The relationships between state government and private higher education are considered with emphasis on Ohio. It is noted that state colleges have received land and financial support from private sources and that there have been reciprocal arrangements of public support given to private colleges. These arrangements include different types of tax…

Various financing structures for nonformal education are presented, using examples from Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. Many resources of the formal education system can be used in the planning, coordination, and execution of nonformal education. The importance of community involvement and financial backing is stressed. (JA)

In view of the significant impact of television on children, the national leadership must work for increased production of high quality children's programs. Public and private actions are needed to generate both financial and nonfinancial incentives to encourage creativity in the television industry. (Author/MJL)

In addition to declining enrollments in the '80s, colleges and universities must reckon with decreased public funding, a lack of money for construction, and a possible loss of educational diversity. Public and private institutions must work "to promote better public policies." (Author/MLW)

Careful planning is considered absolutely necessary for a successful annual college fund campaign. Annual giving must have long-range plans to accomplish long-range goals. Keys to annual giving planning are seen as staffing, budgeting, prospect information, goal setting, leadership, communications, and coordination with the overall development…

Describes the success of Capital Partners for Education (CPE), a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk students by providing them with scholarships and mentors, who are mostly urban professionals. CPE targets average students who are failing or likely to drop out. Discusses CPE's activities and its expansion to provide year-round support. (AJL)

Discusses issues relating to the public interest regarding the National Information Infrastructure. Topics addressed include access, including access to the physical infrastructure and resources and access as a service provider; information rights, including privacy, intellectual property, freedom of speech, and government information; public…

Discusses Canada's evolving university-industry relationship, reviewing the need for increased industrial funding of universities and for capable graduates. Academic and industrial research overlap; therefore, for Canada to be a competitive industrial country, various vehicles must exist to bring together working scientists and engineers from…

In the context of rapid change in European higher education, particularly in the fiscal relationship between states and institutions and institutional demand for more autonomy, the situations of Sweden and Scotland are considered more closely. The paper concludes that the emerging search for nonstate funding and the handling of those revenues pose…

Throughout her lifetime Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville, the Countess of Warwick, contributed considerable energy and financial support to improving the education of poor and rural children, women, and laborers. Among her accomplishments were the establishment of a school for handicapped girls and a secondary agricultural and technical school for…

This report examines the nature of the corporate interest in education in American cities, and outlines what might be done to encourage future corporate activities supportive of urban education. The report is based on a review of literature and interviews with corporate, educational, and civic leaders in several large cities. Section one discusses…

School-business partnerships are flourishing across the country, but many schools and students are not being reached by these efforts. It is time now to look beyond the individual partnership programs and focus on systemwide issues in order to make the vast and fundamental improvements needed in public schools. Some corporate communities are…

A collection of 33 working papers for presentation at a research forum on the Constitution and the independent sector is presented. Thirteen sections cover: (1) the Constitution--"The Metapolitical Role of Voluntary Organizations in the United States" (Hall), "The Evolution of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations" (Hansmann); (2)…

All institutions of higher education receive support from different combinations of patrons holding different expectations about the rewards of their patronage. In fact, much of what goes on in colleges and universities is the result of accommodation of the interests of governmental, industrial, and philanthropic patrons mediated through the…

Reasons why corporations should support colleges and universities are suggested by the head of both the General Foods Corporation and the Council for Financial Aid to Education (CFAE). Higher education faces three crucial problems: the decrease in federal funding, especially student financial aid; decreasing enrollments; and probable decreasing…