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Planning for Higher Education Journal

Improving Data to Tackle the Higher Education “Cost Disease”

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From Volume 38 Number 3 | April–June 2010
By Jane V. Wellman
Planning Types: Resource Planning

The key question for analysts and policy makers alike is whether the “cost disease” is truly incurable and, if it cannot be absolutely cured, whether it can be treated symptomatically to mitigate the root causes of spending increases. In seeking answers, it will be particularly important to identify the policy levers, both within institutions and by states, that could influence cost behaviors, including the types of measures or accountability strategies that might help tackle costs.

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