Inside Higher Ed: “The Potential (and Limits) of Outsourcing”
Outsourcing is a growing trend in higher education, but concerns about control over quality and a “loss of identity, community, culture and collegiality” may limit its use as a tool to cut colleges’ costs (and in turn their prices), says a new report.
The report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, “Is Outsourcing Part of the Solution to the Higher Education Cost Dilemma: A Preliminary Examination,” is just that: a review of the relatively small amount of existing information about the extent to which colleges and universities turn to outside vendors to do tasks traditionally done by employees.
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