Examines research management, particularly within higher education institutions, in Africa including, research and current trends in knowledge production, institutional aspects, research funding, and good practice in research management. (EV)

Examines research management within higher education institutions in East and Central Europe including, research and current trends in knowledge production, institutional aspects, research funding, and good practice in research management. (EV)

Examines research management within higher education institutions in Latin American and Caribbean countries including, research and current trends in knowledge production, institutional aspects, research funding, and good practice in research management. (EV)

Examines research management within higher education institutions in the Asia-Pacific region including research and current trends in knowledge production, institutional aspects, research funding, and good practice in research management. (EV)

Provides a synthesis of the major points raised in the analyses of national and regional university research management in the issue's articles. Also presents suggestions for future activities for UNESCO's Research Management Forum. (EV)

Discusses how sweeping new cuts in higher education funding promise to transform the professional lives of academics, particularly pressuring the liberal arts. (EV)

Explores the four major reasons private institutions of higher learning are fundamentally not the same as public institutions: governance, legal distinctions, size, and revenue base (EV)

Studied how 25 New York school districts that applied for funding for corrective actions against low performing schools planned to take action. Also examined the extent to which school choice could be implemented in these districts. Overall, districts seemed unable to implement school choice effectively and did not describe effective corrective…

As states struggle to close deficits, direct taxpayer support to private colleges and student aid programs are in jeopardy in many states. Provides examples of reductions in state funds to private colleges and discusses the likelihood that increases in student grants will not make up the difference for private colleges. (SLD)

The National Science Foundation will increase support for supercomputer centers at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, while leaving unclear the status of the program at Cornell University (New York) and a cooperative Carnegie-Mellon University (Pennsylvania) and University of Pittsburgh…

Provides advice to small alumni offices on how to manage alumni relations and the annual fund campaign, noting that small offices need to develop a flexible attitude, consider the benefits of performing both tasks, work with people they can count on, manage their time carefully, and balance both activities. (MDM)

Five principles for tertiary education funding are as follows: (1) secondary graduates should be entitled to basic publicly funded higher education; (2) public funding should be equitable across sectors; (3) students should pay their own costs beyond basic entitlement; and (4) public funding should include incentives for quality-improving and…

Provides an overview of the Internet 2 project, being developed by research universities and affiliate members to accelerate Internet development for higher education with the next generation of communications technologies based on the capabilities of broadband networks. Costs and funding and implications for non-members are discussed. (LRW)

Offers contrasting views on whether the federal government's scheduled repeal of the estate tax will crimp charitable giving to higher education. (EV)

Describes how several school districts sought private funds to build and upgrade school facilities. (PKP)