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)

Studied health and finances among 1,782 older unmarried persons. Examined effect of financial strain on physical health over time and degree to which vulnerability to financial strain was linked to health. Found no evidence that financial strain contributed to poor health. (Author/NB)

Conducted two studies on economic stress and suicide on same population. First study replicated aggregate time-series work using monthly data for 1975-82 for Los Angeles, California. Results do not support contention that economic contraction has strong, widespread effect on suicide in general population. Findings suggest effect that regional…

Conducted two studies on economic stress and suicide on same population. Second study combined aggregate economic indicators with individual-level measures of stressful events, symptoms, and suicidal ideation obtained in survey of Los Angeles, California (1978-82). Findings revealed small associations between economic stress and suicide or…

Examined relationships between economic distress and family satisfaction and effects of social integration on these relationships among 1,561 married adults. Results indicated that income components of economic distress were related to family satisfaction while employment components were not. Economic distress was negatively related to social…

Estimated impoverishment risk for two samples of community-living elderly (N=900+). Found that for elders over age 75, 46 percent of those living alone and 2 percent of couples would spend lifetime assets and current income, becoming impoverished in 13 weeks if institutionalized in skilled nursing facility. Rates were comparable for elders over…

The study identified the financial problems of displaced and nondisplaced homemakers. Results indicated that recently displaced homemakers who are older, live with dependent children, and have low incomes experience more financial problems than their peers. Recommendations include offering vocational education programs to motivate displaced…