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11 Dec 2014
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The Cost of Higher Ed: How Changing Staffing and Compensation Impact Tuition

Colleges and universities increasingly rely on part-time faculty to meet instructional demands and rein in costs, but that hasn’t led to lower tuitions for students.

In this video interview, Donna Desrochers, a researcher at AIR, explains how rising benefit costs and increased hiring for other types of positions has undercut those savings and what that means for rising college tuitions. Desrochers is the co-author of the report by the Delta Cost Project at AIR called Labor Intensive or Labor Expensive? Changing Staffing and Compensation Patterns in Higher Education.

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Delta Cost Project: Trends in College Spending

AIR is working with the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability to examine a rarely studied aspect of higher education finance: how colleges and universities spend money.

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Labor Intensive or Labor Expensive? Changing Staffing and Compensation Patterns in Higher Education

Skyrocketing college tuitions and trillion-dollar student loan debt have put college and university spending in the spotlight. "Labor Intensive or Labor Expensive? Changing Staffing and Compensation Patterns in Higher Education," a report by the Delta Cost Project at AIR, finds that colleges and universities increasingly rely on part-time faculty to meet instructional demands and rein in costs, but rising benefit costs and increased hiring for other types of positions have undercut those savings.
Topic: 
Postsecondary Education, School Finance

Further Reading

  • Report: Colleges Trim Costs by Hiring Part-Time Faculty But Savings Undercut by Increases in Benefits Costs and Hiring of Non-Instructional Staff
  • Increased Reliance on Part-Time College Faculty
  • College Choices and Consequences
  • Labor Intensive or Labor Expensive? Changing Staffing and Compensation Patterns in Higher Education
  • Trends in College Spending: 2001–2011
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