EDHE 70263 Finance in Higher Education
Prerequisites: Admission to the Higher Ed doctoral program or permission of the instructor. This is a graduate level course designed to show the complexity of finance in higher education. The course will focus on the economics and finance of higher education. The perspective of the course will be from the point of view of senior administrators who would typically have responsibility for finance or some financial functions in an institution but would not be a senior financial officer, i.e. dean, provost, etc. The plan of this course is to develop new understandings of the nature of higher education finance by exploring financial challenges, what can be done to negotiate them, and how financial decisions impact educational quality, equity, accountability, and sustainability. The course will explore topics of financial policy, government support of higher education, financial aid, and economics of higher education, human capital theory, and privatization in higher education.