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College costs

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• Education -- Finance
• Universities and colleges -- Finance

• College costs -- Law and legislation
• College costs -- United States

• College education costs
• Student expenditures

• FIRE's Guide to Student Fees, Funding, and Legal Equality on Campus (c2003), by Jordan Lorence (PDF files with commentary at thefire.org)

• Ripoff 101: How the Publishing Industry's Practices Needlessly Drive Up Textbook Costs (second edition, 2005), by Kate Rube, contrib. by Merriah Fairchild (PDF with commentary at maketextbooksaffordable.org)
• Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks (2004), by Merriah Fairchild (PDF at Michigan)
• Collaboration, Technology, and Outsourcing Initiatives in Higher Education: A Literature Review, by Tessa Kaganoff (PDF at rand.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm our Children (c2006), ed. by Eric A. Hanushek (PDF with commentary at Stanford)

• The Class of 2014: Preserving Access to California Higher Education, by George S. Park and Robert J. Lempert (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Breaking the Social Contract: The Fiscal Crisis in California Higher Education, by Roger Benjamin and Stephen J. Carroll (PDF files at rand.org)

• Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security (c2012), by National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Higher Education and Workforce (multiple formats with commentary at NAP)

• Financing Postsecondary Education: The Federal Role, by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)
• Education and the New Economy: A Policy Planning Exercise, by Cathleen Stasz, James Chiesa, and William Schwabe (PDF at rand.org)

• Pacesetters in Innovation (annual; 1965-1969), by United States Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education (full serial archives)

• Bond Sales for Public School Purposes, by National Center for Education Statistics (partial serial archives)

• Quality in Student Financial Aid Programs: A New Approach (1993), ed. by Ronald S. Fecso (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Debts, Job Choices, and Financial Burden: Educational Debts at Nine American Law Schools (Washington: Association of American Law Schools, 1991), by David L. Chambers (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• Financing Postsecondary Education: The Federal Role, by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)

• International Education in the New Global Era: Proceedings of a National Policy Conference on the Higher Education Act, Title VI, and Fulbright-Hays Programs, ed. by John N. Hawkins, Carlos Manuel Haro, Miriam A. Kazanjian, Gilbert W. Merkx, and David Wiley (PDF files at UCLA)

• Quality in Student Financial Aid Programs: A New Approach (1993), ed. by Ronald S. Fecso (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Debts, Job Choices, and Financial Burden: Educational Debts at Nine American Law Schools (Washington: Association of American Law Schools, 1991), by David L. Chambers (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018), by Kenneth J. Saltman (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Where's the Money Gone? Changes in the Level and Composition of Education Spending (Washington: Economic Policy Institute, c1995), by Richard Rothstein and Karen Hawley Miles (PDF with commentary at epi.org)
• Private Wealth and Public Education (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970), by John E. Coons, William H. Clune, and Stephen D. Sugarman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Rankings and Estimates, by National Education Association of the United States (partial serial archives)

• Big Business and the American University (New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1966), by Bettina Aptheker (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• Dethroning Historical Reputations: Universities, Museums and the Commemoration of Benefactors (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2018), ed. by Jill Pellew and Lawrence Goldman (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• For Profit Higher Education: The Failure to Safeguard the Federal Investment and Ensure Student Success (official commitee print, 4 volumes; 2012), by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (PDF and text at senate.gov and fdlp.gov)
• The National Student Education Fund (Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1982), by David Asman
  • PDF and HTML at heritage.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Preparing for the Workplace: Charting a Course for Federal Postsecondary Training Policy (1994), ed. by Janet S. Hansen (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Class of 2014: Preserving Access to California Higher Education, by George S. Park and Robert J. Lempert (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• UW Struggle: When a State Attacks its University (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Chuck Rybak (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Andrew C. Comrie (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Andrew C. Comrie (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Losing Ground: A National Status Report on the Affordability of American Higher Education (2002), by National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (HTML at highereducation.org)

• Financing Postsecondary Education: The Federal Role, by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)

• Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports (2010), by Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics (PDF and Javascript-dependent HTML at knightcommission.org)