In the last few decades, the growth of administration costs on higher education campuses surpassed the growth of instructional costs. The escalating costs of higher education, which
are now outpacing general price levels, have raised concern for policy-makers who are challenged to increase access and make higher education affordable but are constrained by budgets. The
recent recession, with wide-spread effect on economy, provided the opportunity to examine cost patterns on higher education during the recession. This research explored different revenue,
costs, staff composition, and state-level factors that might be associated with administration costs, and compared these to the association of the same independent variables on
instructional costs for three types of public four year institutions. This research examined the changes in costs during the last recession. Panel data of a cohort of public institutions
with non-missing values over a 23 year period of 1988 to 2010 were analyzed within fixed effect regression models. Revenue factors were shown to have positive relationships with
administration costs, and other factors had mixed associations. While descriptive trend analysis showed a decrease in administration costs in the short-run, regression analysis
incorporating 23 years of data did not show such decline from a long-term perspective. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy. / Fall Semester 2015. / September 8, 2015. / Includes bibliographical references. / Robert Schwartz, Professor Directing Dissertation; Diana Rice, University Representative; Shouping Hu, Committee Member; David Tandberg, Committee
Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_291301 |
| Contributors | Jana, Asitava (authoraut), Schwartz, Robert A. (professor directing dissertation), Rice, Diana Claries, 1949- (university representative), Hu, Shouping (committee member), Tandberg, David A. (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Education (degree granting college), Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (degree granting department) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (151 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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