The appropriations formula used by the Tennessee Higher Education to generate operating budget requests for the colleges and universities annually is dependent on a detailed study of instruction and departmental research costs. This publication contains the results of this cost study made in the fall of 1971. The basic unit of measurement that…

Legislation requires that the Comptroller General of the U.S. develop and recommend to the Congress methods for review and evaluation of government programs carried on under existing law. This document is a first step in collecting and disseminating general concepts on these activities and how they are related to other activities in the continuum…

Underinvestment in the basic support structure of energy production and utilization projects is discussed as a major source of inefficiency. Causes lie within institutional and economic constraints on the investment decision process. Four constraints are explored. Appropriate federal impact assistance, siting standards, and energy industry…

In addition to tracing Asian Indian immigration to the United States and examining the cultural boundaries established by the Indian immigrant population in New York, this paper documents the efforts of one Indian organization to secure federal recognition of the Indian population as a single "ethnic group." (Author/EB)

The court's finding invalidates New York State's system of financing schools because of problems including municipal overburden. (Author/IRT)

Presented is a model used for placing prudent limits on tenured faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. In this tenure model, the concept of funding durability is at the center of the long-term resource allocation process, setting the stage for academic planning within each school. (JMD)

Discusses the need for designing a system of accountability for use in decision-making about allocations of resources for student services. Programs and staff adjustments should be made in response to the changing student population. (MB)

Erie County Community College (New York) has developed a zero-based program budgeting system to meet current fiscal problems and diminished resources. The system allocates resources on the basis of program effectiveness and market potential. (LH)

An industrial training cost-effectiveness model developed at Bowling Green State University and used in several practical situations is evaluated with definitions of terms, structured training program costs, training returns, and data collection and analysis procedures. The authors emphasize that money spent for structured training is an…

Argues that collective bargaining and accountability are compatible rather than mutually exclusive. Lists real and perceived problems relating to the integration of the concepts, and suggests ways to overcome those problems by shifting the locus of bargaining from local school districts to the state level. (Author/JG)

The lack of educational opportunities keeps the migrants poor. They need the education and skills to perform better paying agricultural work, or else settle somewhere and do other types of skilled work. (Author/NQ)

Attempts to define the number of children in need of special education services and the costs of special education. Discusses six types of state funding in searching for an adequate funding formula and some basic problems of special education. (RK)

The paper summarizes and presents counter arguments against positions claiming that randomized experiments in early childhood are unnecessary, impractical, or unethical. It is concluded that more frequent use of randomized experiments in early childhood special education would provide more effective program evaluation data for resource allocation…

The classical Aristotelian approach to justice and the aims of liberal education are discussed, focusing on distributive justice and access to education, education for leadership, and standards of achievement. (MSE)

The history of the debate over federal efforts to reduce indirect cost recovery in federal research grants to universities is outlined and discussed by a former university administrator involved in the policy's formation. (MSE)