April 12, 2017
A report analyzing value in higher education, coauthored by Kim Dancy, was covered by Inside Higher Ed:
Roughly two-thirds of undergraduates are paying more for college than is recommended by a common benchmark for affordability. That's the top-line finding of a new report by higher education experts from three think tanks with a range of political perspectives, the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute and New America. The report attempts to answer the question of for whom is college affordable, and why?
Its authors used a federal data set from 2012 that includes the tuition rates and fees, room, board and other expenses that full-time students nationwide spent to attend college. The researchers then compared that data to an affordability measure, dubbed the Rule of 10, that Lumina Foundation created in 2015.