Discusses the strategy proposed by the Committee for Economic Development which suggests higher education institutions make management improvements, increase tuition charges, and retarget governmental aid. (CC)

Summarizes Congressional debate and legislative action on federal aid to education in 1971-1972 which established authorization programs through fiscal year 1975, and describes each of the ten Titles of the Act, including Title I - Higher Education, Title II - Vocational Education, Title VII - Emergency School Aid Act, Title VIII - General…

Student vouchers for higher education may have some positive impact on efficiency and equity in the operations of higher education, but the overall effects will not be changed since the uneven nature of government financing will not alter our social, political and economic environments. (Author/PG)

Lists some developments in educational finance and stresses the need for community and junior college educators to understand the problems of educational economics and to ensure that their opinions are heard by the state and federal government. (Author/RK)

Author recommends a tuition/loan program for college students but warns that higher education is an institution peculiarly inadequate for redistributing income in favor of the poor. (Editor/MB)

Colleges must investigate financing options before they are needed by their students and be ready to help students find new and creative ways to fund their education. Tax-exempt financing options, new sources of loan capital, cooperative arrangements with state agencies, and new federal aid are among the possibilities to explore. (Author/MSE)

Maintains that colleges and universities in the United States need not close their doors as a result of declining enrollments in the 1980s. Cites evidence to support this contention and suggests that institutions of higher education increase efforts to fully integrate programs for adult learners with those for traditional students. (DB)

Looks at how the Reagan administration's proposed federal budget cuts may impact on the amount of money New Jersey will receive under various federal programs, including block grants, the Elementary Secondary Education Act titles, the Child Nutrition Act, and guaranteed student loans. (SJL)

An interview with the Department of Education's Secretary Shirley Hufstedler reveals her viewpoints on higher education's problems and their solutions and her own goals and priorities as the first secretary. Minority students, access to education, financial pressures facing institutions, and burdens on institutions trying to administer federal…

This article analyzes "skyrocketing" student debt levels, discussing debt burden, borrowing trends among student subpopulations, and why debt is increasing. It asserts that to reverse these trends, particularly among low-income and minority families, Congress must increase grant aid, lower the cost of borrowing to students, and make repayment less…

Data from three national databases were used to investigate the relationship between college student characteristics and college characteristics and patterns in loan repayment and default. Analysis suggested that repayment/default behavior can be predicted by precollege, college, and postcollege characteristics of individual borrowers but not by…

The Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) and the Clinton Administration are preparing legislation to transform the federally sponsored corporation into a private business but must negotiate complex political and financial issues. Destabilization of the private student-loan industry and conflict over direct-lending policies are central…

This article examines a 1993 decision by the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the right of the Atlanta College of Medical and Dental Careers, Inc., to appeal the U.S. Department of Education's decision to eliminate it from the federal student loan program because of high loan default rates. (MDM)

This paper describes the current system of university finance in Botswana and considers alternative options, including the introduction of student loans. A Presidential Commission in 1990 recommended that the present Bursary system be reorganized into a grant/loan system, but this proposal has not yet been implemented. (DB)