Is the Golden Age of the Private Research University Over?

Change • May/June 2013 Ronald G. Ehrenberg (rge2@cornell.edu) is Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University, author of Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much (Harvard University Press, 2002), and director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI). CHERI receives financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Ehrenberg is grateful to the Foundation for its support. OVER?