1. Blue Ribbon Task Force
on State Higher
Education Reform
Memo
To: Task Force Members
From: Dale A. Brill, Chair
CC: Public File (www.slideshare.net/FLHigherEd)
Date: 6/8/2012
Re: Reading Materials
The titles and links below are offered as a recommended reading list to assist with the early focus on contextual
understanding of the issues facing the Task Force. I've organized the suggested materials by our sub-committee structure.
Where noted, I am still waiting for permissions to reprint and distribute hard copies for articles/chapters not available by
linking to the sources via the internet.
TUITION FLEXIBILIITY/FUNDING
Article: "Why Does Tuition Go Up? Because Taxpayer Support Goes Down"
Link: http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Does-Tuition-Go-Up-/131372/
Chapter: The Causes and Consequences of Public College Tuition Inflation by Michael Mumper and Melissa L. Freeman
Link: http://faculty.adams.edu/~mfreeman/ch62.pdf
GOVERNANCE
Article: "Are the States and Public Higher Education Striking a New Bargain" by David W. Breneman
Link: http://agb.org/sites/agb.org/files/u3/Breneman.pdf
Report: "College 2.0: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Reforming Higher Education"
Link: http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/entrepreneurial_approach_to_higher_ed_reform.pdf
ACCOUNTABILITY
Article/Chapter: Accountability Policies: Directions Old and New by William Zumeta and Alicia Kinne.
Link: http://evans.washington.edu/files/Zumeta_Kinne_Accountability_Policies.pdf
Article: Creative Paths to Boosting Academic Productivity
Link: http://www.humboldt.edu/president/sites/president/files/William_Massy-
Creative_Paths_to_Boosting_Academic_Productivity-Markup.pdf
GENERAL
Report: State Spending on Higher Education (State Policy Report), May 2012
Status: Permission to reprint and distribute requested.
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