Purpose: The working hypothesis of the paper is that modern universities are peculiar for low sustainability to the changes of external environment due to low effectiveness of applied approaches to the diversification of their activities. The purpose of this paper is to verify the offered hypothesis by the example of modern Russia and develop an…

The "2019 Nebraska Higher Education Progress Report" is the fourteenth annual report designed to provide the Nebraska Legislature with comparative statistics to monitor and evaluate progress toward achieving three major goals for Nebraska's postsecondary education system: (1) Increase the number of students who enter postsecondary…

President Barack Obama's American Graduation Initiative, the pledge of $12 billion for America's community colleges over a 10-year span, delighted Maryland officials because the state's community-college enrollment is growing at more than 4 percent a year while public and personal budgets are shrinking. With 16 community colleges serving the…

This monograph presents state-wide financial data for higher education in New York. The information source was the Higher Education Data System. The data is presented in four tables for fiscal year ending 1991 that provide the following information: (1) a summary of current funds revenues by source in institutions of higher education; (2) a…

Nine-month faculty average salaries and the increases over 1983-84 figures that they represent are tabulated for public and private institutions by rank and institution type: Ph.D-granting, comprehensive, two-year, and totals. (MSE)

The so-called binary system of postsecondary education in Australia, a subject of recent criticism, is found to be less a matter of concern than the related funding issues and concern for equitable support of all sectors. (MSE)

There has been a generally accepted but untested assumption regarding faculty collective bargaining that faculty members in prestigious colleges and universities are not likely to be interested in unionization. It has been observed that where scholarly prestige, financial resources and economic resources and economic benefits are low, faculties…

The median administrator salaries and percentage changes from the previous year are reported for 88 administrative functions in public and private institutions and in universities, four-year colleges, and two-year colleges. (MSE)

Projections of student expenses are indexed for comparison with the Consumer Price Index. Forecasts include: no slower rate of increase of average expenses; by 1984-85, total student expenses at private institutions will double public institutions'; tuition is now the dominant cost; and two-year institutions are not much less expensive than…

Ten college and university mergers are discussed to present information about the reasons for such mergers, the process employed to achieve them, and their consequences. The study provides practical information about several mergers that have taken place and suggests guidelines for those who wish to consider merger. A variety of factors…

Revenue sources for five categories of public, private, and church-related colleges and universities are summarized. A view of how fund sources differ among categories of institutions (doctoral-granting institutions vs. bachelor-granting vs. two-year colleges) and among public, private, and church-related institutions within these categories is…

Retrospective views of the experiences of 1,406 former college presidents are reported with attention to their backgrounds, responsibilities, and decisions that led them from the president's office. After examining demographic data on this sample of a generation of college and university presidents, their midcareer changes and postcareer…

Information about degrees and other formal awards conferred between July 1, 1976 and June 30, 1977 in New York state colleges and universities are presented. Tables provide the following information: degrees conferred in institutional classification, 1976-77; degree trends by type of institution, level of degree, and year, 1972-73 to 1976-77;…

Descriptions of 2,863 colleges make up the College Handbook. These are all the undergraduate institutions listed in the 1973-74 edition of Education Directory - Higher Education, published by the United States Office of Education, as well as some colleges that qualified early in the year for listing in the 1974-75 edition of that directory. Most…