Reports on an experiment in institutional funding. Grants were awarded to universities with detailed plans for developing their science programs. Major findings of the study are reported in the areas of faculty size, faculty mobility, scholarly productivity, graduate student enrollment, Ph.D. production, postdoctorate employment and geographical…

Money for schools is growing scarcer in the cities and states. There is ample evidence, says the author, that Uncle Sam is rich enough to pay for schools from which the nation benefits. (Editor)

Eisenhower College, after a period of financial ups and downs, is now financially solvent but has a decreased student enrollment. (KE)

Reviews the Tax Reform Act of 1969 with regard to income, estate, or gift tax deductions available for the gift or bequest of a remainder interest. Compares the various types of deductible charitable remainder gifts. Legal forms are included for pooled income fund trusts and for charitable remainder annuity trust gifts and unitrust gifts. (JT)

Indicates that the proper relationship between industry and higher education is one involving visiting industrial professors, industrial support of relevant research projects, industrial sponsorship of employee education, and unrestricted monetary gifts to selected schools. (GS)

Presents changes necessary to make the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program run more effectively: discontinuing the use of separate applications and allowing the institution the ultimate control over awarding the grant. (Author/PG)

Discusses the Office of Science and Technology, the Office of Management and Budget, and Research Applied to National Needs of the National Science Foundation and their roles in determining policy during the period of steady-state in science. (PG)

This guide provides an overview of the National Education Research and Development Centers sponsored by the Office of Research of the U.S. Department of Education. Information provided for each of 23 centers includes the nature of the center's work, its location, and the names of its principal researchers. Center listings are divided into two…

The faculty development program of Shippensburg University (Pennsylvania) was designed to be comprehensive, systematic, and continuous, based on the assumptions that professional development is essential for the entire faculty and that there is value in systematic professional development planning by individual faculty members. Categories of…

By setting current legal definitions of parity in the context of history, this report traces how the parity price and parity income concepts developed. It identifies some of the consequences of price and income parity on agricultural resource use and efficiency, on the size and structure of the agricultural sector, and on the extent of producer…

Churches, and in a larger sense religion, should serve as the conscience of society. Hence Christian bodies have an obligation to condemn gross evils and to speak out on the great moral issues, but they should not give their full support to any political party or cause. The World Council of Churches (WCC) from its beginning in 1948 showed an…

This Congressional report discusses a House bill, the Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Act of 1986. This bill mandates the provision of federal assistance to states for programs of drug abuse education and prevention at the state level, in elementary and secondary schools, through community based organizations, and at institutions of higher…

This chapter characterizes the educational research efforts of England and Wales as unplanned, unsystematic, and in the hands of a wide range of organizations with a variety of forms of funding. The development and activities of the Social Science Research Council, the Ministry of Education's Department of Education and Science, the Schools…

In the past two decades, tutoring services have become an integral part of nearly every program at California's community colleges. The purposes of tutoring services are to provide individual attention to students in academic difficulty, training and assistance in developing effective study skills, assistance and support to special groups of…

This document reports on a model refugee resettlement project implemented in Chicago by the United States Catholic Conference. The project was initiated to document the incorrectness of the claim that the current dramatic reduction in U.S. refugee admissions is necessary due to the purported high cost of resettlement. The project served all…