Robert Samuels

Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free: How to Decrease Cost and Increase Quality at American Universities Robert Samuels

Shows how research universities have begun to function as giant investment banks or hedge funds that spend money on athletics and administration while increasing tuition costs and actually lowering the quality of undergraduate education. In order to fight higher costs and lower quality, Samuels suggests, universities must reallocate these misused funds and concentrate on their core mission of instruction and related research.