Describes how the failure of state lawmakers to pass a budget by the start of the fiscal year forced the partial shutdown of Tennessee's public colleges. (EV)

Describes how salaries at private colleges are growing ever greater than those at public institutions and the fears that important ideals in American higher education may be lost as a result. Includes tables on what professors earn overall and in individual institutions by state. (EV)

Describes how more regional public institutions are opening honors colleges to raise their profiles and attract better students. (EV)

Explores how public colleges are adapting to a new accounting procedure that gives many of them apparent deficits. (EV)

While Ohio State University's recent success at fund raising is raising the hopes of other public and private institutions, many private colleges are worried by competition with public universities for a finite supply of private money. (MSE)

Describes how the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund wants to attract more support for students at public black colleges, who are excluded from the successful United Negro College Fund. (EV)

After a difficult year for colleges and universities in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, the enrollment outlook for this fall is a lot brighter. Tulane University reported last week that 1,375 high-school seniors had committed to attending, a 56-percent jump over last year's 882 new freshmen. Xavier University of Louisiana reported that it…

Discusses how as states push historically black public colleges to do more to recruit white students, colleges seek effective strategies and some educators see a double standard. (EV)

Describes how, as states tighten their fiscal belts in the face of a worsening economy, public colleges are substantially raising tuition or facing budget uncertainty. Includes a table of schools raising tuition by at least 10 percent for 2000-2001. (EV)

The tight budgets that many governors have recently proposed have public colleges in a growing number of states convinced that lean times have returned. The situation is particularly dire in certain southern states. In many states, higher education budgets are taking a back seat to public schools. In some states, lack of state funding is forcing…

Increases in tuition around the country range from five percent to eight percent this fall, but will probably slow next year. Public and private colleges give different reasons for the increases. (MSE)

In an unprecedented move, revenue generated by the University of Kentucky's athletic program will be transferred to the university's general operating fund for 1988-89 and 1989-90 for general support of academic programs. Previously, funds have been donated to endow academic scholarships and to build a new aquatic center. (MSE)

The cost of attending public, four-year and two-year colleges surged at its highest rate in 3 decades, rising 14 percent over the previous year, although financial aid is up, too. Research shows that state budget cutbacks in education typically result in colleges' charging higher tuition. Higher education officials are expressing concern about the…

Describes how, with budgets tightening, the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University at College Station are among the elite public institutions wondering if they should trade state money for greater autonomy. (EV)

Discusses how governors and business leaders want public colleges to concentrate on programs that will help create jobs; but the public says that colleges should emphasize undergraduate teaching. (EV)