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Books : In Pursuit of Prestige: Strategy and Competition in U.S. Higher EducationIn association with Amazon.com Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 378 EAN: 9780765808295 ISBN: 0765808293 Label: Transaction Publishers Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 175 Publication Date: August 24, 2004 Publisher: Transaction Publishers Studio: Transaction Publishers Sales Rank: 1353995 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Higher education is widely regarded as an American success story. It educates unprecedented numbers of students and produces an unrivalled research base. By almost any measure, higher education is a vital part of the U.S. economy and society. Yet there is concern that the sector is inefficient or self-serving and ill equipped to adapt to a changing environment. The information revolution, an aging population, demographic shifts, and a declining fiscal base all present major challenges to American colleges and universities. In Pursuit of Prestige describes the results of a two-year study of higher education in the United States designed to shed light on these issues. This volume examines higher education as an industry. The authors focus on how institutions serve four identifiable markets that generate revenues (student enrollment, research funding, public fiscal support, and private giving). They describe and analyze higher educational institutions' investment, pricing, and marketing behaviors, and the nature of competition among schools. They review the industry's basic conditions and market structure, then define the three key dimensions -- degree level, scope, and resource allocation -- by which institutions map out strategies for competing for markets. The heart of the book is an analysis showing how these strategies are carried out based on site-visit data from 26 highly diverse colleges and universities. This broad sampling covers all geographic regions of the country and every type of institution from elite research universities to community colleges. The authors then consider what strategies are possible in particular markets and how they affect students and competinginstitutions. Their conclusion draws out the implications of strategy and competition for the various customers of the U.S. higher education industry. Groundbreaking and genuinely exploratory in methodology, In Pursuit of Prestige will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of higher education. Browse for similar items by category:
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