Contents
Part I. Introduction
U.S. Higher Education Effectiveness
- Steven Brint and Charles T. Clotfelter
Overview of the Volume - Steven Brint and Charles T. Clotfelter
Part II. Supply and Demand: Cost and Distributional Outcomes
The Changing Landscape of Tuition and Enrollment in American Public Higher Education - Steven W. Hemelt and Dave E. Marcotte
Income and Access to Higher Education: Are High Quality Universities Becoming More or Less Elite? A Longitudinal Case Study of Admissions at UW-Madison - Sara E. Dahill-Brown, John F. Witte, and
Barbara Wolfe
Beyond Earnings and Social Reproduction: Can College Lead to Good Jobs Without Reproducing Social Inequalities? - James E. Rosenbaum, Caitlin E. Ahearn, Janet E. Rosenbaum, and Kelly I. Becker
Part III. Policy Interventions: Incentives, Controls, and Metrics
Pricing and University Autonomy: Tuition Deregulation in Texas - Jeongeun Kim and Kevin Stange
Looking Inside the Black Box of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Policy Instruments, Organizational Obstacles, and Intended and Unintended Impacts - Kevin J. Dougherty, Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr, Rebecca S. Natow, Lara Pheatt, and Vikash Reddy
The Promises and Pitfalls of Measuring Community College Quality - Michal Kurlaender, Scott Carrell, and Jacob
Jackson
Part IV. Teaching and Learning: Contexts and Practices
Aligning Science Achievement and STEM Expectations for College Success: A Comparative Study of Curricular Standardization - Siqi Han and Claudia Buchmann
Evaluating Promising Practices in Undergraduate STEM Lecture Courses - Lynn C. Reimer, Katerina Schenke, Tutrang Nguyen, Diane K. O’Dowd, Thurston Domina, and Mark Warschauer