Inside American Education (54 page)
24
B. Ann Wright, “The Rating Game,”
College Board Review
, Winter 1990-91, p. 16.
25
George J. Stigler,
The Intellectual and the Market Place and Other Essays
(Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1963), p. 91.
26
Peter Rapalus, “Class of ’94 Most Ethnically Diverse Ever,” Stanford University
Campus Report
, April 11, 1990, p. 1, 6.
27
Loren Pope,
Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That’s Right for You
, pp. 125-126.
28
Carol H. Fuller, “Ph.D. Recipients: Where Did They Go to College?”
Change
, November-December, 1986, p. 43.
29
Loren Pope,
Looking Beyond the Ivy League
, p. 115.
30
David Boroff,
Campus USA
(New York: Harper & Row, 1961), p. 192.
31
Loren Pope,
Looking Beyond the Ivy League
, p. 33.
32
Howard R. Bowen,
The Costs of Higher Education: How Much Do Colleges and Universities Spend Per Student and How Much Should They Spend?
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1980), p. 119.
33
Letter from Olin Robison to David Gergen, July 10, 1987.
34
“Rankings of Universities’ Reputations and Number of Faculty Publications,”
New York Times
, January 17, 1983, p. 9.
35
“Getting Back to Basics,”
America’s Best Colleges 1991
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. News & World Report, 1990), p. 6.
36
“National Snapshot: Top Producers of Ph.D.’s”
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Almanac
, September 1, 1988, p. 34.
37
Robert J. Morse, “Behind the Rankings,”
America’s Best Colleges
, 1991, p. 9.
38
“To determine a school’s over all rank, data for each of the live key attributes … were converted to percentiles. This was done by assigning the highest raw score for any attribute or subattribute a 100 percent value and determining all the other percentile scores as a percentage of that top score.” “Best Big Universities,”
Ibid.
, p. 17. According to this procedure, if there were a hundred institutions and the fourth from the top scored 85 percent of the score of the top institution, it would be at the 85th “percentile”—while by anyone else’s definition it would be at the 95th percentile. The same misuse of the term appeared in the previous year’s edition, “What’s Behind the Rankings,”
America’s Best Colleges 1990
, p. 11.
39
“Best Small Colleges,”
America’s Best Colleges 1991
, p. 21.
40
“Regional Liberal Arts,”
Ibid.
, p. 38.
41
America’s Best Colleges, 1988
, p. 28.
42
Scott White, “The Myth of the American Dream: Whatever Happened to Honesty in College Admission?”
Journal of College Admissions
, Fall 1989, p. 30.
43
Jean Evangelauf, “Cost,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, August 16, 1989, p. Al; Jean Evangelauf, “Fees Rise, More Slowly This Year, But Surpass Inflation Rate Again,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, October 3, 1990, pp. A1, 36, 42.
44
Thomas DeLoughry, “Education Secretary Calls on Colleges to Hold Down Costs,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, December 5, 1990, p. A26.
45
“Range of 1990-91 Tuition at Four-Year Colleges,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, October 3, 1990, p. A36.
46
Ibid.
47
National Center for Education Statistics,
Digest of Education Statistics: 1990
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1991), p. 168.
48
Dartmouth: General information Bulletin 1988-89
, p. 46.
49
Karen Grassmuck, “Big Increases in Academic Support Staffs Prompt Growing Concerns on Campus,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, March 28, 1990, pp. Al, A23.
50
Eric Krock, “Administration Spending Skyrockets,”
Stanford Review
, October 15, 1989, p. 4.
51
Gregory Nagler, “Spring Opening for Chile,”
The Stanford Daily
, October 3, 1989, p. 1.
52
David Riesman,
On Higher Education
, p. 338.
53
“Controversy over Spending Practices Does Not End When President Quits,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, July 11, 1990, p. A20.
54
Jeff Gottlieb, “Stanford Billed Taxpayers for Flowers, Probes Discover,”
San Jose Mercury News
, December 14, 1990, p. A1.
55
David Dietz, “U.S. Funds Used for Wedding,” San
Francisco Chronicle
, February 15, 1991, p. A2.
56
“Some Dynamic Aspects of Academic Careers: The Urgent Need to Match Aspirations with Compensation,”
Academe
, March—April 1990, p. 5.
57
Alex Steinberg, “Vassar’s Tuition Continues to Skyrocket,”
Vassar Spectator
, September 1989, p. 9.
58
Howard R. Bowen,
The Costs of Higher Education
, p. 227. See also pp. 15-19.
59
Ibid.
, p. xii.
60
Julie L. Nicklin, “Liberal Arts Colleges Face Up to Cost-Saving Measures but Fear Their Character May be Affected by the Cuts,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, January 30, 1991, p. A26.
61
Liz McMilley, “To Boost Quality and Cut Costs, Oregon State University Adopts a Customer-Oriented Approach to Campus Services,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, February 6, 1991, p. A27.
62
Joseph Berger, “College Officials Defend Sharply Rising Tuition,”
New York Times
, March 23, 1988, p. 18.
63
Robin Wilson, “Undergraduates at Large Universities Found to Be Increasingly Dissatisfied,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, January 9, 1991, p. A38.
64
“New Math,”
The Dartmouth Review
, March 8, 1989, p. 4.
65
Gary Putka, “Do Colleges Collude on Financial Aid?”
The Wall Street Journal
, May 2, 1989, p. B1.
66
Gary Putka, “Colleges Cancel Aid Meetings Under Scrutiny,”
The Wall Street Journal
, March 12, 1991, p. B1.
67
James Cass and Max Birnbaum,
Comparative Guide to American Colleges
, 14th edition (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989), pp. 240, 492.
68
William R. Fitzsimmons, “Risky Business,”
Harvard Magazine
, January-February 1991, p.29.
69
The Marquette Investment
(Milwaukee: Marquette University Office of Admissions, undated), p. 7.
70
Karen Kaplan, “Tuition Will Rise 8.3%,”
The Tech
(M.I.T.), March 5, 1991, p. 1.
71
Kareen Khan, “Affording Brown,”
Brown Daily Herald
, March 13, 1990, p. 1.
72
Howard R. Bowen,
The Costs of Higher Education
, p. 15.
73
Computed from table in Gary Putka, “Elite Private Colleges Routinely Share Plans for Raising Tuition,”
The Wall Street Journal
, September 5, 1989, p. A1.
74
Ibid.
, p. A11.
75
Gary Putka, “Do Colleges Collude on Financial Aid?”
The Wall Street Journal
, May 2, 1989, p. B1.
76
This is Amherst
(Amherst: Amherst College Admissions Office, undated), p. 23.
77
Stanford Undergraduate University Admissions
(Stanford: Stanford University, 1987), unpaged.
78
Bulletin of Duke University, 1987-88
(Durham, N.C.: Duke University, undated), p. 44.
79
“Fitzsimmons Answers Questions on Admissions and Financial Aid,”
Harvard Alumni Gazette
, February 1990, p. 5.
80
Ibid.
81
Jacques Barzun,
Teacher in America
(Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1981), p. 269.
82
“Incomplete,”
New York Times
, March 3, 1991, p. E7.
83
Darrell Tarasewicz, “Study: MIT Rejects Some Top Academic Achievers,”
The Tech
, December 2, 1988, p. 1.
84
Ibid.
, pp. 1, 13.
85
Lawrence Feinberg, “Harvard: The Best, Not the Brightest?”
Washington Post Book World
, November 19, 1989, p. R13.
86
Robert Klitgaard,
Choosing Elites
, pp. 23-26.
87
Ibid.
, p. 30.
88
Ibid.
, p. 31.
89
Quoted in Lawrence Feinberg, “Harvard: The Best, Not the Brightest?”
Washington Post Book World
, November 19, 1989, p. R13.
90
Robert Klitgaard,
Choosing Elites
, p. 133.
91
Ibid.
, pp. 132-153.