enrollement / Donald E. Heller; title: The paradox of college prices: five stories with no clear lesson / Michael Mumper; title: Reforming the ways in which states finance higher education / Arthur M. Hauptman; title: Reframing access and opportunity: problematic state and federal higher education policy in the 1990s / Patrick M. Callan; title: Time for retreat or renewal? Perspectives on the effects of Hopwood on campus / Sylvia Hurtado and Heather Wathington Cade; title: The contemporary politics of access policy: California after Proposition 209 / Brian Pusser; title: Public policy and accountability in higher education: lessons from the past and present for the new millennium / William Zumeta; title: A study in tension: state assessment and public colleges and universities / Michael Nettles and John Cole; title: The call for public accountability: rethinking the linkages to student outcomes / Edward P. St. John, Kimberly A. Kline, and Eric H. Asker; title: Conclusion: technology and the future of public higher education policy / Donald E. Heller