Pessimism over finances pervades the outlook for education in 1976, as shown in a preview of this year's top education issues in each state. (Author/MLF)

Text in Spanish. Abstracts in English, French, and Russian.

This booklet lists 319 measures that colleges and universities have taken to meet the financial crisis. The measures are listed under: (1) "Increasing Income," and include raising tuition and student fees, changing investment policies, and administration and use of plant and facilities, and other income-producing procedures; and (2) "Decreasing…

The author uses a simulation model to illustrate how the farm crisis is expected to affect rural businesses and governments. He offers the results and implications for private and public decisions makers as an aid to planning for efficient delivery of services. (Author/CH)

The Maritime College Faculty Student Association (FSA) is a campus-based, not-for-profit corporation that was formed to operate, manage, and promote educationally related services for the benefit of the campus community at the State University of New York Maritime College, which trains students to become licensed officers in the U.S. Merchant…

Contingent upon the adverse criticism leveled at urban public schools, article proposes that a city would estimate the cost of a child's education in the public schools and offer the child a voucher equal in value to that cost, which he might present at a private school of his choice. (RJ)

A look at how one of the nation's smallest community-owned public television stations has managed to serve community needs and obtain financial support. (AK)

Describes how, as colleges' fundraising declines amid economic hardship in the San Francisco Bay area, anxiety at local institutions is rising. (EV)

Recent census data analysis suggests economic inequality greatest among elderly. Worst off 20 percent of elderly (disproportionately unmarried women, minorities, physically impaired) received 5.5 percent elderly's total resources; best off 20 percent received 46 percent. Equalizing effects of Social Security outweighed by private pensions, asset…