Focuses on 3 considerations when reductions in faculty positions are necessary due to financial exigency: (1) the faculty role in reaching decisions on reduction; (2) implications for academic tenure; and (3) requisite due process. (HS)

Thailand faces three major problems in bibliographical control and service: an inhibiting and restrictive Printing Law, lack of library cooperation and little financial support. (SJ)

Private higher education institutions will benefit very little from the Senate's approved higher education bill. (HS)

A discussion of alternatives for financing post-secondary education. (RA)

Negative attitudes, program rigidity, lack of funding, lack of research, organization and administration, reluctance to innovate and reluctance to provide vocational education for all who can profit by it are seven major problems facing vocational education. (GR)

The major difficulty facing community mental centers is uncertain financial support making it difficult to acquire and hold the necessary staff. These centers will achieve neither stability nor their true potential until this nation devises a universal system of prepaid medical care. Presented at World Mental Health Assembly in Washington, D.C.,…

By sharing the risks themselves, colleges may be able to restore their faltering insurance position. (Editor)

Third in a series of three articles on state tax support of higher education. Discusses 22 states with medium level gains of state tax support for higher education from 1960-70 (First article deals with 14 states with slowest gains; the second with 14 states with the most rapid gains). (Editor)

Recounts the short history of the independent black film industry and the reasons for its failure. (RJ)

Discusses how chemistry departments at three campuses of the University of California (Berkeley, Davis, and Irvine) and at the University of Michigan have fared during the years of lean budgets. Indicates that these universities are helped by healthy research funding, academic strengths, service roles, and selective budget cuts. (JN)

Attempts to cut government costs have unfairly focused on social security, disregarding its importance to older Americans. The program also has been perceived erroneously as being on the verge of bankruptcy. Both Congress and the nation, however, must seek solutions to the cash-flow difficulties of the system. (Author/AOS)