The conventional response to the financial crisis facing higher education is to increase tuition or request larger legislative appropriations. Another response, however, is possible--the wider use of cooperative education or work-study plans. There are three distinct advantages to work-study plans: (1) learning takes place in less costly settings…

The author believes that there are four basic ways to handle rising costs in private schools: increase enrollment, increase faculty/student ratios, raise tuition, and increase fund-raising efforts. He briefly discusses each of these options. (KC)

Suggestions are offered for overcoming the financial problems of providing staff renewal. (MM)

Problems and promises associated with nonformal rural education in developing nations are presented. (CP)

Calculated financial ratios for 109 Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs). Noted problems with regard to asset productivity, profitability, and equity levels. Found that a risk-spreading charge structure for financing health care needs appeared to exist among CCRCs providing a full-care contract. (Author/ABL)

Concludes that the strongest predictors of newspaper consolidations are the size, trends, and ratios of circulations. (FL)

A model for solving the financial problems of New York University is described. In the future, effort should be to avoid all duplications of programs and to close down programs which incur expenditure with very little return in terms of the population served. (PS)

One method to solve financial problems is to reduce the number of courses offered. (PG)

Professional investment management can ease the financial problems at colleges and universities. (Author/PG)