Lending and secondary market activities of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) since it began operations in 1973 were reviewed. Specific areas of review were: the Association's legislative development and financial activities, its profitability compared to commercial banks and other government-sponsored enterprises that provide…

This booklet on savings and investment, 1 in a series of 12, covers all the basic aspects of personal- and family-money management. Suitable for use by high school and college students as well as adults, this handbook shows how to develop a savings and investment program based on present and future needs and goals. Section 1 overviews savings and…

A committee report on the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) is presented, along with a five-page summary of the report. The full report addresses the specifics of various pensions issues, many of a technical nature, and focuses on the flexibility of the plans for TIAA-CREF policyholders. Two…

Report of a symposium (General Meeting) at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.

The model developed in this article is intended to help the finance manager of a tuition-supported school make calculated investments of surplus moneys. It is designed to make funds available to pay salaries and bills when needed and to add interest in increasingly larger amounts to the available funds of the school. It assumes that the finance…

Low cost as well as timely statistics are required of University policy planning decisions regarding student housing. Since a data bank already existed at the University of Wisconsin, a study of student housing needs could readily be undertaken by means of a computer. The study defines the status of the existing supply and demand in student…

Success for the business administrator depends largely on ability to identify priorities and to direct time, energy, and know-how accordingly. This study attempted to find out the priorities of the tasks of accounting and financial planning for school business administrators and the precise nature of the school business administrator's…

This report summarizes the findings of one of fourteen panels that studied progress in space science applications and defined user needs potentially capable of being met by space-system applications. The study was requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was conducted by the Space Applications Board. The panels…

The purpose of cost-benefit analysis is to provide a guide for rational resource allocation by assessing the future benefits of an investment against the costs incurred in the present. For educational planners, this type of analysis is made difficult by the noneconomic costs and benefits in education and also by the extensive time-lag that exists…

This report provides financial aid administrators and other interested researchers with an overview and the rationale of the College Investment Decision Study while also placing it in perspective in relation to the objectives and orientations of other recent major microeconomic surveys. A brief description is given of each of the six other…

This document reports the results of a New York State survey undertaken to determine if school districts invested all available funds not needed to meet immediate operating expenses and if interest rates on their investments were competitive with rates generally available for comparable investments at the time of investment. Findings indicate that…

To improve long-range vocational education planning in Maine, this study examined and evaluated the feasibility of replacing the manpower approach to planning with an investment approach. A survey of machinists was conducted to develop an instrument for measuring program benefits as part of the investment approach to program evaluation and…

The economic benefits and investment functions of education and its relationship to other human resource investments are reported. In addition, a report on the revenue yields of various taxes related to economic conditions is included. The concept of human investment is discussed from the standpoint of its similarities with physical capital…

In this paper, the process of how cultural norms of the society of Bawang villagers in Ilocos Norte, Philippines have served to channel emigrant wealth into land purchase rather than into entrepreneurial investment and the corresponding effects this investment has had on local social organization are explored. (Author/WI)

Describes the basic concept of university-based innovation centers, which are sponsored by the NSF, to involve the students in the process of innovation and entrepreneurship. Gives numerous examples of success where the final outcome has been a new product or even a new company. (GA)