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July 9, 2010
Follow the Higher Education Dollar
Oh this is a dangerous tool - I may be fiddling with comparisons all day (luckily I have to meet a job candidate in English for lunch, so that will tear me away).
At Inside Higher Ed I read about the Delta Project:
In a sea of often bewildering data about college spending practices, a small island of clarity is emerging.In conjunction with its third annual "Trends in College Spending" report, released today, the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability provides a publicly available database that allows journalists, policy makers and anyone curious about higher education an opportunity to decipher where college funding comes from and where it goes.
While the Delta Cost Project has for years provided broad overviews of spending practices at various types of institutions, the new database's groundbreaking feature is that -- fasten your seatbelts -- it allows for an analysis of the budget priorities of individual institutions. Jane Wellman, the project's executive director, hopes that the new data will stimulate conversations about spending priorities and cost containment -- or the lack thereof -- that generally aren't happening now at the national, state or institutional level. Such conversations, she adds, are long overdue.
Go read the caveats about the data. Then go to the Delta Project and start finding out more about insitutions you care about!
Posted by CrankyProfessor at July 9, 2010 11:40 AM