Doing More with Less: Making Colleges Work Better

Introduction: The American Higher Education Problem.- Introduction: The American Higher Education Problem.- Evaluating and Debating Causes.- Financial Aid in Theory and Practice.- Price Discrimination and Rising Costs: Is There Any Relationship?.- Cost Inflation in Intercollegiate Athletics: And Some Modest Proposals for Controlling It.- The Academics-Athletics Trade-Off: Universities and Intercollegiate Athletics.- Is For-Profit Education the Solution?.- For-Profit Education in the USA: A Primer.- A Market-Funded College's Approach to Student Learning and Job Placement: An Insider's View.- The Economics of For-Profit Education.- Opportunities for Reform.- Getting It Right: Where University Systems Lose Information in Designing Programs.- Managing the Internal Organization of Colleges and Universities.- Privatize It: Outsourcing and Privatization in Higher Education.- Improving Higher Education Using the Principles of Market-Based Management®.- A Tale of Two Partners: How Specialization and Division of Labor Are Reshaping the Academy.