Program whereby businesses pledge 1 per cent annual income before taxes to a college or university, to be increased as the need develops. The motivation is to ensure America's leadership role in the world. (IR)

The author argues that 1983 federal budget cuts cannot and will not be replaced in sufficient measure by private efforts. The private sector will not provide the education nor the training and employment programs that federal funding has supported. (Editor/CT)

PARTICIPANTS IN THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ETV HELD AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY IN 1963 WERE AGREED THAT ETV'S PROMISE IS MORE ANTICIPATED THAN ACHIEVED AND THAT ITS BUILT-IN ECONOMIC PROBLEMS MUST BE MET AND OVERCOME BEFORE REAL ACHIEVEMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE. PROBLEMS DISCUSSED DURING THE CONFERENCE INCLUDED COSTS, CAPITAL INVESTMENT, AND UNIONS.…

The first of two papers reports the findings of a survey on funding patterns for rare books acquisitions which was distributed to 164 libraries, including all members of the Association of Research Libraries. A second paper discusses the support provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities for special collections. (MES)

The president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting discusses funding needs, problems and distribution for public broadcasting in the future. (AK)

The successes and failures of individual educational projects carried out under governmental authority are discussed. (CK)

Demonstrates through analysis of the foreign language recommendations of the President's Commission that the foreign language profession is the beneficiary of funding recommendations totaling nearly half of all requested monies. (Author/BK)

The article looks at alternatives for parents seeking to provide for a disabled child without losing government benefits including disinheritance, an outright gift to a third party to be used for the child's benefit, an outright gift to the child, a support trust, or a discretionary spendthrift trust. (DB)

The Department of Education has requested that a committee of experts evaluate its role in supporting education research, with special attention to OERI activities. The committee is expected to make recommendations to the department that will make OERI more effective and increase the impact of its investment in education research. (DM)

Explores the three primary methods of funding for e-commerce startups and the impact that funding criteria have had on the resulting organizational cultures. Highlights include self-funded firms; venture capital funding; corporate funding; and a table that compares the three types, including examples. (LRW)

This study examined the financing patterns of 212 community colleges in 11 midwestern states during the decade of the 1990s using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Support from state appropriations declined between 1990 and 2000, and reliance on tuition and fees increased between 1990 and 1995, although both trends were…

College completion remains one of the most compelling and vexing policy issues in higher education today. Although access to higher education has increased substantially over the past three decades, student success in college as measured by degree completion has not improved significantly. There is a great disparity in the percentage of low-income…

This report presents the deliberations of the Appalachia Regional Advisory Committee (Appalachia RAC), one of 10 RACs established under the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. sections 9601 et. seq.) to assess the educational needs of the region. The Committee's report outlines the educational needs across the four states of…