Do Frills Have a Future?

Autor/in	Selingo, Jeffrey J.
Titel	Do Frills Have a Future?
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2009) 25, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Educational Quality; Economic Change; Institutional Survival; Change Strategies; Educational Change; Paying for College; Financial Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ökonomischer Wandel; Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Studienfinanzierung
Abstract	As the nation's economy began to sputter early last year, two areas proved resilient to the cutback in Americans' spending: luxury goods and college degrees. By the end of 2008, however, luxury stores had recorded the greatest decline in sales of any retail-chain category. Optimistic college presidents believe they will be spared a drastic enrollment decline next fall, but some feel that the current economic downturn may force a significant number of private and public colleges to reduce their campuses to little more than their core missions. In three national public-opinion polls conducted by "The Chronicle" in recent years, respondents consistently said that the quality of a higher education was better at a more-expensive private institution than at a public one. But economists are saying this recession is different, and it is possible students and parents may begin to look beyond price for measures of quality, such as that being considered by the Pennsylvania State Board of Education to create a new kind of accelerated, year-round college to offer a lower-cost bachelor's degree. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10