Medical schools and teaching hospitals, together with the government, must begin to plan a rational system of support recognizing the multiple functions of the school-teaching hospital complex. (IR)

Discusses the needs and problems of teenaged parents. Gives anecdotes, general conclusions, and recommendations based on interviews with more than 100 Black, White and Hispanic parents aged 16 to 19. (SS)

Reports on an address by Richard Johns, director of Quill and Scroll, in which he suggests that the continuing existence of high school journalism programs is threatened by reduced funding and by the "back to the basics" movement. Johns offers some ideas for how to prepare for threatened cutbacks. (TJ)

Surveyed 59 Wisconsin officials to determine the fiscal crises in U.S. small towns. Results did not reveal a fiscal crisis, but fiscal stress was evident. Wisconsin small governments responded to fiscal stress though increasing local taxes, borrowing money, obtaining increased state aid and shared revenue, reducing expenditures, and promoting…

Relates five methods that San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater used to get through financial setbacks and the 1989 earthquake, which damaged its building. (PA)

Reviews research documenting complex process in which macroeconomic and family demographic factors are associated with economic distress among individuals and families. Shows four components of economic distress--employment instability, employment uncertainty, economic deprivation, and economic strain--to be negatively related to individual…

Studied 71 nonurban homeless adults over a period of approximately 3 years at 2 separate shelters. Two-thirds of the sample were local people. Common reasons for homelessness were family problems, economic problems, and personal problems. There was no evidence that mental illness played a substantial role in this homelessness. Describes…

Analyzes factors that caused economic well-being of children in United States to deteriorate during 1980s. Notes that young families and female-headed families were hit hardest by structural economic changes, contributing to rise in child poverty. Contends that, although more children became poor, social services provision did not increase.…

Describes positive developments for the University of Hawaii system after an 11-percent loss of funding since 1993. Discusses administrator, faculty, and student responses to the financial pressures. (EV)

Describes how, in order to survive, Mitchell College in Connecticut adopted a contract system for all new and tenure-track professors. (EV)

Assembly Bill 540 (AB 540) was passed into law by the California state legislature in October 2001 and was implemented on January 1, 2002. Under AB 540, an undocumented student pays resident (in-state) fees at California's public colleges and universities if the student 1) attended a high school in California for at least three years (schooling…

Universities in the United States are hardly novices in international initiatives, yet overseas projects today, although enticing, often seem novel to them, long experience notwithstanding. A number of motivators drive the new zeal to go overseas. Among these are a resolve to stay competitive in this era of heightened inter-institutional…

Using longitudinal data on South Korean youth, the authors addressed limitations of previous tests of general strain theory (GST), focusing on the relationships among key strains, situational- and trait-based negative emotions, conditioning factors, and delinquency. Eight types of strain previously shown most likely to result in delinquency,…

This study reveals the challenges confronting small, rural "frontier" schools in Montana and the practices that contribute to their sustainability. A Montana frontier school is defined as a school district with 200 or fewer students and its attendant community in a county with five or fewer people per square mile. The researcher…