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Stuart, Reginald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
When officials at tuition-driven Fisk University raised the veil of secrecy a few years ago surrounding the university's financial condition, the details they laid out were less than encouraging. The Nashville-based university, home of the historic Jubilee Singers, was losing several million dollars a year and had not received any major private…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Institutional Survival, Financial Problems
Szatmary, David P. – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2011
As other universities across the country struggle with their financial challenges, continuing education units can serve the same pioneering role in the development of new financial and budget systems. Confronted by serious financial shortfalls during the last three decades, university administrators started to focus on new budget and revenue…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Continuing Education, Continuing Education Units, Higher Education
Halfond, Jay A. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Universities are organized to assume uninterrupted growth in enrollments and endowments, steady public funding, an annual ability to inflict tuition hikes on students and their families, everlasting degree programs, vast building operations and permanent commitments to a senior professoriate. Lacking an agile and responsive governance structure,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Enrollment, Endowment Funds
Heckman, Lucy – Library Journal, 2009
The current economic crisis has naturally reached into one's pocket and made many people anxious about their own finances. As consumers ride out these treacherous times, where can they go to find advice on managing and paying down their debt, protecting their investments, incomes, and retirement plans, and applying for mortgages in a tight credit…
Descriptors: Financial Services, Retirement, Money Management, Debt (Financial)
Greengard, Samuel – Community College Journal, 2009
In this article, the author explores how some community colleges have survived, if not thrive, amid the pain of a deep recession. Rather than cut educational options, administrators at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona have opted to freeze discretionary spending, sweep unspent budget allocations back into its general budget, improve its…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Personnel Selection, Educational Finance, Human Resources
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2009
As Congress began debate last week over the size and scope of more than $120 billion in proposed emergency education aid, state leaders were anxiously awaiting the details so they could make specific plans to spend the economic-stimulus money. Governors, state legislators, and state schools chiefs have yet to learn what rules Congress will attach…
Descriptors: State Officials, Legislators, Construction Programs, Financial Support
Fisher, Mark – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1996
Discusses the plight of Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, and the University of the District of Columbia, both historically Black universities that are fighting for their existence due to declines in enrollment and funding and administrative problems. Individuals at each institution discuss the current crises and outlook for…
Descriptors: Administrators, Black Colleges, College Administration, Educational Attitudes
Children Now, 2010
Throughout history, societal investments in children have resulted in increased prosperity for individuals, communities, states and nations. This proved to be the case for California in the 1950s and 1960s, when the state strongly supported children's futures. Despite once following this path to prosperity, California has de-prioritized children…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, College Graduates, Adolescents
Gehring, John – Education Week, 2004
Top state and local leaders in Maryland announced a plan last February to lend Baltimore $42 million to help the city's financially troubled school system. The money was used by Baltimore school leaders to address what they called a cash-flow emergency for that school year. Money helped pay employees' salaries for the rest of that year, and helped…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Finance, Partnerships in Education, Government School Relationship
Cage, Mary Crystal – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
Reactions of public college and university officials (e.g., universities of Maryland and Iowa) to issues in lobbying for more funds during a recession are reported. Reactions range from continuing traditional approaches such as testifying at hearings to participating in protest rallies and urging students, parents, and college employees to fight…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Business Cycles, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
Nicklin, Julie L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
Financial pressures brought on by economic recession and increasing costs of academic materials are causing academic libraries to cancel journal subscriptions, reduce book orders, neglect book preservation, cut staff positions, and reduce general services while seeking new revenue sources. Examples of libraries cutting back include those at…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Economic Factors, Financial Exigency, Financial Support

California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1995
Providing both state-level and individual college data, this two-part report examines the effects of revenue shortfalls on the California Community Colleges during the state's economic recession in the early 1990's and reviews strategies employed to cope with the shortfalls. The first part examines the effect of the recession on the community…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Planning, Community Colleges, Economic Impact
Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto. – 1994
This report reviews economic factors affecting the universities of Ontario, Canada. In 34 tables and 25 figures it provides comparative data with other Canadian and American institutions over the past 15 years. An executive summary reveals that operating grants from the Ontario government have been declining, and that many universities have been…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Expenditures
Koltai, Leslie – 1991
Since 1947, public community colleges have grown faster than any other sector of higher education. Despite the dynamism of the community college movement, the early 1980's saw the beginning of a period of financial retrenchment, fear of declining enrollments, and skepticism about the future. From 1983 through 1987, the number of associate degrees…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Role, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment