This article reports that the nation's economic crisis is bringing colleges higher borrowing costs, smaller endowments, tighter budgets, and fears over the availability of loans for their students. Yet one of the most critical factors in colleges' health--student enrollment--appears to be largely holding strong, at least for now. Tuition and fees…

This report presents an updated review of employment projection and supply data as related to current job cluster program enrollment in the Portland (Oregon) School District. The methods for gathering the data are described and estimates for future enrollment needs are recommended for eighteen occupational clusters. Three fourths of the report is…

The report provides an update on racial and ethnic distribution in student enrollment and faculty employment for 1995-96 within the Oregon state system of higher education. A Faculty Diversity Initiative is highlighted, focusing on campus efforts to implement plans to achieve greater faculty diversity with the use of supplemental funds. Of the…