The five objectives of this paper are: (1) to make some observations about the California Community Colleges, (2) to state appropriate goals to be accomplished by a system of public education, (3) to relate these goals to alternative options in possible changes in governance of public education, (4) to relate these goals to possible changes in the…

This report covers the results of a four-part survey designed to update the survey "Delaware Higher Education in the Seventies-1971 Update" in the three areas of enrollment projection, space inventory and space utilization. Also examined is the current development of the long-range facilities plan for each campus. The report recommends that the…

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Kentucky Revised Statutes contain many general provisions under which the institutions and programs of public higher education along with the various other state agencies and programs are administered in Kentucky. Chapters 164 and 165 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, however, contain those…

The report of a study undertaken for long-range planning and evaluation is in two parts. Part One reviews the institution's academic goals (including an historical overview, statement of educational purpose, and a listing of instructional programs, requirements, and curriculum offerings). Part Two contains five-year projections for curriculum…

This task force report to the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York appraises present anxieties and suggests that higher education in New York must speak with one voice supporting efforts to maintain funding and low tuition and efforts to narrow public-private tuition gaps. (JT)

Included in the author's suggestions for solutions to the eclipse of interest in Arts and Science are these: reassert the classical mission of the university, assert a faculty consensus, maintain the disciplines, emphasize decentralization, avoid the beguilement of continuing education, form partnerships with industry, and encourage open…

A plan for all of the state of Maryland's 13 public colleges and universities to be included in the University of Maryland System is discussed. The system would be governed by a board of regents, and each college would have a board of trustees to monitor campus issues. (MLW)

A national study of 272 funds that gathered information on investments' market gains as well as interest and dividend income shows last year's increase in the value of the average endowment was the second-highest 1-year return recorded in the last 12 years. (MSE)

The trends in institutional investment of endowment funds for the year ending June 30, 1984, are analyzed, including average returns, extremes, total endowment values, and the distribution of investments. The data are from an annual national comparative performance survey. (MSE)

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) has issued a "social manifesto" on the future of higher education, "To Secure the Blessings of Liberty." It seeks to chronicle the fundamental changes in America's domestic environment and the resulting challenges to higher education. (MLW)

England's 1984-85 national planning and policy initiative in response to declining resources for public higher education institutions is outlined, and the results of a study of institutional responses to those changes are presented. (MSE)

A committee studying Texas higher education has withdrawn a controversial proposal to merge institutions, instead adopting a broad set of principles for higher education and specific recommendations for state colleges and universities. The objective is to improve education during state economic decline due to falling oil prices. (MSE)

Faced with an increasing need for data by the West Liberty State College administration and the West Virginia Board of Regents, an in-house system was designed that provides online update/inquiry to an integrated, nonredundant collection of data files via user-friendly menus. (Author/MLW)

A Missouri proposal that parents be allowed to set up special savings accounts for their children's college education that would be exempt from state income tax is described. It is compared to a plan in Michigan that allows parents to prepay tuition at colleges in the state. (MLW)

Presents findings from a study of the perceptions of presidents of public and private two-year colleges regarding the major issues facing their institutions currently and in 5 years. Important future issues included financial support, institutional mission achievement, and maintaining enrollments. (DMM)