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Instructional spending per student: patterns and explanations

dc.contributor.authorSchulman, Steven, author
dc.contributor.authorAcademic Labor: Research & Artistry, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-31T20:16:01Z
dc.date.available2022-01-31T20:16:01Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractMost students know what they spend on tuition and other costs of attending college, but most do not know how much their colleges spend on their education in return. This paper provides figures on instructional spending per full-time equivalent student, broken down by institutional level and sector. Variations in this measure of educational spending can be substantial even among apparently similar institutions. A cross-sectional multiple regression model utilizing 2016 IPEDS data on every public and private non-profit college and university in the United States is used to explore the possible causes of these variations. It shows that instructional spending per student rises with the portion of the budget devoted to instruction. It falls with the non-tenure track portion of the instructional staff, with the prevalence of students from low-income backgrounds, and with tuition as a fraction of total revenue. These findings are mostly as expected, but most of the variation in instructional spending per student is still unexplained.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationShulman, Steven (2019) "Instructional Spending Per Student: Patterns and Explanations," Academic Labor: Research and Artistry: Vol. 3 , Article 12. Available at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/alra/vol3/iss1/12
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/234345
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectinstructional spending
dc.subjecthigher education
dc.subjectstudents
dc.titleInstructional spending per student: patterns and explanations
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