Analyses/Reports
Delta Project Data
The Delta Project has organized data on operating spending and revenues into aggregate measures of costs per student and costs per degree/certificate produced, organized into Carnegie classifications separating public and private nonprofit institutions.
Delta Project Reports
The Growing Imbalance
April 2008 (PDF)Recent trends in postsecondary education finance.
Issue Brief #1: Who Pays for Higher Education?
Changing Patterns in Cost, Price, and Subsidies
April 2008 (PDF)
To understand why tuitions are increasing at institutions of higher education, policymakers need to look at the relationships between and among cost, price and subsidy. This brief explains how to understand those relationships, what the trend data show at a national level, places to go for more information, and questions to ask.
Delta Project Presentations
Improving Accountability for Costs in Postsecondary Education (PowerPoint)
Jane V. Wellman
University of Louisiana System Education Forum on Access to Success
March 27, 2008
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Top-line Findings From Analysis of Revenue and Expenditure Trends (PowerPoint)
Jane V. Wellman
ACE_SARA Research Group
February 29, 2008
Washington, DC
Reports From Other Sources
One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 (PDF), by the PEW Center on the States, is a trend report on spending for corrections, which includes a snapshot of trends in spending for higher education (declining) compared to trends in spending on corrections (increasing).