Paying for graduate school, juggling loans, assistantships, and grants to meet costs is probably as complex as any budget that a professional will have to tackle. Some advice on financing graduate school is provided. (MLW)

Discusses major characteristics of the Reagan Administration's proposal to make National Direct Student Loan repayments contingent on borrowers' income. Summarizes alternative repayment schemes and legislative action to conduct an income-contingent demonstration project for 1987 through 1991. The proposal shifts loan program costs to students and…

Entrepreneurship is relatively new as a subject of formal study in universities. Its teaching can be traced back to 1947. Since then, the subject has caught on, and in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a veritable explosion in such offerings at universities in the United States. The subject came to Europe rather late, but here, too, courses and…

This study, assumes the significance of socioeconomic status (SES) or input factors in explaining achievement, and considers the impact of other "process" variables, that is, factors over which schools have some control. Using the Texas Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) data, it examines these variables to determine the…

California's 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education promised all students a chance to pursue a baccalaureate degree by guaranteeing a place at one of the public 4-year institutions for all students who successfully fulfill a minimum set of requirements at a community college. However, capacity constraints in the state's public colleges and…