A longtime leader in the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) assesses the state of the profession, asserting that diminished resources have reduced public higher education's intellectual quality as well as its students' opportunities. (EV)

Studied tribal libraries through visits to libraries in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona. Tribal libraries serve as key information centers for the tribe's sovereign nation, and are almost always the education center of the community. However, they get minimal federal support, and few states enjoy a functional working relationship with them. (SLD)

Explores the history of privatizing university housing and some current financing options, including use of developer and private foundations. Examples of successful alternative financing methods are highlighted. (GR)

Describes meta-analysis, including criticisms; reviews its use in resolving disagreements regarding the results of research in psychotherapy, school funding, and medicine. (Contains 43 references.) (PKP)

Responses from 199 rural Pennsylvania nurses showed that 86% had participated in recent continuing education. Deterrents included lack of support from supervisors/spouses, inflexible schedules, money, time, and travel. Administrators believed nurses were supported for professional development. Little money was available for continuing education.…

Describes how historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are adopting advancement models allowing a more cohesive and lucrative approach to development. The opportunities that HBCUs are exploring now include: non-alumni donor development, online contributions, alumni giving, endowment development, challenge grants, faculty and staff…

Research commercialization is a crucial aspect of technological innovation and is a complex socio-economic and technological process. This paper explores the commercialization of university research, drawing on an empirical study of the development of research commercialization by Australian universities. The study addresses three main research…

Australian higher education's interest in performance dates back to the 1960s but intensified during the 1990s, with the increasing focus on measuring outputs and outcomes rather than input. This development has been partly prompted by greater interest in quality assurance mechanisms and the recent advent of the Australian Universities Quality…

Annual state panel data from 1980 to 1999 was examined to understand the effects of child support enforcement (CSE). However, in recent years, it has been found that the CSE among current and former welfare families are dramatically improved.

All respected educators share one ultimate goal: to enhance the lives of students in their care. Few make impacts that get lauded worldwide; instead, most are content to know that, at day?s end, one child is more knowledgeable, more secure, or more fired up to learn thanks to that presence in their lives.

We hypothesize that the social support available from low-income networks serves primarily a coping function, rather than a leverage function. Social support and its relationship to material well-being is assessed in a sample of 632 former and current welfare recipients. Respondents report higher levels of perceived emotional, instrumental, and…

There is little empirical evidence documenting the development activities of academic units in colleges and universities. This study attempts to bridge the knowledge gap by examining the development practices of graduate schools, which confront special challenges in their efforts to generate private support. Results from a survey of member…

This paper aims to re-examine the effects of funding on university autonomy since the relationship between university autonomy and funding is likely to be interpreted as a linear effect; namely, the more funding the greater autonomy. Such a simplistic vision is less than complete since it ignores the complicated nature of university autonomy. The…

This paper explores the different economic reform models and mechanisms for financing education in Russia. Several financial innovations were used in governmental conceptions of the reform in education. However, the question of mechanisms for financing education has been brought to the forefront in highly industrialized countries that have…

The U.S. Department of Education will see its smallest budget increase in nearly a decade under the catchall spending plan approved by the Republican-controlled Congress in a lame-duck session. For the first time since President Bush entered office, the budget will fall short of his overall request for education funding. The final fiscal 2005…