A recent report from Michigan's Mackinac Center asserts that there is little or no relationship between student achievement and marginal increases to what the report characterizes as the already "high" levels of spending in that state. Yet the report never substantiates its assertion that present spending levels are high, on average, or…

After receiving his PhD in 1970, the author has spent almost 30 years conducting research on the economics of higher education, chairing faculty budget committees at Cornell, serving as a Cornell vice president and then as a trustee of both Cornell and SUNY, and being associated with innumerable national commissions and higher education…

College basketball's March Madness has come at a time when one prominent coach's salary has been held up for inspection. Apparently, the fact that the $1.6-million annual income of the University of Connecticut's Jim Calhoun makes him the highest-paid public employee in his state has rankled some people. Or are they more upset that he was caught…

A combination of destructive trends in higher education--shrinking state budgets, stagnant student aid, the growth of corporate-style management, the overuse and exploitation of contingent faculty, increasing workloads and attacks on academic freedom--is weakening the educational integrity and professionalism of American colleges and universities.…

Financial inequality is growing in U.S. higher education. In this report, the author observes increasing differences between the endowments of rich and poor institutions, between the salaries of college and university presidents and their faculties, between the salaries of athletic coaches and professors, and between well and poorly compensated…

The 2005-6 executive compensation controversy at the University of California has been explained as the result of a massive breach of compliance with the University's compensation policies by the Office of the President (UCOP). For more than a decade, the explanation goes, UCOP failed to comply with its own compensation policies, embodied in the…

Teachers are in most cases public employees. So the public at large, in theory, gets to decide how they are paid. The commission model variants of which have been proposed for some time, would involve compensating teachers for the value they provide to their school's operation, that is, the degree to which they educate their students.…

Despite nearly two decades of commissions, analyses, op-eds and speeches, a series of court rulings, legislative changes, and the expenditure of billions of dollars, Ohio still does not have a school funding system that delivers the results the Buckeye State needs. Student achievement still remains low for the globalizing world that young Ohioans…

Discusses issues important to development of quality child care staff: salaries, working conditions, standards, and status. Discusses use of salary surveys, conferences, campaigns, organizations, and legislation to bring public attention to the compensation issue. Notes current research and future issues to be addressed. (SH)

In a personal commentary, the authors of an article published in the Journal of School Finance, "Forecasting the Salaries of Professional Personnel," respond to criticism of their article by Dr. James Fox. (MD)

Describes the events leading up to the conference resolution, provides the text of the resolution itself, explaining the purpose behind each of its statements, and urges teachers to promote the resolution by voting for it at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in March of 1987. (SRT)

An International Labour Organization report finds a strong correlation between reductions in overall public spending--often the result of structural adjustment policies--and reduced spending on education. (Author/JOW)

The essays in this collection provide contrasting points of view on a number of community college issues that have become more pressing during periods of economic constraint. The volume contains: (1) "Part-Time Faculty: The Value of the Resource," by William R. C. Munsey; (2) "Part-Time Faculty, Full-Time Problems," by David Hartleb and William…

Tenure for faculty in universities and other institutions of higher education is reexamined. Originally intended to protect intellectual freedom, tenure currently places a financial burden on institutions subject to dwindling financial resources. Colleges and universities are encouraged to replace tenure with a year-by-year contract system. (LMO)

Issues arising from the increasing use of part-time college faculty as an institutional cost-management strategy are discussed, including implications for faculty joining unions, tenure, governance and administrative hierarchy, faculty workload, quality of education, and public confidence in higher education. The trend is seen as ultimately…