Contents include: a summary of enrollment in 43 colleges and universities, and the percentage increase from the previous year; head counts compared with full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollments; head count, credit hour, and FTE enrollments for the lower, upper, graduate, and professional divisions in public and private institutions; grade level…

The sixth annual bibliography is a selective survey of the literature relating to faculty and nonfaculty collective bargaining in public or private colleges and universities. Primarily a source of current references for the year 1977, it also includes pre-1977 references of particular interest at this time that are not included in previous…

This report is the 8th annual survey of college enrollments in Connecticut as prepared by the Commission for Higher Education. Highlights indicate: (1) After decreasing rates of growth in total enrollment for the years 1970, 1971, and 1972, the percentage increase in fall 1973 over fall 1972 rose to 3.7%. (2) In the independent colleges, fulltime…

The financial plight of private colleges and universities in the face of inflation and declining enrollments is examined, with emphasis on serious problems at specific institutions. The likelihood of many closings is addressed, and innovative solutions to problems of student financial aid and fund raising are described. (LBH)

Describes a cooperative dual-degree program between Kansas State University and interested Kansas private liberal arts colleges to provide the vocational certification training of the state university and the "world view" courses of the liberal arts colleges. (MF)

A study of court cases suggests that academic freedom litigation is more likely to originate from public multiversities and comprehensives and among faculty in the humanities and social sciences. This implies that academic units with greater organizational ambiguity are most likely to generate litigation related to academic freedom. (Author/MLW)

The annual survey of college costs by the College Board is described. Students at four-year public institutions will pay 5 percent more than last year while students at four-year private institutions will pay 9 percent more. (MLW)

A study using historical statistics as a strategy for joining the study of the past and present condition of colleges and universities has as subjects Amherst College, Harvard University, Transylvania University, the University of Kentucky, and the College of William and Mary. (MSE)

A table compares faculty salaries by intellectual disciplines and by faculty rank. A total of 272 public and 451 private institutions were surveyed by the College and University Personnel Association. (MLW)

Multicampus systems differ in the type of control (public or private) and the jurisdiction of the governing boards, the degree of similarity among campuses, and the administrative structures. These characteristics are combined to form a typology of multicampus systems: private, statewide, hetergeneous public, and homogeneous public. (Author/MLW)

This directory of higher education in Illinois includes information on the Illinois Board of Higher Education, state public colleges and universities, independent institutions, and other state agencies and educational organizations. The section on the Illinois Board of Higher Education lists board members and staff, and includes an organization…

Many college students complain that the education they are receiving is irrelevant. Colleges and universities ought to be intellectual centers rather than academic factories that teach students facts that they could learn by themselves. (CK)

The large universities and colleges must give up their bureaucratized rules in favor of a system based on trust of, and respect for, the individual. Only by doing this can they become once again the crucibles in which great ideas and human involvement meet. (CK)

Florida is becoming a favored environment for the college fund raiser. Fund-raising statistics suggest that Florida relies on donors who are not their alumni, and an increasing number are older citizens who have moved to the state or who spend the winter months there. (MLW)