A Second Swing for the Fences: Higher Education Investment in the Time of COVID-19

Autor/inn/en	Handel, Stephen J.; Strempel, Eileen
Titel	A Second Swing for the Fences: Higher Education Investment in the Time of COVID-19
Quelle	In: College and University, 96 (2021) 1, S.41-46 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0889
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Finance; COVID-19; Pandemics; Educational Change; Paying for College; Transfer Policy; State Aid; Federal Aid; Community Colleges; Public Colleges + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsfonds; Bildungsreform; Studienfinanzierung; Community college; Community College
Abstract	In 2008 it was certain that the Great Recession would represent--for this generation--the singular reordering of higher education. As a result, it was assumed that colleges and universities would be forced to become vastly more efficient places by graduating more students with high-value certificates and degrees. Despite significant cuts to higher education budgets in 2008 and beyond, colleges and universities did not become more efficient; they mostly raised prices. Then, as now, the calculus for higher education sustainability is as clear as it is challenging: More students who earn quality degrees in a timely fashion leads to perceptions of enhanced institutional value. Heightened institutional value boosts enrollment. Greater enrollment fuels operating budgets. In this article the authors argue that this ethos comes with cost, but not necessarily "extra cost." The focus on community colleges and transfer has nothing to do with special pleading for one segment of postsecondary education over another. Community colleges enroll more marginalized students than other higher education institutions. These students are the future of higher education. For most underrepresented students, starting at a community college is not simply a preference; it is an economic certainty. Linking them to four-year colleges and universities via the traditional transfer process remains the best hope for a fully-democratized higher education commitment that can sustain itself through yet another devastating economic downturn. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01