The impact of the Boston-area colleges and universities on the local economy was studied and major findings include the following: (1) Boston postsecondary education is a $1.3 billion annual enterprise, most of which money is spent in the Boston area. (2) Sources outside metropolitan Boston account for more than half of these expenditures. The…

Results of a study concerning teaching about the third world in colleges in Massachusetts are presented in this second of three volumes. Attention is focused on the survey of eastern Massachusetts and Boston, which involved 40 public and private institutions. Courses dealing with the third world were identified and estimates were made of the…