Funding

George Roche, the author of this book, is the president of Hillsdale College, a school that has fought tooth and nail to keep the damaging hands of the federal government out of their institution. Roche wrote this book to expose why a school should try and avoid federal intervention through funding. The reason, quite simply, is the corruption and loss of control that the school will suffer as a result of this intervention.

The amount of information this book throws at the reader is absolutely astounding. By piling on statistic after statistic, Roche shows how corrupt our system of higher education has become. These statistics show how deeply in debt universities have become by greedily sucking up federal money, and then expanding their programs, facilities, and tuition discounts and financial aid programs. When funding is reduced due to a lackluster economy, schools are finding themselves in serious economic trouble. Many have to make massive cutbacks in programs and faculty to stay afloat. Some smaller schools have had to merge to survive. Some have closed their doors. Roche attributes all of these problems to the reliance of universities on federal funding. Roche shows how schools have become so dependent on funding by tracing a history of incremental encroachment by the government into education. Beginning with the Morrill Act through the G.I. Bill and the 1992 Educational Acts, Roche reveals a sinister plan to use federal monies to exert control over education. This control is expressed in such travesties as Affirmative Action, diversity studies, multiculturalism, and other infections that have sapped higher education of it's primary mission: educating America's youth.

Roche also examines how athletics has grown so powerful that it not only sucks up funds that should be going to academics, but that it is also loaded with corruption that undermines the academic potential of its athletes. He also exposes how weak the administration is in dealing with faculty and students. Roche explains that the president of the university is reduced to a fundraiser, and that any attempt by officials to make decisions that may have an effect on academics are often shouted down by faculty or student groups. Most college presidents last about three years before they are forced to move on in the face of opposition from their own schools. This is in contrast to a time when an administrator would stay for an entire career and actually be able to shape the vision of a school.

Roche uses mountains of sources to make his arguments. While this is an effective way of waging his battle, it also serves to make some of the reading extremely boring. I have a tendency to glaze over a bit when confronted with statistics, so some parts of the book were tough to get through. It is worth sticking it out, since the last part of the book is when Roche lambasts all of the politically correct junk that academe has been trying to stuff down our throats for years. Just try and read the list of "research" books that scholars have published over the years without laughing!

A good book, if somewhat dated. Worth reading.

Roche gets on his soapbox and writes a passionate and powerful book blaming too much governmental intervention for most of the problems facing higher education today. Extremely conservative and proud of it, he bashes political correctness, affirmative action, and other fun and controversial topics. While it's hard to swallow all aspects of his EXTREMELY broad theory, he does make a strong case for it that will make you stop and think. It's a fascinating book, a surprisingly easy read!

Tuition Rising is serious disappointment. The entire book is a long-winded justification of why college cost so much. Instead of exploring on a few fundamental social or governmental changes affecting college tuition, the author simply discusses in-depth each expense that schools have. For example, there is a whole chapter on parking and transportation, and another chapter just about cooling systems.

While Ehrenberg rambles on about the minutia of college finances, he never really explains why colleges' expenses rise at a much faster rate than other sectors of the economy. Many businesses must pay for transportation, cooling, and everything else that colleges do, do not have skyrocketing prices.

Tuition Rising does not ever mention the possibility that government financial aid programs have given universities the green light to spend excessively, since many students can get loans or grants to cover the cost increases. College costs are no longer subject to free-market economics, which generally causes prices to be low. In fact, Ehrenberg thinks the problem of college affordability can be alleviate with more federal financial aid!

This book is at best a boring compilation of college expenditures. Worse yet, Tuition Rising makes high tuition increases seem unavoidable, or even justified.

Ehrenberg's insight is amazing and the book is full of important and interesting information. As a parent of a college student, I found the book to be very helpful in explaining why tuition continues to increase at an incredible rate, why college administrators make the decisions they do and how tuition relates (or doesn't) to the quality of higher education. It is a wonderful resource for parents, students and educators, anyone who is interested in higher education. Kudos to Ehrenberg on a job well done!

As a high school guidance counselor I can see the immediate value of Mr. Ehrenberg's book. In fact, it is the best book on the subject which I have read. It should also be of tremendous value to parents of college bound children and to college administrators. The language is highly accessible and the author makes his points clearly and succinctly. This book is a welcome addition to the field, and perhaps the very best of its kind.

As I initially thumbed through this book, I had the normal range of emotions that one would expect: dismay, shock, paranoia, dread, confusion, and bewilderment. As you may have guessed, I am a recent graduate from university, and those emotions are central to any recent grad who is attempting to cope with the reality of... reality. Dr. Mohamadi has provided me with a method to deal with my full range of emotions, and he has done so in fewer pages than the bible. Yes, I said the Bible. It is also a better read.

Though Dr. Mohamadi does seem to digress occasionally by discussing countries like Yemen, overall this is a solid first effort. If possible, I would have awarded this book with 6 stars.

This upstart author has seen his stock swell since his most recent book was released. Despite a poor Amazon.com sales ranking, Kaplan has decided to push Guide to Fellowships and Grants 1999 into a second round of publishing! Indeed, this text is pithy and pregnant with detailed information regarding fellowships and grants ranging in emphasis from Caribbean medican fellowships to research grants dealing with alternative lifestyle studies (a personal favorite!) I just can't get enough of Mr. Mohamadi, and I eagerly await his next thrust into the literary "back-door" of study AIDS. Cheers!

A thorough, methodical and painstaking look into the world of fellowiships. Any good library must contain this authoritative masterpiece. I look forward to future works by Mr. Mohamadi.

There are excellent guidelines in this book. If you purchase it, you will be getting good information except for one very important area which appears to be completely overlooked. In today's grant market, you must know how to design good outcome measures. The concepts of goals and objectives come into play here (and are addressed in the book), but the buzz words are "outcome measures". I wish the authors had included a chapter or two on designing outcomes measures for both project oriented grants and for general operating grants (which is by far the harder to design).

The information here is good. It is easy to understand and, from my experience as a full time grant writer, right on the mark. Just know you will have to attend a workshop or find another place to learn about outcome measures.

In recently conducted grant workshops for teachers this guide was most helpful.For future workshops-- for educators applying for grants in their field, another title might be more appropriate and targeted to needs of educators. Educators usually have an RFP in hand and this book is helpful to find funding ....which isn't always the educator's focus at that moment.

I am an intermediate grantseeker who hoped to find a book that would assist me in further honing my writing. This book did just that. It is concise yet substantial and provided me with a fresh approach that will be useful for years to come. The language is intelligent (the authors steer clear of trite, 'inspirational' language), clear, and honest. I suggest this book for anyone interested in the grantseeking process.

This book, while helpful and a good start is a little too simplistic to be really useful. I was just expecting more from the book than I really got. While it makes writing a grant look easy, unfortunately there is no real meat to the book. I was somewhat disappointed in the book when I received it the other day. However, it does have some great lists of words that are useful for writing; to better convey your meanings and it does have some good graphic organizers to help you plan.

Teachers and administrators around the country are using this book as their #1 source for grant writing. It really works. In the past few weeks, I have heard from teachers who got [$$$] for a teen mentoring program and [$$$] for classroom book sets and field trips. One elementary school got 12 grants totaling almost [$$$] using the strategies. The money is there and this book can take you there!

Teachers will find this book easy to use and full of hints for writing a first grant or refining subsequent grants. I have both grant books that this writer did and they have helped my school to get dollars that we needed. A must have!

The topic of school reform and paying teachers as professional is not a new topic. The proposals put forth in the book written by Allen and Cosby are fairly detailed and generous to educational reform. Many of the proposals, such as the infusion of technology into the curriculum, higher pay for teachers, etc., sound like current practices within Edison Schools, Inc. However, current views would include that there never seems to be money set aside for education, and local and state legislatures have been cutting educational funding over the past few years. I have doubts that the amount of funding required for a project of this magnitude could actually be undertaken.

After additional research on this book, I would like to note that it was published in October 2000, over 1½ years ago. The website listed in the book for further updates, support of this project, etc., lists that nearly every one of its pages is under constructions. Readers are not able to read survey results or add their own opinions concerning this project. Is this a legitimate proposal or just a dream? With out follow through for this text, I am inclined to believe that this is not a legitimate proposal developed by Allen and Cosby.

Drs. Allen and Cosby have written a magnificent book detailing a workable answer to our school system plight. Now it is up to us to take the challenge. Do we understand how important is it to truly educate our youth? Are we ready to take the challenge or are we just going to say yes its nice, or too much work and just let things fall by the wayside. All parents should read this book and join together to demand a change to our schools so the children of today will be the well-educated leaders of the future.

The correct title is:The Global Education Industry : Lessons from Private Education in Developing Countries (Studies in Education, 7) by James Tooley

American readers may be surprised to learn that there is only one private university throughout the length and breadth of the United Kindom, and that is the University of Buckingham. I draw readers attention to this fact more to highlight the paucity of public policy in this area than anything else and to set out the basis of the review that follows.

The Global Education Industry is the summary of some of the results obtained from research carried out for the International Finance Corporation, which is the private sector funding subsidiary of the World Bank Group. Published here in conjunction with the London based, think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, this book is a major contributor to the ongoing debate across the industrialised world concerning the proper level of involvement of the state in education.

Education in England and Wales at least (Scotland has it's own educational sytem) was once the province of the private sector both charitable and for profit. This has been accounted in tremendous detail by E.G. West in his masterly study, Education and the state. Suffice it to say that one of the main, somewhat surprising conclusions of the book was that lower income groups were of the mind that education was a good well worth paying for and contributed significant sums so that their children coul better themselves. Indeed there is a significant tradition in England and Wales of the poor bettering themselves through study (see Rose, J 'The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes). The type of education provided was not good enough fpor the ruling classes who, in 1870, passed the Foster Act which introduced state education though the back door into the country.

Today, there is a small but flourishing private sector still in elementary and secondary education in England and Wales serving some seven per cent of the population to which ordinary people will send their children, often undergoing severe sacrifices to do so, but mostly the pupils are middle and upper incomes. The vast majority of the education sector through a variety of agencies is under the rigid control of the state.

This book, although pointing to the experience of private education in developing countries is primarily aimed at policy makers in the industrialised world, and in particular, Britain. It sets out clearly and categorically the case for the private provision of education in whatever sector that one chooses to select and shows clearly and consistently how high quality education can be provided without the dead hand of the state forcing conformity, uniformity and bureaurcracy upon schools and universities. It highlights the innovative nature of those private sector inn areas of curriculum development and lesson delivery. The focus on the most efficient use of resources also allows for staff development without any cost for staff and students alike.

The Global Education Industry presents an opportunity to public policy makers to improve the supply of education in the so called Western world while freeing up the resources of the state to carry out it's basic functions. It is not an attack on the state sector but a presentation of what can and may be. No doubt this will be opposed by academics and educationalists who have enjoyed a warm and cosy, even lucrative, relationship with the state over many years and who'se minds are closed to the endless possibilities of the market. The book's contents however, tell another story.

The previous reveiwer hit the nail on the head. This essey collection does expose the greed and short-sighted planning at some of the most prestigous universities in the United States.
On the other hand, the contributers to this collection didn't address some huge issues. If the scholarly literature is incomplete in a sub-specialty of icthyology, does the university have an obligation to encourage future icthyologists knowing they might end up servers at Red Lobster? How do critics of useless degree programs respond to the point that some students want more then a meal ticket? Are financiers of student loans courting disaster knowing that the prospects for a career in Egyptology are nill?
None of these questions has a right or wrong answer. We need to explore all sides of the current economic crisis in many academic specialties.
My first job after graduation from a MPA program was guarding a scrap metal place in a bad part of town for $3.90 per hour. I didn't regret being a security guard with a MPA but regretted it was a weak MPA.

Even Allen Hale, co-descoverer of comet Hale-Bop couldn't find an academic job immediately after finishing a Ph.D in Astronomy!!!!
The Late Col.Sanders, once said,
"There aren't enough high school drop outs to hire all the college graduates."

A certain elite university boasts (literally) an endowment of $5.7 billion (yes, billion with a B)--or did as of Tuesday, 16 September; you should add a million or two per day to get the approximate sum on the day you read this. On that same date the university announced that it will embark on a $1 billion (with a B) program to renovate the buildings on its campus. Yet just eighteen months ago, this same anonymous university--by far the biggest employer in one of the most economically depressed cities in the nation--engaged in a no-holds-barred campaign to break the two unions that represent its nonacademic labor force. And just before that, the university crushed the latest effort by the graduate students' union, which was seeking, before anything else, simply to get the university to admit the self-evident truth that teaching assistants are employees and that, as such, they have the right to bargain collectively.

This institution fosters an extreme but not atypical example of the condition described in this book's subtitle. The academic labor force in the United States, from the celebrated professor to the undervalued custodian, faces an unprecedented crisis, a crisis deftly delineated in the seventeen essays of this book, roughly half of which focus on the labor struggles at the above-unnamed (but named in the book) elite university. That struggle brought support from labor's allies nationwide, but in the end it did little to change the workers' status from what frighteningly parallels--as Stephen Watt puts it in the book's most poignant metaphor--that of miners trapped in a "company town," where the perverted law of supply and demand means that the company supplies the work, so the company can demand whatever conditions are to its liking.

The book does not pretend to bipartisanship, and at times polemic detracts from persuasiveness. But the best of the essays--like Watt's, Kathy Newman's, and particularly Michael Bérubé's--back up their rousing calls to collective action with coolly logical evidence and solidly ordered argument. This is an important book for anyone who is concerned with the state of labor and/or higher education; these days, who can afford not to be?

This great book really helped me find the scholarships that are right for me! So many to choose from...

As a middle-class student trying to work his way through an education, I know first-hand that college tuition costs are incredibly out of whack with the income of the populous. By reading this book, not only did I receive insight on how to keep myself in school while slaving through the minimum-wage jungle, but also gave me hope. Knowing that I'm not alone helps tremendously, and gives me new strength to keep on going