Discusses whether the President can impound or withold funds appropriated by Congress for higher education. (PG)

Discusses the new federal Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. (PG)

Discusses the new federal Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. (PG)

Criticising human capital analysis as it has been applied to public policy (e.g. seeing educational institutions as means to greater personal and national income and substituting capital for labor, which causes competition for students' borrowed money), the author argues for a negative income tax and an endowment funding for institutions of higher…

Since 1972, the Nixon and Ford administrations have sought to terminate two major "campus-based" student aid programs (Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants and National Direct Student Loans), and to reduce funding of a third, College Work-Study. The policy has been renounced by both Congress and the academic community. (LBH)

The National Endowment for the Humanities is criticized for not providing greater leadership both within the government and among potential sources of private financial support for the humanities. (MSE)

It is argued that despite the decline of the humanities in higher education in the 20 years since the National Endowment for the Humanities came into existence, the agency has probably done much to promote the humanities and prevent further decline. (MSE)

The federal government's Law Enforcement Education Program (LEEP) faces a precarious future. Three problems include: a bureaucratic tug-of-war between the Justice Department and the new Department of Education, the loss of appropriations, and a debate about the values of programs, and the types of courses and degrees offered. (MLW)