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Publication Date: 2012
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Tuition Revenues and Enrollment Demand: The Case of Southern Utah University. Professional File. Number 124, Spring 2012
Craft, R. Kim; Baker, Joe G.; Myers, Brent E.; Harraf, Abe
Association for Institutional Research (NJ1)
This paper details our experience with successfully increasing tuition revenues at Southern Utah University and provides a case study in how economic research and the politics of tuition policy combined to increase university revenue with stakeholder buy-in. Our success was based on three key factors: (a) we had a key administrator who advocated economic modeling and a positive basis for tuition policy; (b) we obtained empirical evidence of the effects of the proposed tuition increase by estimating an enrollment demand model; and (c) we were able to obtain stakeholder buy-in. Following the largest tuition increase in over 30 years, enrollment growth has remained strong and revenues have increased. (Contains 7 tables, 1 figure and 22 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Evidence, Economic Research, Tuition, Educational Finance, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Management, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends, Case Studies, Politics of Education, School Policy, Performance Factors, Higher Education, Change Strategies, Organizational Change, Educational Development, College Administration, Models, Partnerships in Education, Stakeholders
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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