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U.S. Higher Education Effectiveness

Steven Brint, Charles T. Clotfelter
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2016, 2 (1) 2-37; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.01
Steven Brint
aDistinguished professor of sociology and public policy at the University of California
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Charles T. Clotfelter
bZ. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy, professor of economics and law, and associate dean for academic programs in the Sanford School at Duke University
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vol. 2 no. 1 2-37
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.01

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  • Published online April 1, 2016.

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Copyright © 2016 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. We would like to thank Cynthia E. Carr, Kevin Curwin, and Sarah R. K. Yoshikawa for research assistance. Direct correspondence to: Steven Brint at brint{at}ucr.edu, 1100 Hinderaker Hall, UC Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521; Charles T. Clotfelter at charles.clotfelter{at}duke.edu, 178 Rubenstein Hall, Sanford School of Public Policy, 201 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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    • WHAT DO POLICYMAKERS WANT FROM HIGHER EDUCATION?
    • THE AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM AND ITS CHALLENGES
    • HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND LINKS TO THE LABOR MARKET
    • ACCESS, COMPLETION, AND EQUITY
    • PRODUCTION OF RESEARCH AND NEW DOCTORATES
    • POLICIES TO IMPROVE SYSTEM-LEVEL EFFECTIVENESS
    • ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
    • CLASSROOM EFFECTIVENESS
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