Describes how six colleges--Purdue, Knox, Eastern Illinois, Dakota Wesleyan, Michigan Tech, and Andrews--got creative to cut costs and weather the budget crunch. (EV)

Discusses how for fiscal year 2001, Congress earmarked more money for federal projects for specific colleges than ever before. It provided a 60 percent increase over the previous year, although such earmarks have drawn criticism as wasteful and harmful to merit-based competition for funds. Includes a list of top recipients of "pork." (EV)

Describes how, by sponsoring donor-advised funds, colleges are allowing contributors to enjoy tax breaks and philanthropic experience normally reserved for billionaires with their own foundations. (EV)

Describes how, when the Enron Corporation collapsed, Harvard made money while the University of California lost $145 million. (EV)

Explores how public colleges are adapting to a new accounting procedure that gives many of them apparent deficits. (EV)

Describes how Mount Holyoke College and its alumnae association are in a messy public fight over money, specifically who owns an annual fund to which 51 percent of the college's alumni contributed last year. (EV)

Describes how many college money managers are entrusting billions of dollars in endowment wealth to hedge funds, which have a reputation for winning big, and sometimes losing big, too. (EV)

Describes how a long-predicted decline in the fortunes of small private colleges is beginning to show up in the bond market, as the number of colleges now rated in the junk category has nearly doubled. (EV)

Describes how, while many colleges have been hurt by the collapsing financial markets, theological schools are in a particularly tight spot. (EV)

Discusses why college fund raisers are of more than one mind about whether this is a good time to promote gift annuities to donors. (EV)

Describes how, after years of mega-gifts and raised expectations, college fund raisers are struggling to keep campaigns going in a time of economic uncertainty and global tension. (EV)

Discusses how private colleges are feeling the impact of the economic downturn; even wealthy institutions are cutting back, but the smallest institutions appear to be most vulnerable. (EV)

Describes how spending on higher education grew by 4.6 percent in 2001-02, the smallest increase in 5 years. Includes numerous data tables on state appropriations for higher education. (EV)

Discusses how private-equity funds are pouring millions of dollars into higher-education companies, and that college endowments are among the investors. (EV)

Provides data from a new report on college fund raising, which shows that colleges received a record $23.2 billion in gifts in the 1999-2000 academic year, an increase of 13.7 percent over the previous year. Includes tables on gifts by type of institution, and top 20s in total giving, alumni giving, corporate giving, and community college giving.…