Doug's paper noted the decreased government support for colleges. Yet at the same time -- if I'm doing the numbers right -- constant-dollar expenditures per student appear to have climbed steadily since around 1980, both in public and private universities, with the slack of course being taken up by the students and their families:
http://bit.ly/awNoov If this seems implausible I'll be happy to explain how I got it; the short answer is, by combining a couple of tables I found at a site Wojtek referred us to, a couple of days ago: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/ What's going on here? Where's the money being spent? -- Michael J. Smith [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
