The purpose of this paper is to suggest one practical measure for financial aid to disadvantaged college students through an expanded and new involvement in the distribution to student financial aid funds to more students in need. Useful to a discussion of a revamped approach to aid distribution will be a review of who the disadvantaged are, to…

The budgets of several English research laboratories for at least eight consecutive years were examined to obtain an estimate of the rate of change of cost per scientist. Trends were considered separately for wages, buildings and equipment. The largest real-price growth rates per scientist were in major equipment costs, with increases of up to 20…

This paper presents an overview of the assessment of student financial need. After tracing the development of the concept of financial need as it relates to student aid and the various procedures that have been used to determine financial need, the issues related to need assessment are examined. Research on the problems involved in the collection…

On August 15, 1970 the Board of Regents adopted a resolution favoring incorporation of student publications so that the University of Maryland would no longer be the publisher, and recommended that a study be undertaken of the ways the separation could be implemented. In cooperation with the Department of Journalism, the Commission conducted a…

This is the first of two monographs reporting the results of a second study of the postcollege careers of 1958 college graduates. A cross-section of persons who received bachelor's and master's degrees in June 1958 were first studied in 1960. A subsample of the 41,497 respondents to the 1960 study were again contacted in 1963 and asked for…

Development of the Northwest Environmental Education Center (NEEC) is described in this two-part narration. Part One outlines its 13 year history, starting with the need for setting aside a 600-acre site as an educational reserve on Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound, Washington. Procedures followed and resulting problems associated with fund…

Resources of higher education, public and private, have been stretched to the crisis point by the enormous additional enrollment of more than one and one-half million students since 1965. The cost squeeze at most institutions of higher education today has forced them into large deficits. Their problems are complicated by the many tasks undertaken…

A teaching aid and information source on activities, principles, and practices of cooperatives is presented. The following topics are included: (1) Basic Interests of People, (2) Legal Organization of Business in the United States, (3) What Is a Cooperative? (4) Procedure for Organizing Cooperatives, (5) How Cooperatives Are Run and Managed, (6)…

Summarized in this pamphlet are the U.S. Office of Education grants for 1972 in the field of environmental education. Grants were made in each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Micronesia. Among the 162 grants totaling $2,999,040.00, most were made under the Environmental Education Act (P.L. 91-516), though some were…

Because of the potential of computers for improving education, the need for educating people about computers, and the major role that the U. S. Office of Education (USOE) has had in fostering the application of computers in education, it is important that a record be made of USOE's support of computer and computer-related projects. This report…

This book is one of a series of projects developed to increase understanding of the management of educational endowment funds. Specifics of performance measurement and the setting of objectives are emphasized. Part one deals with measurement of the rate of return, or profitability, of an endowment fund. Part two reviews some statistical measures…

This document contains a brief on operating grants for the purpose of communicating system estimates of future university operating needs in Ontario universities to the Committee on University Affairs. Section II traces briefly the major financial developments of the past decade and the third section contains some impressions on the impacts of the…

Presented in this document are the financial data for the provincially assisted universities of Ontario for fiscal year 1971. The data are presented by: (1) total operating expenses by object of expense and functional area; (2) total expenses by type of fund and object of expense; (3) total revenue by source of revenue and type of fund; (4)…

In recent years, the teachers colleges in Ontario have been integrated into the university systems, and it is anticipated that within a short period of time all teacher education programs will be handled through the universities. This addition to the responsibilities of the universities requires that the funding formula used by Ontario…

This document presents a working example of the funding formula utilized by the Committee of Presidents of Universities of Ontario. The formula is used in this study to determine the value of the basic income unit for Ontario universities for academic year 1968-69 by projecting additional needs of the universities from the 1967-68 data. By…