For 2019-20 state government will spend $4.32 per $1,000 of PI on higher ed. It was $4.02 in 2014-15. The national average increased from $5.48 to $5.55. Data is from https://education.illinoisstate.edu/grapevine/about/
Posts tagged as “Higher Ed in general”
Two interesting stories from Colleen Flaherty in InsideHigherEd. Please pass along other similar stories in the comments: Purdue: Pay for graduate teaching assistants in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University is among the lowest in the Big Ten — a little less than $14,000 a year, before taxes.…
7/3/2013: Benjamin Franklin was a failure as an apprentice chandler and a runaway from his first apprenticeship as a printer. Eventually he figured out what to do with his life, and in the end donated L1,000 in his will to start a revolving fund to lend money to Boston students.…
Friday at 12. Kitzhaber’s hire as education czar. He can’t be as bad as Pernsteiner, right?
Lots of things. If you just compare the list price of tuition and fees and immediate average salary, you get this, for UVA. Obviously this excludes the non-pecuniary benefits of 4 years of college fun and the lifetime benefits of knowing stuff, as well as career income. External benefits from…
From a new report out of Georgetown, “The College Advantage“. Enrollment gains are highest for men, though not enough to make up for the female advantage. The employment and earnings advantages of college have persisted.
5/14/2012: The average debt for a student graduating with a bachelor’s is about the same as the loan for a new car, and the average return is considerable larger. A lot of graduates have to get an installment loan online to help them pay back what they owe, but it’s…
1/27/2012: things are *really* going to hell. From Susan Palmer in the RG: The Springfield district also had a slight increase in the four-year graduation rate, up a point to 62 percent, even as one of its schools, Springfield High, saw its rate drop by almost 6 points. … The…
1/19/2012: This is by family income. Medical school gives you the best shot, followed by economics. Art history majors have better odds than finance students. Think about that for a minute. The NYT post this comes from has more majors and discussion.
10/28/2011: From here, via those economists at marginalrevolution. Recent trend for women is flatter. Maybe we should charge them more?
8/23/2011: Sorry I missed this Janie Har story when it came out last week: Oregon Rep. Ben Cannon, D-Portland, is resigning from the Legislature to become Gov. John Kitzhaber’s top education adviser. Cannon, a Democrat now in his third term in the House, will replace Nancy Golden, a temporary hire…
7/12/2011: From the Texas Tribune. Motivated by the debate about measuring faculty productivity. Hamermesh is a labor economist at UT, Riley is the author of “The Faulty Lounges“. The clip is mostly about tenure. “The Hammer”, as he occasionally tries to get his colleagues to nickname him, has no hesitancy…
6/27/2011: From the David Leonhart NYT piece (thanks to marginalrevolution.com). Presumably the increasing payoffs to college arise from the fact that the economic payoff to being able to explain the difference between correlation and causation to your boss peaks at age 50.
6/3/2011: Becky Supiano in the Chronicle: To come up with a benchmark for affordability, the group used Npsas data to calculate how much of a family’s income would be required to pay the average cost of college after grant aid at colleges generally, and found that it was 27 percent…
5/19/2011: Or the usual recession result? Don’t expect the NY Times to actually do any analysis. A quotefest from Catherine Rampell in the NY Times: The median starting salary for students graduating from four-year colleges in 2009 and 2010 was $27,000, down from $30,000 for those who entered the work…