Describes how, as colleges' fundraising declines amid economic hardship in the San Francisco Bay area, anxiety at local institutions is rising. (EV)

Recent census data analysis suggests economic inequality greatest among elderly. Worst off 20 percent of elderly (disproportionately unmarried women, minorities, physically impaired) received 5.5 percent elderly's total resources; best off 20 percent received 46 percent. Equalizing effects of Social Security outweighed by private pensions, asset…

Budget cuts, jurisdictional arguments among colleges, disputes over telecommunications hardware, rapid changes in technology, and sometimes complex state regulatory climates are making state distance learning initiatives difficult. Legislators are concerned that resorting to private ownership of an education telecommunications network would drive…

Proposes an alternative to resource-dependent approaches to strategic behavior, in which actors seek cooptive relations to alleviate constraint. An actor can gain (two-step) leverage by building a cooptive relationship with a player that controls a limiting party's behavior. Data on dependence relations, political alliances, and confidential…

Describes the budget shortfalls facing many public colleges and universities, particularly in the Midwest and Southeast; the familiar cut-back and tuition increase methods many are using to cope; and criticism of their use of earlier windfalls. (EV)

The president of Consumers Union of U.S., Inc. discusses three reasons why consumers should be discontent: (1) many are struggling financially and national leaders are working to make their conditions more harsh; (2) many products result from abusive and exploitative working conditions; and (3) consumption can cause severe environmental damage.…

Context: The recent explosive growth of information technology in hospitals promises to improve hospital and patient outcomes. Financial barriers may cause rural hospitals to lag in adoption of information technology, however, formal studies that examine rural hospital adoption of information technology are lacking. Purpose: To determine the…

This report presents an analysis of the diversity of income streams in UK higher education institutions (HEIs) at a time when the sector is facing considerable uncertainty. The research was conducted over a six-week period from March to April 2010 and, as such, it predated the establishment of the new Coalition Government in the UK. In the period…

Like many other states, Missouri has gone through several rounds of school finance litigation. However, the trial just concluded was unusual in two respects. First, three taxpayers were allowed to intervene for the defense and, in the process, raise important questions concerning the efficiency of school spending and broader questions of school…

If, as some have argued, private higher education is now the most dynamic segment of higher education, it is also the case that its growth, partly in response to the increasing mismatch between spiralling demand and limited state capacity, is often ad hoc. The article examines the contours of this trend in Indonesia, where the balance of public…

Maintaining an outstanding system of higher education requires investments in the faculty members who cultivate the human capital upon which our economy's recovery and future growth will depend. Sadly, the record of the last three decades shows that, when measured by the inflation-adjusted salaries paid to college faculty members or by the…

This report describes the self-reported attitudes and motivations of first-year college students nationally at the beginning of their undergraduate experience, based on a 100-item attitudinal survey administered in the summer and fall of 2008. In particular, the report examines student attitudes that may pose barriers and opportunities for…

Kathy Christie, senior vice president at the Education Commission of the States (ECS), resigned on May 1, 2006, saying that the Denver-based group faces a financial crisis, and that she doubts the current ECS president can fix it. By the end of the week, the accounting manager had also resigned, expressing similar concerns, and two policy analysts…

Profit-making and exploitation of the American Indian by the motion picture industry is reviewed. (AH)