Florida benefits from a unique private-public partnership that encourages the 11 state universities to establish endowments for academic initiatives. The basic premise is to provide donors with an incentive in the form of matching state grants, thereby increasing the value of the donation. Since 1979, the state universities have used the matching…

Explores the governance and finance of California's nearly 100 community colleges. (Author)

Issues for school finance reform raised by capitalization are addressed; conditions necessary for capitalization, the process, and the two main theories presented in the literature are discussed; and the capitalization effects of changed state aid to education and the implications of these effects are provided. (RL)

The prudent school administrator will keep open the lines of communication to his or her fuel supplier and will learn who in the state government is in control of the state's emergency supply of fuel oil. (Author/IRT)

As part of his discussion, the author presents seven criteria that may be used to evaluate the plan a state uses to support the community colleges. (IRT)

Describes how $850 million from private technology companies and the state have begun pouring into nanoscience at SUNY-Albany. (EV)

Describes how the failure of state lawmakers to pass a budget by the start of the fiscal year forced the partial shutdown of Tennessee's public colleges. (EV)

Investigates variations in state funding programs for school building needs. Includes table of 2001-02 primary state aid programs for school facilities. Also describes use of local voter-approved bond issues to fund local school construction. Includes table of 2001-02 state bond programs, debt limits, and state aid for debt. Discusses emerging…

Assesses and compares states and their efforts to fund public higher education capital needs, ranking them by operating appropriations per student and capital appropriations per student. Data shows that states use varied assessment and appropriations methods, that states are challenged by deferred maintenance, and that they often lack long-range…

Describes how increased lobbying by community colleges is yielding payoffs in state legislatures and Congress and significantly more federal earmarks. Discusses how increased financial support may also be due to community colleges' responsiveness to states' economic needs. (EV)

Describes positive developments for the University of Hawaii system after an 11-percent loss of funding since 1993. Discusses administrator, faculty, and student responses to the financial pressures. (EV)