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September 19, 2003
The Costs of Education
The Invisible Adjunct points to an excellent op-ed article in the New York Times on higher ed costs [free registration with NYtimes.com required] by one of my favorite thinkers, Stanley Fish. Fish writes:
If there is a crisis in college costs it has not been caused by price-gouging or bureaucratic incompetence on the part of universities; a better analogy would be the mass circulation magazines of the 1950's like Collier's and Look, which folded at the very point when they had more readers than ever. The problem was that production costs far outpaced the revenues from subscriptions and advertisers, and every new reader actually cost them money.
Well worth the read.
I also heartily recommend Fish's collection of essays, There's No Such Thing As Free Speech (And It's A Good Thing, Too), which I just recently re-read.
Posted September 19, 2003 06:11 PM