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Reflects on personal experience as a faculty member of California State U, Chico, who was appointed to evaluate higher education finances from within the state legislature during dramatic 1990s budget reductions. The manner in which state funds are appropriated for higher education & failures of the legislative oversight process has resulted in a lack of control of CA college & university spending patterns. A series of hearings, convened in 1996 by the Budget Subcommittee of the CA legislature, revealed serious malfeasance on the part of university administrators, particularly in the area of affirmative action programs. It also revealed that projected demands on the state budget in the near future by health & welfare, prisons, & K-12 schools will make the goals of the CA Master Plan for higher education attainable. Universities & colleges are likely to respond to this crisis by even more dramatic cuts in tenured faculty & a further degradation of educational content. D. Ryfe

"Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, with particular attention to elementary and secondary education. Chapters from the first edition have been fully updated and revised to reflect current developments, new policies, and recent research. With new chapters on teacher evaluation, alternatives to traditional public schooling, and cost-benefit analysis, this volume provides a readily available current resource for anyone involved in education finance and policy. The Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy traces the evolution of the field from its initial focus on school inputs and revenue sources used to finance these inputs, to a focus on educational outcomes and the larger policies used to achieve them. Chapters show how the current decision-making context in school finance inevitably interacts with those of governance, accountability, privatization, and other areas of education policy. Because a full understanding of important contemporary issues requires inputs from a variety of perspectives, the Handbook draws on contributors from a number of disciplines. Although many of the chapters cover complex, state-of-the-art empirical research, the authors explain key concepts in language that non-specialists can understand. This comprehensive, balanced, and accessible resource provides a wealth of factual information, data, and wisdom to help educators improve the quality of education in the United States"--

Throughout Europe and especially the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, universities and governments are evaluating ways to finance higher education other than the current dominant model of almost total government support. With government pressure to use limited funds in other areas (e.g., health care, environment, and the like) higher education institutions are being encouraged to become more economically self-sufficient. Some of these reforms have included establishing closer ties with regional businesses and introducing tuition and user fees to offset some of the costs of university operations. The particular focus of this report is on the new methods of financing higher education in the Czech Republic.