Reports selected data from two National Science Foundation reports, Federal Funds for Academic Science, Fiscal Year 1970'' and National Patterns for R & D Resources.'' (AL)

Presents the pressures within the University of Michigan that lead to the separation of a research center that had been conducting classified military research, (see SE 506 558). Examines the consequences for the university, including likely future relationships with the federal government. (AL)

Current problems in paying for higher education may be the result of poor balance and lack of coordination. (Editor)

Prepared by the National Academy of Sciences, the report suggests implications of the 25 percent cut in support of physics programs as possible loss of scientific supremacy, employment problems, and the abandonment of whole subfields of research. (CP)

Analyzes New York University's Fiscal Crisis and proposes remedies. (JF)

Points out the hazards of Medical Deanship and urges that all those concerned with strength of medical schools (deans, faculties and other university officers) take critical look at administrative problems of a modern medical center. Chairman's address, delivered at annual meeting of Association of American Medical Colleges, Cincinnati, Ohio,…

Many variables used to determine student need, especially family and environmental variables, do not provide means of differentiating between persisters and withdrawers. No new basis was found for predicting success in terms of persistence, or for identifying students who might need special guidance assistance. (Author)

Consulting services that once specialized in helping colleges obtain federal money are now closing their doors. (HS)

The financial crisis currently being experienced in community colleges is forcing the imposition of fees and tuition and thereby changing the basic philosophy of community colleges as open door" institutions. (NF)

Discusses the problem that quite often unusually qualified personnel from the academic standpoint are unprepared for administrative positions and can only solve these problems by way of the trying school of experience and its attendant mistakes. The author offers a system to develop various abilities to achieve solution of this problem. (EK)

Compares costs and benefits to derive a rate of return of 18 percent on investment in the 2-year college. (BH)

Discusses philanthropy; state aid; federal aid, including student grants and loans and direct institutional support; and deferred tuition charges. Outlines federal administration proposals for foundations and institutes. (AL)