Why the rising tuition costs?

The New York Times spoke with Burton Weisbrod, author of Mission and Money on rising tuition costs.
“Am I, for example, as a tenured professor or any tenured faculty member necessarily, or even probably, a better undergraduate teacher because I am doing research? The answer to that is not clear at all.”

‘Mission and Money’ in Higher Ed

Burton Weisbrod, one of the authors of Mission and Money did a very interesting Q & A with Inside Higher Ed today.
Questions of university funding are now swept up in our economic mess, and for now, no one’s asking if endowments are too big. Weisbrod’s answers poke a little further into how universities really get [...]

Don’t judge a college endowment by its wealth

Forcing schools to spend more of their endowments on easing tuition burdens would put nonprofits on a slippery slope.
In a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Cambridge authors Burton A.Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou and Evelyn D. Asch explain why bigger spending doesn’t always translate to lower tuitions.

In their Oct. 12 Op-Ed articles, Sen. Charles E. Grassley [...]