Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much.(Review)

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October, 2001 by Clotfelter, Charles T.

Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much. By Ronald G. Ehrenberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 322 pp. ISBN 0-674-00328-4, $39.95 (cloth).

The starting point for Ronald Ehrenberg's Tuition Rising is the stark reality that tuition costs at American private colleges and universities have annually been increasing 2 to 3 percentage points faster than the rate of inflation and, since around 1980, also faster than the growth of household incomes. Ehrenberg agrees with other observers who believe such rates cannot continue without dire consequences. But though this book begins and ends by focusing on this cost escalation, it is about much more than rising tuition. Like Henry Rosovsky's The University: A User's Guide(New York: Norton, 1990), it...

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