Information overload, technological change, and financial problems combine with a possible moratorium on growth to increase the need for more rational, systematic, and quantified approaches to information activities in organizations. For communication managers who wish to develop more cost-effective and user-responsive programs, one possible…

The primary characteristics of steady state is that it lessens the flexibility of an institution to respond to the demands of change. The phenomenon of steady state will not appear suddenly on campuses throughout the country in the late 1970's and early 1980's when the number of high school graduates diminishes. It is a gradual process influenced…

In seeking to determine causes for the demise of certain small liberal arts colleges a panel of experts were consulted, extensive review of literature was conducted, 10 different colleges that had closed or merged were investigated, and HEGIS data were analyzed. Chapters cover: (1) a review of the historical and current role of the small private…

This study probes the influences behind recent trends in State-local finance and attempts to ferret out the dominant influences that will prevail during the remainder of the seventies. It presents projections of State-local finance for fiscal years 1975 and 1980 that indicate general spending and revenues will grow at a pace that will tend to…

Oversight hearings before the subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress examine the financial plight, and the stability and conditions of higher education institutions. Testimony and statistical data are presented. (MJM)

The preface of this report on state appropriations for higher education discusses the financial problems faced by many of the state institutions because of the failure of state appropriations to keep up with rising costs, expenditures, enrollments, demands and expectations. The report presents a table of appropriations of state tax funds for…

The purpose of this inquiry was to identify the current business policies and procedures of high school newspapers in the United States and to determine whether such an appraisal could be used to achieve higher standards in both education and journalism. Most of the data was gathered in early 1968 by questionnaires sent to 548 public and 68…

In an opening address, the Assistant Director-General for Education surveys the problems that new trends in adult education have presented to UNESCO--to integrate more closely adult education activities, to work towards more systematic co-ordination at the international level, and to establish a world-wide documentation network and improved…

When is a student emancipated from his parents in considering financial aid applications? Indeed, independence from parental support will surely be the subject of litigation and legal settlement in the near future as students and parents test the ramifications of the 18-year-old vote and the age of majority. The author prefers to request financial…

This document analyzes the South's most successful version of a Gilded Age reading favorite, the "Sunny South" story magazine, published by John Henry Seals and edited by Mary Edwards Bryan, in terms of its economic growth and development, article and short story content, and editorial policy. The history of the magazine is traced over a…

There are major disparities in spending and taxation among California school districts. Available resources per pupil bear little relationship to the willingness of local communities to support education or the educational task to be performed. In addition, the State school finance system forces districts to rely on local property tax bases for…

This report discloses that, since the passage of Public Law 874 in 1950, about 2,000 districts or 20 percent of all districts receiving entitlement under the law in 1952-64 experienced some federal installation phaseouts. The study indicates that only in a small percentage of these districts were the effects of the phaseout sufficient to cause…

The committee hearings in this report concern proposed Department of Agriculture regulations. These regulations deal with the method of apportioning the $153.2 million Section 32 funds available for the National School Lunch Program for fiscal 1972. Included are statements from school superintendents, food service representatives, State department…

In the early 1950's, economist Beardsley Ruml recommended that colleges and universities bring faculty salaries into comparable categories with other professionals by increasing the student-faculty ratio to twenty to one. Such a suggestion was greeted with enthusiasm from trustees and many administrators, but faculty were totally against the…

This pamphlet is based on data from individual program reports, unpublished materials and correspondence, personal communications, site visits, a 1968 survey of programs for pregnant school-age girls, and a 1970 study of group infant care programs associated with programs for pregnant students. Since very few communities know the dollar cost of…