Discusses how dire, long-term financial pressures for both public and private colleges and universities could lead to a fundamental restructuring of their organizational and learning systems around the most promising innovations in teaching and learning. Offers three organizing principles and seven transformative actions. (EV)

Explores how U.S. higher education's number one position over the last century is threatened as institutions struggle to deal with rising expectations from students and employers, which are producing chronic fiscal problems feared to be eroding the quality of teaching and research. (EV)

The establishment, growth, and purposes of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities are reviewed with emphasis on the organization's role in helping solve the financial crisis of the independent sector. (LBH)

Financial problems are causing many university presses to close down their publication of scholarly books and articles. (HS)

Deep Springs College, an experimental junior college founded in 1917, is now facing a financial crisis that may cause it to close its doors. (HS)

Describes the serious financial crises facing the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California. (PG)

Discusses recent budget cuts at the National Institute of Education and their ramifications. (PG)

A college faculty's professional behavior could easily determine the well-being of both their own institution and higher education in general. (HS)

A three-way dialog between Francis Pray, Chairman of Frantzreb and Pray Associates; William Sullivan, Dean of St. Louis University; and John Terry from John Brown University on the future of private higher education. (PG)

Circumstances of financial stress for a university are discussed, along with several methods for indicating the presence or absence of financial difficulty. (LBH)

Private higher education institutions will benefit very little from the Senate's approved higher education bill. (HS)

Private junior colleges for women in Boston are suffering from severe financial difficulties. The solutions at three schools, Garland Junior College, Pine Manor Junior College, and Mount Ida Junior College, are presented. (Author/PG)

A student at Lehman College describes student reaction to the threat of loss of free tuition and open admissions at New York City University. To money managers, he contends, they represent a "noble tradition," to students economic necessities. (Editor/JT)

The expansion of higher education institutions during the last decade has resulted in financial strain during retrenchment times as colleges and universities try to continue paying personnel and building operating expenses. The extent of the problem is addressed in this article. (LBH)