Public colleges have become aggressive and sophisticated fund-raisers and feel it is time the corporations notice that public institutions educate a large share of the corporate workforce and conduct research vital to business. At the same time, private colleges have had a decrease in corporate donations. (MSE)

Private contributions to colleges and universities appear to have rebounded from changes in the tax laws and the crash on Wall Street. Both private and public institutions recorded healthy increases in total support, but the share of contributions going to public universities expanded more rapidly than that going to private institutions. (MLW)