Campus Economics
eBook - PDF

Campus Economics

How Economic Thinking Can Help Improve College and University Decisions

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Campus Economics

How Economic Thinking Can Help Improve College and University Decisions

About this book

An invaluable primer on the role economic reasoning plays in campus debate and decision making

Campus Economics provides college and university administrators, trustees, and faculty with an essential understanding of how college finances actually work. Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson explain the concepts needed to analyze the pros, the cons, and the trade-offs of difficult decisions, and offer a common language for discussing the many challenges confronting institutions of higher learning today, from COVID-19 to funding cuts and declining enrollments.

Emphasizing the unique characteristics of the academic enterprise and the primacy of the institutional mission, Baum and McPherson use economic concepts such as opportunity cost and decisions at the margin to facilitate conversations about how best to ensure an institution's ongoing success. The problems facing higher education are more urgent than ever before, but the underlying issues are the same in good times and bad. Baum and McPherson give nontechnical, user-friendly guidance for navigating all kinds of economic conditions and draw on real-world examples of campus issues to illustrate both institutional constraints and untapped opportunities.

Campus Economics helps faculty, administrators, trustees, and government policymakers engage in constructive dialogue that can lead to decisions that align finite resources with the pursuit of the institutional mission.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. Colleges, College Students, and College Finances
  6. Chapter 2. Basic Economic Concepts and College Financing
  7. Chapter 3. Building Blocks of College Finance
  8. Chapter 4. Is a College a Business?
  9. Chapter 5. How Should We Think about the Compensation Budget? Salaries, Compensation, and Faculty Status
  10. Chapter 6. Do We Really Have to Cut the Budget?
  11. Chapter 7. Can Pricing and Financial Aid Policies Be More Transparent?
  12. Chapter 8. What Is the Role of College Endowments?: The College’s Savings Account
  13. Chapter 9. Conclusion: Moving Forward
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index