There is no one future for the urban main library; there are instead many potential futures, depending on the history and characteristics of any given city and upon the imagination (or lack of it) shown by the individual decisionmakers. (3 references) (Author)

Privately supported colleges and universities are facing financial difficulties which may cause some institutions to close their doors. (HS)

Major bases of concern in biomedical research community are identified, particularly those related to the unexpected year-to-year and institute-to-institute variations in support from NIH. (AL)

This article shows us the problems labor has in establishing leadership training programs for their personnel. (MR)

Reports on a survey of the purchasing and reading habits of Lutheran clergy and dramatizes the economic conflicts affecting these habits. (Editor/JB)

Discusses the future of schools in the United States in the face of declining enrollments. Considers the impact of this trend on such things as class size, building modernization and construction, and energy usage. (FL)

Discusses and draws lessons from the failure of KIPC-FM, the radio station of the All Indian Pueblo Council (AIPC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which operated from January 1976 to September 1977. (GT)

Discusses how President Bush's 2004 budget proposal would erase the shortfall in Pell Grants, but many programs would receive no increases, and two would be eliminated. (EV)

Discusses how dire, long-term financial pressures for both public and private colleges and universities could lead to a fundamental restructuring of their organizational and learning systems around the most promising innovations in teaching and learning. Offers three organizing principles and seven transformative actions. (EV)

The chancellor of the City University of New York says that public institutions of higher education can convert daunting budgetary challenges into opportunities for innovation. Representatives of the University Kansas, Kent State University, and Southern Illinois University also offer their perspectives. (EV)

Discusses how the collapse of online learning enterprises at several colleges and universities offers lessons for all in this still-promising field. (EV)

Describes how, now that its books can finally be audited after a period of probation, Grambling State University is instituting measures to make sure it does not risk losing accreditation again. (EV)