This United States Department of Agriculture summary report focuses on the revenues, costs, and finances of specialized cotton farms in 1986. The report also provides general information on all farms producing cotton. The data on which the report is based are from the 1986 Farm Costs and Returns Survey. Some of the conclusions drawn from the study…

The released prisoners' search for work is hampered by a lack of cash resulting from his inadequate earnings during his confinement. To improve this situation many prisons have established work-release programs in order to improve a prisoner's financial status when he leaves. (BP)

Briefly discusses the financial pressure necessitating college closing, the timing of the announcement to the public, and the need for assisting students to make appropriate transfers. (CJ)

Provides a list of suggestions to induce advertisers in school publications to pay their bills. (RB)

Increased dialog is needed among educational film producers, distributors, and consumers in order to be sure that what is being produced meets educators' needs and also to help solve the financial problems of the film industry. (LS)

Paper presented at Symposium on the Application of Technology to Education, Washington, D.C., September 9-10, 1968.

Despite its rapid rise as leader of the religious broadcasting industry, Jim Bakker's "PTL Club" (People That Love) has experienced numerous financial problems. In 1979, three former PTL vice-presidents charged that the club was diverting thousands of dollars in donations for missionary projects to the club's general fund to pay bills.…

This paper addresses the causes of urban fiscal difficulty in American cities by outlining the dynamics of six distinct processes. These operate differentially in many American cities; together they converged to produce the acute difficulties in New York City. They are, nevertheless, distinct enough to consider separately both for analytical…

It has been proposed that much of the financial information provided by higher education institutions is often ill-suited to the needs of planning and management. Most decisionmakers, particularly those at the state and federal levels, have difficulty in relating the financial information provided them to the issues and problem areas they must…

This report examines the financial condition of men when they are released from state prisons. To what extent are they any better off than when they went in? With few exceptions, the author finds very little difference: they leave prison as they entered, still poor, with few employable skills and little work experience. The little money men do…

The purpose of this study was to investigate and clarify the present status and future direction of independent higher education in Florida, and to present recommendations that may help strengthen this sector of Florida higher education. The report examines: (1) student enrollment; (2) curriculum and degrees granted, the faculty, their degrees,…

In every advanced society the problems of higher education are problems associated with growth. Growth poses a variety of problems for the education systems that experience it and for the societies that support them. These problems arise in every part of higher education--in its finance, in its government and administration; in its recruitment and…

The financial condition of independent higher education in Pennsylvania is examined based on data provided by 62 independent colleges and universities. Results of the study indicate: (1) Although the absolute enrollment in the independent sector of higher education continued to increase during the 10-year period, 1963-72, the independent sector's…