Looks at the financial stability of New York University and examines how well the merged engineering institution, Polytechnic of New York, is doing. (Author/DN)

Discusses the daily school newspaper at Robert E. Lee High School in San Antonio, Texas, and shows how it solved its financial problems. (RB)

To acquisitions librarians and book dealers 1971 will be remembered as the year of the budget cut. The recession and decreased funding had an adverse effect on libraries of all types. Acquisitions articles, other than notices of fund cuts, were in short supply in the 1971 library journal literature. (15 references) (Author)

There is no one future for the urban main library; there are instead many potential futures, depending on the history and characteristics of any given city and upon the imagination (or lack of it) shown by the individual decisionmakers. (3 references) (Author)

Privately supported colleges and universities are facing financial difficulties which may cause some institutions to close their doors. (HS)

Major bases of concern in biomedical research community are identified, particularly those related to the unexpected year-to-year and institute-to-institute variations in support from NIH. (AL)

This article shows us the problems labor has in establishing leadership training programs for their personnel. (MR)

Reports on a survey of the purchasing and reading habits of Lutheran clergy and dramatizes the economic conflicts affecting these habits. (Editor/JB)

Discusses the future of schools in the United States in the face of declining enrollments. Considers the impact of this trend on such things as class size, building modernization and construction, and energy usage. (FL)

Discusses and draws lessons from the failure of KIPC-FM, the radio station of the All Indian Pueblo Council (AIPC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which operated from January 1976 to September 1977. (GT)

Discusses how President Bush's 2004 budget proposal would erase the shortfall in Pell Grants, but many programs would receive no increases, and two would be eliminated. (EV)

Discusses how dire, long-term financial pressures for both public and private colleges and universities could lead to a fundamental restructuring of their organizational and learning systems around the most promising innovations in teaching and learning. Offers three organizing principles and seven transformative actions. (EV)