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Collison, Michele N-K. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
As campus student volunteer activities have grown, colleges have acknowledged the need for better organization by hiring recent graduates to coordinate them. The young deans have proven to be both enthusiastic and effective at this task. (MSE)
Descriptors: Alumni, College Graduates, Deans, Higher Education
Oberlander, Susan – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Charlotte West, a leading candidate for athletic director at Southern Illinois University, may become the only female athletics director at a university playing football in Division I, the top competitive level. She is considered likely to bring men's and women's sports closer together. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrators, College Athletics, Educational Change
Hirschorn, Michael W. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
A year in which most college admissions officials had expected a drop in applicants, many colleges are reporting applications increases of up to 60 percent. On the surface, such figures are cause for celebration, but some feel they are both the product and the cause of current admissions uncertainty. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, Decision Making, Educational Change
Heller, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
Problems in the use of foreign graduate students as teaching assistants include cumbersome language proficiency testing, limited English proficiency, internal struggles in training programs, and rapidly increasing foreign graduate student enrollments. (MSE)
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Language Proficiency
Big Financial Problems Can Beset Colleges that Fail Education Dept. Audits of Student-Aid Practices.
Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
In almost half of the Department of Education's biennial audits of colleges receiving federal financial aid, institutions are found to have made mistakes in aid distribution, and each year the department asks colleges to return $25-million in aid money. Better oversight methods are urged. (MSE)
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Financial Audits, Financial Problems, Higher Education
Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Researchers, economists, and campus administrators who have followed federal student aid programs worry that businesses have turned the Guaranteed Student Loan Program into a lucrative industry that doesn't always have the students' interest in mind, and a congressional study group is also concerned about aspects of the program. (MSE)
Descriptors: Banking, Costs, Federal Programs, Higher Education
Bailey, Anne Lowrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
A year-old foundation at the Georgia Institute of Technology is the first in the country that is entirely student-operated. Students have raised over $150,000 for its endowment, managed its assets, and used interest on the money to finance almost $6,000 in grants for 10 new student projects. (MSE)
Descriptors: Endowment Funds, Entrepreneurship, Fund Raising, Grants
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Proposed National Collegiate Athletic Association rule changes address issues of academic standards, financial aid, program administration, association administration, championships and extra events, athlete eligibility, association membership and institutional classification, playing seasons, and aspects of program deregulation. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Athletics, Competition, Eligibility
Heller, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
The pension-issues committee of the Higher Education Secretariat has issued a report backing an earlier proposal to permit college employees to withdraw more of their accumulated funds at the time of retirement as a one-time funds-transfer benefit, but dropping a call for potential withdrawal at any point during a career. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Finance Reform, Financial Policy, Financial Services
Fecso, Ronald S., Ed. – 1993
This report of the Panel on Quality Improvement in Student Financial Aid Programs examines the quality control of federal student financial aid programs covered by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and offers recommendations calling for sweeping revisions of the present system. The report explores: (1) the quality control practices…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Higher Education
College Presidents and Sports Officials Trade Ideas on Athletic Reforms; Many See Signs of Progress.
Lederman, Douglas – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
While the National Collegiate Athletic Association made no policy changes in its recent meeting, many presidents, athletics directors, and other sports officials attending may have made substantial progress toward reform through extensive exchange of ideas on the notion of federation within divisions, the legislative process, and financial aid…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Athletics, College Presidents, Higher Education

Moyer, Alene; Gonglewski, Margaret – ADFL Bulletin, 1998
Examines the challenges facing new assistant professors in general and language program directors (LPDs) in particular, offering the perspective of two individuals who made the leap from graduate student to LPD, outlining the most significant and universal issues facing new LPDs, and providing insight into balancing the demands of the position…
Descriptors: Administrators, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Violations of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules committed by 24 institutions' athletics programs and the sanctions imposed on them are listed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletic Coaches, Cheating, College Athletics
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1992
A study was done to investigate whether Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) were being awarded to students with the lowest expected family contribution (EFC). The study used data from a 1991 Department of Education study based on a sample of 25,000 undergraduate students drawn from over 1,100 postsecondary institutions across the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Family Financial Resources, Federal Aid
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1993
This report presents the results of an audit of the Principal Financial Statements of the Department of Education's Federal Family Education Loan Program and its internal controls and compliance with laws and regulations for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1992. The report details the following findings: (1) the Statement of Cash Flows were…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Compliance (Legal), Efficiency, Federal Aid
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