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It is difficult to justify increased state government support for higher education using arguments based only on how higher education contributes to economic growth. The authors find no strong relationship between state funding of higher education and employment concentration in high-technology industries. Instead, they find that investment in public higher education will tend to be lower than justified on economic efficiency grounds because of the incentives for states to free ride off of the investments of other states. A challenge is to build advocacy strategies that take into account some of the realities of the relationship between public expenditures in higher education and economic growth, including the fact that the relationship is strongly influenced by the movement of educated workers across state borders. Other justifications for public higher education will have to be used, including the reduction of transaction costs for businesses in the state and the expansion of knowledge exchange.

Die Autoren zeigen, dass grenzüberschreitende Tendenzen in der Hochschulbildung nicht nur von verschiedenen politischen Systemen geformt werden, sondern auch von der Beschaffenheit der politischen Netzwerke innerhalb einzelner Länder abhängen. Da sich diese Netzwerke in Bezug auf das jeweilige Politikfeld unterscheiden, müssen bei der Erfassung der Veränderungen in der Hochschulbildung beide Ebenen gleichermaßen in Betracht gezogen werden. Die Autoren verdeutlichen dies exemplarisch für die Länder Großbritannien und die Niederlande und beschreiben die Veränderungen bei der Finanzpolitik, der Entwicklung von Qualitätssystemen, der Regelung neuer Studienprogramme und des Ausbaus der Beziehungen zwischen den Hochschulen und der Industrie. Obwohl es eine übergreifende Richtung der Veränderungen in diesen Bereichen gibt, die seit Anfang der 1980er Jahre zu verzeichnen sind, unterscheiden sich die eingeschlagenen Wege und ihr Einfluss auf das nationale politische System in deutlichem Maße. In einem politischen Mehrheitssystem, wie in Großbritannien, sind rasche Veränderungen bei den politischen Strategien zu erkennen, während für Länder, deren politisches System auf einer Konsensfindung beruht, wie die Niederlande, langsame, aber stetige Veränderungen typisch sind. (ICI).

Many public college and university leaders will enter the new decade with some hope and confidence in the policy arena, with the tailwinds of a strong national economy, healthier state budgets and state political environments more conducive to investments in higher education. This report examines the most prominent state higher education policy issues for 2020. This report not only includes topics of longstanding concern to state policymakers but also emerging issues that will be new to the state legislatures. ; American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Public college and university leaders will enter a state policy landscape in 2018 marked by more political uncertainty than any time in recent memory. The immediate driver of state-level uncertainty is the overhaul of the federal tax code signed by President Donald Trump in late 2017. This report provides a review of higher education policy issues that legislators and governors are mostly likely to discuss. This 11th annual assessment of state higher education policy issues includes a mix of new issuessuch as federal policy changesand longstanding policy debates, such as budgets, guns on campus, performance funding and immigration. Newspaper articles, economic forecasts, gubernatorial addresses, and the 2017 state legislative sessions informed this analysis. ; American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)

Intro -- THE SCIENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: State Higher Education Policy and the Laws of Scale -- COPYRIGHT © 2021 BY STYLUS PUBLISHING, LLC -- Table of Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR A SCIENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION -- CHAPTER 1: COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND STATE HIGHER EDUCATION -- CHAPTER 2: A NEW PARADIGM -- CHAPTER 3: ACTOR INTERACTIONS: Nature and Context -- PART TWO: SCALE PATTERNS -- CHAPTER 4: LESSONS FROM LIFE SCIENCES AND CITIES -- CHAPTER 5: SCALE AND STATE HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING -- CHAPTER 6: SCALE AND STATE POLICY -- CHAPTER 7: HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLY -- PART THREE: OUTCOMES AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT -- CHAPTER 8: HIGHER EDUCATION OUTCOMES -- CHAPTER 9: RETURN ON INVESTMENT: Funding and Outcomes -- CHAPTER 10: POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX A: Glossary of Terms -- APPENDIX B: 2015 All State Data (Original Units) -- APPENDIX C: Logarithmic Regression Results (Predictions) -- APPENDIX D: Population:Funding Scale Results -- APPENDIX E: Population:Enrollment Scale Results -- APPENDIX F: Population:Completion Scale Results -- APPENDIX G: Population:Institutions (Supply) Scale Results -- APPENDIX H: Funding:Enrollment Scale Results -- APPENDIX I: Funding:Completion Scale Results -- APPENDIX J: Statistical Results: All Scale Analysis -- APPENDIX K: Linear and Scale Ranking Comparisons -- APPENDIX L: Exponents, Logarithms, and Scale Review -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX.

Public college and university leaders will enter a more optimistic state policy landscape in 2019, stemming from strong state revenue forecasts and a new class of political leaders who campaigned on proposals to expand college access, enhance college affordability and address workforce development needs. However, intense competition for state resources, continued concern over appropriate policy responses to state demographic shifts, and growing anxiety over market volatility and the prospect of an economic downturn will temper this optimism. In this regard, this report points out some higher education state policy issues for 2019. ; American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) ; Policy Matters

Higher education is a central institution in U.S. democracy. In the 2010s, however, many states that spent previous decades building up their higher education systems began to tear them down. Growing hostility toward higher education reflected changing social forces that remade the politics of U.S. higher education. The political Right became increasingly reliant on angry white voters as higher education became more racially diverse. The Republican party became more closely connected to extremely wealthy donors as higher education became more costly. In Wrecked, Barrett J. Taylor shows how these social changes set a collision course for the Right and higher education. These attacks fed a policy agenda of deinstitutionalization, which encompassed stark divestment from higher education but was primarily characterized by an attack on the institution's social foundation of public trust. In response to these attacks, higher education officials have offered a series of partial defenses that helped higher education to cope in the short-term but did nothing to defend the institution itself against the long-term threat of declining public trust. The failure to address underlying issues of mistrust allowed conflict to escalate to the point at which many states are now wrecking their public higher education systems. Wrecked offers a unique and compelling perspective linking higher education policymaking to broader social and political forces acting in the twenty-first century

Presented is an overview of the complex decision-making process determining policies affecting higher education in the US. Postsecondary education is characterized by intense diversity; illustrative issues are presented from the institutional, state, national, & transnational levels. A number of different visions of what the U should be have been combined to produce the US U's modern form. W. H. Stoddard.

First published in 1988, this book focuses on diversity and discourse, and collects contemporaneous research across a wide range of topics including: description, polemic, narrative analysis, DJ talk, philosophical history, conversation, children's books and nuclear deterrence. The essays demonstrate analyses of discourse in the service of stylistic inquiry, exploring relationships of text and context. This reflects the overall argument that discourse analyses aiming to represent diversity of social context will necessarily approach the task selectively, since all dimensions are of potential relevance to any and every communicative manifestation. Some of contextual dimensions that are addressed include: interpersonal, socio-structural, modal, ideological, and pragmatic.

The State of Developmental Education is the first book to provide a thorough, comparative picture of how developmental education is carried out at higher education institutions and investigate how different state-level policies and priorities change the availability, types, and quality of developmental education available