The characteristics of student loan borrowers and differences between those who repay their loans and those who default are examined. Data are based on the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation Guaranteed Student Loan database and responses to a questionnaire mailed in spring 1984 to a sample of New York State student loan…

Financial problems that are being experienced by colleges and universities in Manitoba, Canada, likely results of these problems, and actions that might be taken are discussed by the president of University of Winnipeg. Provincial aid to universities in Manitoba has been inadequate. One major consequence resulting from financial problems is…

The Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families examined recent reports about dramatically reduced availability of liability insurance for providers of child care services. Child care centers, family day care homes, Head Start programs, and resource and referral agencies have reported that their liability policies are not being renewed, that…

Economic policies of the industrial nations are on a dangerous course, constituting a threat to worldwide growth and to financial and economic stability. The results of inappropriate policies throughout the industrial countries are (1) financial strains which endanger global economic stability, (2) extraordinary imbalances of trade, and (3)…

In this period of financial austerity in education, community colleges can diversify their sources of revenue as an alternative to reducing or eliminating programs or accepting a decline in the quality of education. One such approach involves the colleges in commercial activities undertaken to support educational programs and services. Although…

A summary is presented of a 1982 limited distribution report, published by the Communication Network of the State Higher Education Executive Officers and the National Center for Education Statistics, which presents findings of a survey conducted by the Washington Council for Postsecondary Education. The survey focused on the fiscal situation in…

The policies and procedures outlined in this report have been adopted at Harford Community College (HCC) to: (1) monitor current and projected expenditures relative to accrued benefits, and (2) reduce or redirect expenditures and personnel in the event of declines in enrollment or revenues or a change in mission or program. After stating HCC's…

Inflation has already taken a substantial bite out of educational programs, and the situation will probably get worse. School districts and State education agencies are having a difficult time coping with the effects of inflation. (Author/DN)

While the story is autobiographical, it is also the story of Fairleigh Dickinson University, thought to be one of the last private universities to be established in the United States. Its early development was inspired by the philosophy of New College, Teachers College, Columbia University. Fairleigh Dickinson's establishment represented an…

Zero-base budgeting is presented as the functional alternative to the community college funding crisis which may be precipitated by passage in June 1978 of the Jarvis Amendment (Proposition 13) in California. Defined as the management of scarce resources on a cost/benefit basis to achieve pre-determined goals, zero-base budgeting emphasizes…

As cutbacks continue to be made in college programs and faculty, composition programs will have to prove themselves effective or else face massive cutbacks. To improve their programs, composition instructors should abandon the ineffective approaches of the past, which have been based on formal courses in the principles of good composition, and…

This guide is one of a series of four such guides that are directed toward those people who provide financial counseling to consumers who have problems with overindebtedness. Recognizing that many who serve as financial counselors have little training in the field (for example, clergymen or social workers), the guides are not offered as complete…

The author summarizes the issues that emerged from the congressional hearings on vocational education and provides background information on the major complaints aimed at vocational education. Some of the more controversial issues were women's rights and the ways States have chosen to use their vocational funds. (Author/BP)

Though financial cutbacks have necessitated drastic reductions in community college services in Washington and threaten accepted beliefs about missions, such as the provision of universal educational opportunity, it is important that trustees recognize that educational trends need not necessarily become educational realities. While studies, such…