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ACTAAmerican Council ofTrustees and Alumni

National Trends Public Research Universities, 1993-2007

Tuition (inflation adjusted) up 79.4%

Enrollment up 14.6%

Administrative spending up 36.9%

Instructional spending up 26.4%(Jay Greene, “Administrative Bloat at American Universities, Goldwater Institute, nr. 239 (August 17, 2010)

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“Could not enormous savings be realized by expanding audiences via electronic means, by using taped lectures on multiple occasions, or by utilizing interactive computerized learning approaches in survey courses? A number of for-profit providers are showing that these techniques do have considerable promise, yet they are still used only sparingly in higher education.”

Distance Education

Richard VedderCenter for College Affordability and Productivity

“The traditional [university] structure … suboptimizes the university’s resources because it breeds wasteful competition, an inefficient use of resources and a rigidity that discourages rapid response to challenges and opportunities.”

Restructuring and Cooperation

Elizabeth Capaldi“Intellectual Transformation and Budgetary Savings Through Academic Reorganization”Change, July-August 2009