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Cost Estimate Of A Promise Scholarship Program For The City Of Jacksonville, Illinois, George Erickcek
Cost Estimate Of A Promise Scholarship Program For The City Of Jacksonville, Illinois, George Erickcek
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Conclusion: Looking To The Future, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Conclusion: Looking To The Future, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
[Excerpt] A number of important themes emerge from the chapters in Governing Academia. First, decentralization gives individual units—be they university campuses within a state system, colleges within a university, or departments within a college—an incentive to act in their own best interests, but less of an incentive to work toward the common good. As Heller points out, at the level of a state system, decentralization of control may lead to wasteful overlap between campuses. As Wilson shows, decentralized budgeting in the form of responsibility center management models may cause units not to maximize the quality of the education they are …
Estimation Of The Cost Of An Oregon Promise, George A. Erickcek
Estimation Of The Cost Of An Oregon Promise, George A. Erickcek
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This report offers an estimate of the cost of a statewide scholarship program for the State of Oregon that has a similar program structure as the existing Kalamazoo Promise. It is assumed that the proposed Oregon scholarship program would begin in the fall of 2013, and the full cost of the scholarship would not occur until 2016 when four years of scholarship-eligible students are enrolled in college. This report includes estimates on the scholarship costs, as well as, costs associated with administering the scholarship program.