If cash-strapped universities want an easy way to save money, Lawrence B. Martin, a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has an idea. By tallying faculty output in areas such as publication rates in scientific journals, Mr. Martin has concluded that there could be as much as $1-billion to $2-billion in…

The council believes that the state of Maryland must increase the level of its overall financial commitment to higher education. During the past year the council conducted studies on higher education in the Baltimore Metropolitan Region, the enhancement of the predominantly black institutions of higher education, reforming the budgets for higher…

Analytical techniques developed by the University of Texas at Austin to deal with problems of forecasting future enrollments, instructional workloads, and funding levels are considered. In order to project university enrollments, Texas public high school graduates were projected. In-migration rates were separated from survival rates,…