The author talks with black undergraduates who discuss their lives at Yale University. (PG)

Describes an all Negro college that opened in 1969. (HS)

The establishment, growth, and purposes of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities are reviewed with emphasis on the organization's role in helping solve the financial crisis of the independent sector. (LBH)

One of America's distinguished social observers describes the impact of meritocratic standards on Harvard University over the past 4 decades. (Editor)

The network of independent American colleges and universities located in countries throughout the world is described. Some colleges were inspired by missionaries; others began as options for American undergraduates to study abroad. The overseas American colleges are an established fact and seen as valuable contributions to world education. (MLW)

"Harvard Magazine," an alumni publication which entered the public market for national consumption in 1974, now has a circulation of 52,000 and a $100,000 annual deficit but hopes to be self-supporting by 1980. Rationale and format are described. (JT)

Discusses the portfolio management and financial administration of Harvard and Yale. (PG)

A three-way dialog between Francis Pray, Chairman of Frantzreb and Pray Associates; William Sullivan, Dean of St. Louis University; and John Terry from John Brown University on the future of private higher education. (PG)

Liberal arts colleges, with an emphasis on development of the whole person and on freedom of the mind and spirit, provide a significant link with the traditions of democracy. (Author/KE)

If the private sector of higher education is to survive, it must cooperate with the public sector in order to receive state aid. (HS)

Private higher education institutions will benefit very little from the Senate's approved higher education bill. (HS)

Explores the four major reasons private institutions of higher learning are fundamentally not the same as public institutions: governance, legal distinctions, size, and revenue base (EV)

Discussion centers on how major universities, e.g., University of California (Stanford) and the University of Michigan, are cutting costs to operate more efficiently. Questions concerning public vs private incentives to cut costs and cost containment strategies as a function of institutional size are addressed. (DB)

Used 20 years' of data from colleges of arts and sciences at a set of selective private research universities to examine whether the proportion of faculty positions and salaries going to science increased. Contrary to expectations, found that it did not. (EV)

Boston University's Program in Artisanry, begun in January 1975, blends the vocational, manual and artistic within a liberal arts system. Philosophy, staff, and curriculum are described for the craft school which has 73 majors who take one-third of their courses from the larger University. (JT)