Mutual funds may be the answer to higher education's financial problems. (PG)

Interlibrary loan traffic in academic libraries has doubled in the past five years. Concurrently labor costs have risen substantially. This growing inequity is forcing discussion of programs for charging fees for interlibrary loan service. This paper raises some of the considerations that should figure into any such discussions. (4 references)…

Medical schools and teaching hospitals, together with the government, must begin to plan a rational system of support recognizing the multiple functions of the school-teaching hospital complex. (IR)

Discusses the needs and problems of teenaged parents. Gives anecdotes, general conclusions, and recommendations based on interviews with more than 100 Black, White and Hispanic parents aged 16 to 19. (SS)

Reports on an address by Richard Johns, director of Quill and Scroll, in which he suggests that the continuing existence of high school journalism programs is threatened by reduced funding and by the "back to the basics" movement. Johns offers some ideas for how to prepare for threatened cutbacks. (TJ)

Surveyed 59 Wisconsin officials to determine the fiscal crises in U.S. small towns. Results did not reveal a fiscal crisis, but fiscal stress was evident. Wisconsin small governments responded to fiscal stress though increasing local taxes, borrowing money, obtaining increased state aid and shared revenue, reducing expenditures, and promoting…

Relates five methods that San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater used to get through financial setbacks and the 1989 earthquake, which damaged its building. (PA)

Reviews research documenting complex process in which macroeconomic and family demographic factors are associated with economic distress among individuals and families. Shows four components of economic distress--employment instability, employment uncertainty, economic deprivation, and economic strain--to be negatively related to individual…

Studied 71 nonurban homeless adults over a period of approximately 3 years at 2 separate shelters. Two-thirds of the sample were local people. Common reasons for homelessness were family problems, economic problems, and personal problems. There was no evidence that mental illness played a substantial role in this homelessness. Describes…

Analyzes factors that caused economic well-being of children in United States to deteriorate during 1980s. Notes that young families and female-headed families were hit hardest by structural economic changes, contributing to rise in child poverty. Contends that, although more children became poor, social services provision did not increase.…

Describes positive developments for the University of Hawaii system after an 11-percent loss of funding since 1993. Discusses administrator, faculty, and student responses to the financial pressures. (EV)

Describes how, in order to survive, Mitchell College in Connecticut adopted a contract system for all new and tenure-track professors. (EV)