The extent to which colleges and universities provide opportunities for students from the most economically disadvantaged families is an important indicator of the potential for U.S. higher education to promote intergenerational mobility. Yet the measurement of "opportunity" for low-income students at the level of individual colleges and…

This consultation document proposes a method for allocating the additional resources for rewarding, retaining, and developing staff in higher education in England, announced as part of the Government's Year 2000 spending review. The Government set aside 50 million pounds for the financial year 2001-2002, rising to 110 million pounds in 2002-2003,…

An informal survey of professional job listings in college marketing suggests that community colleges and small colleges are the first to embrace marketing. Advertisements for institutions in the northeastern states are most common. The most prevalent organizational structure for marketing, however, does not correspond to the most effective model…

The ways that selected companies are managing and structuring their responses to the needs of higher education for financial support and cooperative programs are described. According to General Foods Corporation Chairman James L. Ferguson, the academic world faces the problem of maintaining its standards in light of the decrease of federal…