Insight, Issues & Research: The state and future of higher education

The first installment of the ILR School's new webcast series featuring ILR faculty perspectives on pressing work and world issues was aired on November 10th 2015. Hosted by Kevin F. Hallock, ILR’s Kenneth F. Kahn Dean, the webcast featured the work and insights of labor economist Professor Ronald Ehrenberg, regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on higher education reform and finance.

Ehrenberg will examined some of the key questions confronting higher education, including:

Why tuition keeps rising and the future of public higher education
The disparity in access to higher education and degrees earned
the role of technology and its future impact
The shift from the social role of higher education and the future of the liberal arts.

Background:
Ronald G. Ehrenberg is Cornell’s Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. Ehrenberg is a member of the State University of New York Board of Trustees and a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, the TIAA-CREF Institute, the American Educational Research Association and the Labor and Employment Relations Association. The Society of Labor Economists gave him its Jacob Mincer Award for lifetime contributions to the economics field. Ehrenberg is the author of "Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much" and the co-author of "Modern Labor Economics," which is considered the leading textbook in the field.