The relationship between departmental activities and the need for nonacademic staff and operating funds was analyzed using regression analysis. Support costs were broken into task categories and related to certain basic variables describing the composition and activity of the unit (e.g., number of staff and teaching load). The results were linked…

Patterns of government financing of universities and institutional finance in the United Kingdom were studied. Formulas used in allocating resources for administration, services, salaries, maintenance, facilities, and equipment are reported in some detail, and funding patterns are illustrated in charts. (MSE)

The first part of this paper discusses two principal forms elaborated upon in previous literature for describing the relation between per pupil operating costs and school enrollment size. The first of these forms indicates that average per pupil costs decline up to a point as enrollment increases, reach a minimum, and then rise with further school…