From analysis of data from 579 school districts it is concluded that financial ratios have the ability to forecast fiscal distress a year in advance. Liquidity ratios and salary and fringe benefit ratios were found to be strong forecasters, while per pupil expenditure data had little predictive value. (MJL)

In the view of the ACE Commission on Academic Affairs, the recently adopted revision of Regulation 4 ("Termination of Appointments") of the AAUP do not provide reliable guidance regarding (1) the definition of financial exigency, (2) rule-setting for institutional behavior, and (3) other provisions included in the regulation that could…

The response of courts to terminations resulting from a financial crisis threatening a school is analyzed. That response depends, in part, on whether the teacher is asserting the infringement of a constitutional right, such as freedom of expression, or the deprivation without due process of the law of a property interest, such as a statutory or…

A financial analysis is presented that is based on cost experiences of over 2,000 institutions, covering the period 1972 through 1974. Institutions were rated as healthy, relatively healthy, neutral, relatively unhealthy, and unhealthy. Twenty-five percent fell into the healthy category; 14 percent, into the unhealthy category. (LBH)

This study examines the impact of the Asian financial crisis on children in Indonesia. Data from four rounds of the 100 Villages Survey are used to examine changes in school attendance rates, child labor force participation, and health status. These data cover over 120 households in each of 100 villages around Indonesia and were collected prior to…

This report describes efforts by Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, to address the problem of inadequate faculty salaries by developing and implementing a "profit-sharing" plan that adjusts the faculty salary pool in relation to changes in the institution's financial well-being. It notes that faculty-administration relations at…

The 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and its aftermath have brought to light a number of crucial economic lessons. This curriculum unit focuses on some of the purported causes of the crisis, the workings of the International Monetary Fund, and the general nature of economies affected by financial turmoil. Lesson 1, "A Story of Boom and Bust in…

In an effort to avoid the financial cutbacks being experienced by guidance departments in many school districts, the author suggests several means of keeping school board members aware of the importance of guidance functions. (RWP)

Article is a statement by Senator Walter F. Mondale, a Democrat from Minnesota, on the evaluation of social programs and a serious appraisal of social policy for the nation's children and their families. (Author/RK)

Describes some of the basic types and patterns of social constraints on intergroup relations research; the essay is organized into four broad patterns of constraints: (1) theoretical, ideological and professional; (2) occupational and situational; (3) governmental, institutional and monetary; and, (4) positive constraints. (Author/JM)

The complexity of what is involved in the rational planning of higher education is apparent only when the problems of allocation of resources between higher education and other economic activities are considered jointly with those relating to internal efficiency. (Author)

Attributes the fact that proprietors of American broadcast television have done much less in and for the arts than their European contemporaries to the former's conformity to popular taste, and explores the possibilities introduced by cable. (JM)

Analyzes the fiscal implications of equal educational opportunity as they apply to the schools of New York City, by first placing the discussion in a national perspective and then turning to recent court decisions that have invalidated school finance systems as violations of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. (RJ)

Dual enrollment has been practiced in hundreds of communities across the country for 40 years or more; parochial school children were admitted to public schools for courses which their church schools did not offer. (Author/JM)

For private colleges, the greatest and most secure arena for revenue production is offered by a more aggressive admissions program. (Editor/IR)