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Travis, Jon – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2012
American public higher education is in trouble. Besieged by declining state and Federal support for more than 30 years, public colleges and universities are facing a "game-changing" set of challenges that threaten to alter the very nature of the institutions. As two recessions withered state budgets in the first decade of the 21st…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Educational Trends, Retrenchment
Walker, Charles U. – Northwest Education, 1998
Describes two scholarship programs administered by the Ford Family Foundation: the Ford Scholars Program and the Ford Opportunity Program for Single Parents. These programs are unique because of the partnerships developed with other organizations and the interest taken in the recipients. (TD)
Descriptors: College Students, Foundation Programs, Helping Relationship, Higher Education