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Breaking the Social Contract
The Fiscal Crisis in U.S. Higher Education
This report offers the results of a two-year study by the Commission on National Investment in Higher Education. Established by the Council for Aid to Education in 1994, the Commission was asked to examine the financial health of America's higher education sector. Our central finding is that the present course of higher education--in which costs and demand are rising much faster than funding--is unsustainable. Therefore, we call upon the nation to address the fiscal crisis now, before millions of Americans are denied access to a college education.
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Contents
To Our Readers HTML
Overview
The Threat from Within
Dimensions of the Fiscal Crisis
Institutional Roadblocks
Recommendations
Supporting Documents
Members of the Commission on National Investment in Higher Education HTML
About the Council for Aid to Education HTML
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