Ch. 1. State preferences for higher education spending : a panel data analysis, 1977-2001 / Michael J. Rizzo
Ch. 2. Do tenured and tenure-track faculty matter? / Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Liang Zhang
Ch. 3. increasing use of adjunct instructor at public institutions : are we hurting students? / Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long
Ch. 4. effect of institutional funding cuts on baccalaureate graduation rates in public higher education / Gary L. Blose, John D. Porter and Edward C. Kokkelenberg
Ch. 5. effect of a changing financial context on the University of California / Gerald R. Kissler and Ellen Switkes
Ch. 6. Assessing public higher education in Georgia at the start of the twenty-first century / Christopher Cornwell and David B. Mustard
Ch. 7. Changing priorities and the evolution of public higher education finance in Illinois / F. King Alexander and Daniel Layzell
Ch. 8. Michigan public higher education : recent trends and policy considerations for the coming decade / Stephen L. DesJardins, Allison Bell and Iria Puyosa
Ch. 9. North Carolina's commitment to higher education access and affordability / Betsy E. Brown and Robert L. Clark
Ch. 10. State support for public higher education in Pennsylvania / Donald E. Heller
Ch. 11. changing accessibility, affordability, and quality of higher education in Texas / Lisa M. Dickson
Ch. 12. Higher tuition, higher aid, and the quest to improve opportunities for low-income students : the case of Virginia / Sarah Turner
Ch. 13. Public higher education in Washington State : aspirations are misaligned with fiscal structure and politics / William Zumeta
Ch. 14. Consequences of legacy of state disinvestment : plunging state support reduces access and threatens quality at University of Wisconsin system institutions / David W. Olien
Ch. 15. Why we won't see any public universities "going private" / John D. Wiley
Ch. 16. Concluding remarks / F. King Alexander.
