This paper is a criticism of "Finance and the Aims of American Higher Education" by Howard R. Bowen (HE001412). Veering toward "free education" is inconsistent with ordinary notions of equity because: (1) the purely private benefits of higher education accruing directly to the individual are substantially greater than all costs incurred, and (2)…

The most difficult problem in the financial management of a program of Public Service Employment (or subsidized work-training experience) is the over-obligation of funds. Some training slots are never filled, some trainees drop out early from the program, and others complete their training early. All of these factors "free" funds which…

The severe fiscal problems of private higher education are precisely described in this book. Emphasis is placed on where the money comes from, where it goes, and the consequences of expenditures exceeding income. What private colleges are doing about budget deficits is examined, and important recommendations about what they should be doing are…

This research explored the problem of private colleges borrowing money to pay for construction of needed buildings. The study revealed that most colleges had borrowed money in the past for construction. About two-thirds of those foresaw further construction, and one-half of those who planned to build also planned to borrow to meet part of the cost…

This document reports on the financial condition of 48 liberal arts colleges. Emphasis is placed on the deficit picture between 1970 and 1973; income and expenditure trends for the 48 colleges; implications of the decline in expenditure growth; needed measures of inflation and real resource growth; indicators of financial and academic health in…

This report on higher education finance in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is divided into six sections. Section one deals with state support for higher education, and whether the state should give greater attention to the private sector than it has in the past. The question of whether the state could support substantial additional costs of…

Given that public television must often resort to "talking faces" to fill time (because discussion programs are so cheap to produce), consideration needs to be given to how to do this in audience-attracting ways. One particularly useful method is to pattern the discussion on the enduring human ritual of the sacrifice: with the audience as…

The 20th Annual Legislative Work Conference of the Southern Regional Education Board provided participants with an opportunity to hear and discuss specific proposals for change in higher education. The participants considered the relationship between manpower needs and postsecondary educational opportunity and the kinds of students who attend…

This is a report of students who entered as freshmen in the fall of 1956 and the fall of 1957, and of students enrolled at all undergraduate levels during the 1956-57 academic year at 20 institutions of higher education in the U.S. The report discusses: (1) applications, admissions, and registration; (2) admitted applicants who failed to register…

This paper discusses enrollment projections and trends in public and private colleges and universities. (1) Total enrollment in higher education may reach 14 million by 1982 and 12 million of these will be in public institutions, almost a 100 percent increase since 1970. Enrollments in private institutions will probably increase by only 5 percent.…

This report assesses the crisis facing nonpublic education and offers interim recommendations for utilizing the existing school legislation and for enriching certain proposals under review by the current Administration. The report discusses both financial and nonfinancial issues. (JF)

This brief contains a refinement and amplification of preliminary estimates of operating fund requirements of the provincially assisted universities of Ontario for 1970-71. Part B of the report contains quantitative descriptors of university operations including budgeted operating expenditures for 1969-70, faculty income unit ratios in 1969-70,…

This bibliography is a compilation of all ERIC document citations and abstracts and CIJE citations and annotations relevant to educational finance from the beginning of the ERIC system through July 1971. The scope of the citations included incorporates all those documents bearing descriptors related to educational finance issues associated with…

This publication is an account of a Seminar on the Development of Higher Education which was organized and financed conjointly by the Belgian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs and the Directorate for Scientific Affairs of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Presentations at the seminar centered around the problems…

Among the problems facing the black aged are less income resulting from less education and less choice in work opportunities, housing, and negative self attitudes. (AM)