This paper comments on the Carnegie Commission reports on higher education and discusses some of the issues higher education and the public have to face. Higher education is in a crisis and in desperate need of continuing financial support from the federal government. The Carnegie Commission can help the public understand some of the problems by…

Despite the turmoil of the last 6 years, there have been few educational changes on the campuses that were instituted on a corporate or conscious central basis. The reasons for this resistance to change stem in part from the cast of characters in the academic world: the administrators who often come from careers where they were little involved in…

Higher education is facing a financial crisis causing many institutions to cut back their budgets. These cutbacks can be attributed principally to improper pricing policies: higher education is "sold" at a great deal less than its cost of production. The two arguments for low-cost or free tuition -(1) the principle of equality of…

The addresses presented at the annual meeting of the Western College Association and included in this volume are: the welcome by Vernon I. Cheadle; "The Continuing and Changing Federal Interest in Higher Education," by Peter P. Muirhead; "Education for Genuine Community in America," by Samuel D. Proctor; and "Higher…

The conventional response to the financial crisis facing higher education is to increase tuition or request larger legislative appropriations. Another response, however, is possible--the wider use of cooperative education or work-study plans. There are three distinct advantages to work-study plans: (1) learning takes place in less costly settings…

The author believes that there are four basic ways to handle rising costs in private schools: increase enrollment, increase faculty/student ratios, raise tuition, and increase fund-raising efforts. He briefly discusses each of these options. (KC)

Suggestions are offered for overcoming the financial problems of providing staff renewal. (MM)

Problems and promises associated with nonformal rural education in developing nations are presented. (CP)

Calculated financial ratios for 109 Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs). Noted problems with regard to asset productivity, profitability, and equity levels. Found that a risk-spreading charge structure for financing health care needs appeared to exist among CCRCs providing a full-care contract. (Author/ABL)

Concludes that the strongest predictors of newspaper consolidations are the size, trends, and ratios of circulations. (FL)

A model for solving the financial problems of New York University is described. In the future, effort should be to avoid all duplications of programs and to close down programs which incur expenditure with very little return in terms of the population served. (PS)

One method to solve financial problems is to reduce the number of courses offered. (PG)