Outlines the development of thinking concerning equal educational opportunities as related to school finance. Discusses effective schools research and its implications for educational equity, school operation, and professional preparation and practice. The roles of individual schools and competent leadership should prevail over preoccupation with…

This book on educational management, is a collection of works that were presented at a 1991 international seminar. The papers are divided into three sections. The first section, the management in the crossroads of our time, contains three articles: (1) "Development Strategies and Education" (Juan Carlos Tedesco); (2) "Educational…

This publication contains the proceedings of a symposium on higher education finance and management which examined the current financial and managerial direction of colleges and universities. The event brought together institutional presidents and policy makers, corporate leaders, leading financiers, top college and government administrators,…

Resulting from a 2-day conference held to discuss the most critical issues facing community colleges, this paper provides summaries of the participants' conclusions regarding finance, access, quality, and technology. The first section reviews the relationship between mission and finance, asserting that proper institutional support includes moving…

The development and use of financial planning models, with a focus on the Stanford University financial tradeoff (TRADES) methodology, are covered in conference papers, along with the application of the Stanford conceptual framework in five institutional settings. Additional papers consider an experimental modeling language that was developed to…

This paper presents the keynote speech from a symposium on finance and management in higher education. Following introductions, the speaker, an executive from the business community who also serves on several university governing boards, asserted that, like businesses, institutions of higher education face a nearly continual need to respond to…

This publication presents the proceedings of a symposium that brought together the people who create the agenda for higher education with the aim of determining the financial and managerial direction of colleges and universities into the 1990s. General topics covered are the following: (1) financial challenges facing higher education; (2)…

These proceedings contain all of the formal presentations made at a conference focusing on policy issues affecting the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario. Introductory remarks by Harry Fisher are followed by an outline by Blair Tully of the Ontario government's focus on high technology and the projects of the Board of Industrial…

This book contains papers presented at a conference focused on the subject of funding for higher education and providing comparative perspectives on, and case studies of, educational financing from around the world. After an introduction by Ernest L. Boyer, the papers and their authors are as follows: "The Costs of Higher Education: Worldwide…

Educational quality and the organizational structure of the nation's educational system are examined in relation to the call for reform in American public education in this symposium paper. In "Introduction and Problem Statement," Robert H. Beach states that problems in American education stem from a structurally dysfunctional system,…

A condensation of ideas generated during the 1982 Conference on More with Less, this guide presents methods of saving money, increasing student participation, and influencing decision-makers to maintain school meal programs in the face of reduced federal support. For each topic, specific suggestions, a brief case study, and addresses of resource…

This book presents papers from a national symposium conducted by the Forum for College Financing, offering a perspective on how higher education institutions will finance their operations in the future and the challenges that lay ahead. A paper by Richard Anderson and Joe Meyerson, "A Changing National Environment," introduces the other papers in…

Institutional research that focuses on professional development is addressed in 35 papers from the 1982 meeting of the North East Association for Institutional Research. Titles and authors include the following: "Modeling College Student Adjustment and Retention for the Individual Institution" (Norman D. Aitken); "The Development…

This report summarizes the findings of a workshop convened to examine the implications of the "direct and equitable access" provision of the National Literacy Act (1991). For its successful implementation, this provision requires a willingness by state adult education offices, national and state literacy organizations, and other…

Proceedings of the 1982 University of Arizona conference cover two- and four-year college conference sessions, as well as state and institutional perspectives. Topics include college planning in Mexico, consequences of budget reduction strategies, quality and financial structures, public and private competition, state-level formulas, student aid…