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Delta Cost Project's Steven Hurlburt discusses key takeaways from Trends in College Spending: 2003-2013
Our director discusses the findings and implications in a blog post for the American Institutes for Research's Education Policy Center.
Delta Cost Project's College Spending in a Turbulent Decade (2000-2013) featured in Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education
John R. Thelin's book, a compendium of key documents in the history of higher education, has become a standard in higher education studies. Read the Delta Cost Project report included in the book here.
Donna Desrochers writes, Think Again: Is Rampant College Spending Behind Skyrocketing Tuition Bills? Or Not?
Our former director challenges a commonly held perception about increasing college costs.
Delta Cost Project's Labor Intensive or Labor Expensive? cited in Think Again: Administrators Ate My Tuition! Really?
Think Again is a series of insights from AIR experts that challenge commonly held perceptions. Read the Delta Cost Project issue brief referenced in this expert commentary here.
Delta Cost in the News
March 2016: The Tiger: Back to education
March 2016: Alton Telegraph: Dunphy: College sports robs academics
February 2016: HuffPost Education: What Berkeley's budget cuts tell us about America's public universities
February 2016: The Maine Wire: Curbing Higher Education Cost Starts with Smart Expenditures
February 2016: Salon: Meet the real student-loan victims: Ivy League schools, the 1 percent and the real cause of tuition creep
February 2016: GoodCall: Colleges Being Funded Increasingly by Tuition, According to Recent Report
What's New
The Delta Cost Project Database is updated with 2014-15 data. These data have been translated into analytical formats to allow for longitudinal analyses of trends in postsecondary education with a focus on revenues and expenditures.
Contingent faculty now comprise the majority of all faculty at U.S. colleges and universities. This brief, the first of a two-part series, presents a profile of the contingent workforce, examining the number and percentage of non-tenure-track...
Little is known about whether relying more heavily on contingent faculty result in lower overall costs or if the money saved on instruction is being spent in other areas. This brief, the second in a two-part series, documents the financial trade-...
