Deals with the potential for saving energy and minimizing operating costs within existing school facilities and in attempts to modernize and expand. (Author)

This article points out incorrect interpretations of statistics of state tax support for operating expenses of higher education. (IR)

How formulas for physical plant management have helped Florida improve equity among its seven state institutions. (Editor)

A Pennsylvania school district is currently exploring the possibility of converting and selling or leasing an ultramodern school because of declining enrollment and the cost of energy. (Author/MLF)

Higher education officials are protesting a federal Office of Management and Budget proposal to limit the rate at which universities can charge the government for overhead expenses on research and development. The change would affect 56 of the top 100 institutions receiving federal grants, whose rates go to 41 percent. (MSE)

The purpose of the United States Department of Education's (the Department) FY 2013 "Agency Financial Report" (AFR) is to assist Congress, the President, and the American people to assess the Department's stewardship over resources with which it is entrusted. This annual report is required by legislation and complies with the…

This abstract covers the breadth of higher education activities in North Carolina in their quantitative aspect, from simple counts of enrollment and degrees conferred to complex analyses of the flow of student transfers among institutions. Collected and published annually, this wide range of information should be useful to members of the public…

State and private agencies have attempted to determine the costs of providing an "adequate" education for public elementary and secondary students. In order to identify adequacy target expenditures, four education finance models currently are found within the education finance research literature: (1) Professional Judgment Model; (2) Statistical…

The tables in this report on professional salaries were prepared using data submitted by Maryland's 24 public school systems in the fall of 1997. Salaries include annual pay for 10-, 11-, and 12-month employees in positions listed. All data reflect the conversion of part-time employees to a full-time equivalent. The position types used in the…

Cost analysis involves breaking down operating costs of a school district and allocating those costs to the appropriate unit of analysis so various comparisons can be made and used by school boards in making decisions about whether to continue certain programs or whether to close or consolidate school buildings. A cost analysis does not provide…

The materials on budgeting presented here are based on training programs conducted for women's centers through the Women's Educational Equity Project of the women's center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The booklet's purpose is to provide users with explicit information on developing and negotiating budgets for women's programs.…

To many faculty and to some administrators the budget and its preparation are a mystery, conjured up and released by the chief business officer and president as a straight-jacket to aspirations and expectation. This document attempts to demonstrate that the budget is a straight-forward presentation to a college's constituents of the itemized plan…

This document reports total revenue and expenses for provincially assisted universities of Ontario for the fiscal year ended April 30, 1973. The institutions covered included Brock, Carleton, Guelph, Lekehead, Laurentian, Nipssing, Hearst, McMaster, Ottawa, Queens, Toronto, Scarborough, Erindale, Trent, Waterloo, Western, Windsor, and York.…

Based on information provided by public television and radio station licensees to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), this report presents financial data for fiscal year 1970 for CPB-qualified public radio stations in the United States. A brief discussion of the 91 CPB-qualified public radio stations is provided first, along with an…