Instructional Spending Per Student

PengsPhils
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:38:30 +0000

So when are we all going to address the elephant in the room that spending per student likely does not correlate at all with student academic experience? Endowments allow for a lot of research for some schools, new facilities and expansion for others, and can go many other places as well. Unless we have budgets to show what is actually being spent on, this is all pointless.

Here’s a question for people here: Would faculty average salaries by major be a better or worse stat? Does pay of professors correlate to teaching ability? If not this stat, exactly what part of endowment spending per student is significant for an academic experience?