Explores how U.S. higher education's number one position over the last century is threatened as institutions struggle to deal with rising expectations from students and employers, which are producing chronic fiscal problems feared to be eroding the quality of teaching and research. (EV)

With outsourcing, colleges can focus on their primary mission rather than on managing an auxiliary service that may compete with private sector alternatives. Discusses when an institution should outsource; what businesses can bring to educational communities; the role of business officers in outsourcing; how to ensure successful outsourcing; why…

Discusses why the current economic downturn for public institutions requires that policy makers respond with new financing policies that reflect the simultaneous convergence of state deficits, changing demographics, and the information economy's voracious demand for a more educated workforce. Presents strategies for states to behave as investors…

Describes the turnaround at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, which has long offered a solid liberal arts education in relative obscurity. The efforts of a new president, William Durden, have enabled the college to find its market niche and increase its enrollment and improve its finances. (SLD)

Graduate schools require federal support if they are to produce the new knowledge and trained intelligence necessary to the security, prosperity, and cultural life of the nation. Recommendations of the National Commission on Student Financial Assistance are discussed. (MLW)

The Action Committee for Higher Education--a coalition of 19 Washington-based higher education groups that serves as a national information clearinghouse on student aid, keeping students, parents, the news media, campus officials, and others informed about the Reagan Administration's student aid proposals--is described. (MLW)

Last May, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce and its 21st Century Competitiveness Subcommittee, which are responsible for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, introduced H.R. 4283, the College Access and Opportunity Act (superseded in 2005 by H.R. 609). None of the debates over this proposed…

Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley operate in a spirit of cooperation that is unique for a public and a private university. Cuts in either research or student aid could seriously harm both institutions. (MLW)

Higher Education needs a rebirth of academic management to combine educational policy and planning with financial administration. The approaches to strategy-making at four institutions at Hood, Hartford, Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Teachers College are described. (MLW)

Colleges must investigate financing options before they are needed by their students and be ready to help students find new and creative ways to fund their education. Tax-exempt financing options, new sources of loan capital, cooperative arrangements with state agencies, and new federal aid are among the possibilities to explore. (Author/MSE)

Over the past decade, the understanding of student mobility patterns has increased considerably through research based in the analysis of longitudinal data sets. A significant challenge to crafting effective policies on student mobility emerges from most states focusing on full-time, 18-to-24-year-old students. While fewer than half of…

Tennessee's higher education funding based on institutional performance is discussed by three key participant-observers of the state's initiatives: Steve Cobb, Arliss Roaden, and John Folger. Money for remedial education was taken out of university budgets and put in special college preparatory institutes. These institutes are discussed. (MLW)

The experience of Meharry Medical College in obtaining and using federal funds and grants is presented to illustrate the plight of Black professional schools. (JMF)

Research indicates that budget increases currently enjoyed by colleges and universities will bring only temporary relief from an imminent fiscal crisis in higher education. Growing student numbers, stagnant public funding, labor development needs in the next two decades combine to predict substantial problems. Five far-reaching institutional…

Affordability--the ability of students and other funders to contribute to the support of colleges and universities--is a topic of increasing salience. In this Resource Review, we examine the affordability of college from two perspectives: from that of students and their families, and from that of the state. We also identify many references to…