The past summer has been marked by reports on the way the University of Texas handles tax dollars. The latest comes from Marc Musick, the associate dean for student affairs in UT’s College of Liberal Arts. It finds that in the area of efficiency, the university “excels.”
One noticeable difference between the new report and others that have sparked controversy recently — notably those of Richard Vedder and Rick O’Donnell, both of whom criticized the university for allegedly low faculty productivity — is its scope. “Most of the talk has really focused on UT,” Musick says, “not about how efficient we are compared to other schools.”
In preparing his report, which was released today, Musick gathered publicly available data on 120 public institutions of higher education for the sake of comparison with UT. Then he set about to answer a basic question: How much are taxpayers getting for their buck? “We basically calculate how much we get in revenue and, on the basis of how good our graduation rates are and how many faculty we employ, how good are we compared to other schools,” he says.
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