Rising Tide Internal Salary Equity Study for the University of Maine

Internal Salary Equity Study for the University of Maine Report that investigated whether there was evidence of gender discrimination in pay for faculty at the University of Maine in the 2011-12 academic year

New directions for institutional research

Publ. comme no 117, spring 2003 de la revue New directions for institutional researchBibliogr. à la fin des textesIndex: p. 115-11

New directions for institutional research

Publ. comme no 115, fall 2002 de la revue New directions for institutional researchBibliogr. à la fin des textesIndex: p. 105-11

Estimated Profit: A Look at the Excess Revenues of Private Four-Year Nonprofit Postsecondary Institutions

In this study, we use institution-level data for the period 2004 to 2016 from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to examine the excess revenues of private, four-year nonprofit institutions. We present data on the magnitude of excess revenues for these institutions over this period, examine how excess revenues are associated with different types of private institutions, and how within-institution excess revenues are affected by changes in time-varying factors, such as their size, selectivity, revenue structure, and expense distribution. We find that across most years in our sample, private, four-year nonprofits averaged double-digit excess returns. The results show that variations over time in excess revenues are related to a number of factors, including institution size, yield rates, net tuition revenue, and tuition discount rates

Using Panel Data to Examine Legislative Demand for Higher Education

Empirical studies of legislative demand for higher education, using cross-sectional date for all 50 states, have not found much evidence that economic and demographic factors influence state higher education appropriations. This study uses panel data on state appropriations from 1982 through 1996 to examine the sensitivity of the results from the legislative demand model to changes in statistical methodology employed. The results show that the signs and significance levels of variables used in the legislative demand model vary widely when ordinary least squares, fixed effects and two-stage least squares are used. In particular, after controlling for state effects in the panel data, a number of the expected relationships between state appropriations and both economic and demographic factors emerge. There is also some evedence that K-12 education is a significant competing interest group for higher education, and that the legislative demand functions for higher education vary by geographical region and whether funding formulae are used to help determine higher education appropriations.

New directions for institutional research

Publ. comme no 132, winter 2006 de la revue New directions for institutional researchIndexBibliogr. à la fin des texte