This report of the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board provides a review of tuition and fee waiver programs submitted by each state university, regional university, state college, and the community college system; and presents recommendations for the continuation, modification, or termination of these programs. The review…

Drawing from data submitted by the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical and Adult Education (VTAE) districts on their 1992-93 actual cost allocation schedules, this report provides information on district and statewide program and unit costs. First, introductory material provides a statewide summary by aid category of the actual unit costs and ratios…

School systems have been forced to postpone purchases of new equipment and to defer repair and renovation projects. At present, 39 states provide support for local school district capital expenditures through five primary mechnanisms: full state assumption, state/local sharing, state flat grant, state equalizing grant, and state loans. In response…

This paper reviews trends in resource allocations in the public schools over the last 25 years. It focuses specifically on changes in expenditures and school staff for the nation as a whole and for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, using data from the National Center for Education Statistics and the National Education Association…

From January 1980 through December 1982 the Illinois Valley Library System (IVLS) and 33 of its participating libraries conducted an experimental project to test the costs and benefits of OCLC use in small and medium-sized libraries. This report, one of eight describing the results of the OCLC Experimental Project, examines interlibrary loan…

A comparative budget analysis approach employed by British universities is discussed. The British funding system analyzes in detail unit costs and marginal costs and undertakes comparative assessments of expenditure patterns and priorities for a group of 95 institutions with similar objectives, in which each has autonomy in resource allocation.…

This paper is a checklist on ways to save money targeted to administrators of small rural schools but appropriate to schools of any size. Tips concerning staff include salary issues, early retirement, time management techniques, involving staff in budget and facilities planning, and utilizing limited-experience teachers, teacher-administrators,…

A 1981 survey by the American Council on Education's Higher Education Panel of a stratified sample of colleges and universities looked at the condition of student housing. The survey provides a broad assessment of occupancy rates, extent of substandard housing, students' housing expenses, and off-campus rental housing conditions. The survey also…

The 1979-80 results of a building utilization study of Toledo, Ohio, public elementary schools are presented in this report. An evaluation instrument created for the study provided a means of ranking the schools in each of eight general areas: educational adequacy, operating costs, current and projected enrollment, environment, alternate use,…

This report provides national and cross-state profiles of the characteristics of center-based day care and presents estimates of the degree to which centers are currently in compliance with the major provisions of government day care regulations. The information presented here was compiled as part of the Supply Study, a project of the National Day…

Based on enrollment and cost data supplied by each of the 51 Illinois public community colleges under a uniform accounting system, this report graphically and textually analyzes instructional costs per student credit hour generated during fiscal year (FY) 1979. The analysis, which compares cost areas by state, district, and institutional averages,…

THE DOCUMENT IS DESIGNED TO ASSIST IN THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SENIOR COLLEGES. FOUR ASPECTS ARE DISCUSSED--BACKGROUND CONDITIONS, PLANNING, FINANCING, AND PROBLEMS. (HW)

One of six documents describing the Management Information System for Vocational Education (MISVE), this document is intended to provide administrators and managers with information needed by them to estimate resource requirements for implementing MISVE in their State, plan for selecting and implementing generalized computer software, plan for…

Volume two of the two-volume annual report of the total revenue and expenses of provincially assisted universities of Ontario for the fiscal year ending April 30, 1979 is presented. Focus of this volume is on reports from the 22 institutions that are affiliated or federated with the province's 15 universities. Six tables are used to present the…

A detailed demographic study of York County, Maine in 1973 found that while most existing colleges offered four-year programs, job opportunities were eight times greater for associate degree holders; that the state could not afford to construct or maintain additional campuses; and that a large number of residents lived too far from existing…