“ In the fall and spring semesters, universities are effectively a cartel. Students are in the same position as New York restaurants looking for trash haulers when the Mafia ran that show. If you’re a student at Anywhere U*, and you want to take a biology course, you can’t go to another school to take it. Well maybe, if you can make some special arrangement, and the Provost isn’t going to pull you aside to have a chat about kneecaps and baseball bats. But to a great extent, each school is the company store. Then, in the heat of summer, the cartel melts, and higher ed becomes a free market. Students can shop around, while schools scramble to compete and offer what the market demands.”
Montclair SocioBlog on summer school economies.
Source: montclairsoci.blogspot.com
