Recent economic research suggests that colleges siphon off a significant portion of federal education aid rather than lowering costs to students

The dramatic rise in college tuition costs is due to the ways in which they organize and allocate resources--not lavish university facilities and extra student services. The real levers for increasing efficiency include rethinking student-faculty ratios, eliminating under-enrolled programs, and trimming unnecessary administrative positions.

Vance Fried explains what decision makers should know to rein in the cost of collage

During two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members discussed the latest in financial regulation issues. At a luncheon briefing following these sessions, SFRC members gave several statements and answered questions.

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) education expert Andrew P. Kelly's influential research on increasing transparency has covered the truth behind higher education disclosure laws, the real price of college, and the impact of information on choice in higher education.

Community colleges are subsidized through direct state and local government appropriations and through student grant programs. Every student who drops out represents an investment loss by the taxpayers in that student's uncompleted education.

Richard Vedder finds, in his new book, that college tuition costs are deployed in an efficient manner and are not sustainable in the long term.

In this book, economist Richard Vedder examines the causes of the college tuition crisis and explores ways to reverse this alarming trend.