Two Supreme Court decisions, in two union cases involving plans giving minorities preferences in hiring and promotion, rejected the Reagan Administration's contention that only proven victims of bias could benefit from race-conscious employment decisions. (MLW)

Recent state appropriations for higher education in Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont are tabulated. Governors in all those states signed spending bills for higher education. (MLW)

The death of a basketball player at the University of Maryland is giving new impetus to proposals to toughen the testing of athletes for drugs and to tighten limits on the time college players devote to their sports. Developments at Maryland and the National Collegiate Athletic Association are described. (MLW)

The National Education Association's response to the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy proposals for school reform gives qualified support to suggestions for changes in teacher training and certification. (MSE)

The American Federation of Teachers' response to the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy proposals for school reform expresses support for the reform concepts and for experimentation and implementation at the local level. (MSE)

Results of a national survey of drug and alcohol use and smoking among college students are summarized, and the U.S. Secretary of Education's remarks to college presidents concerning their role in changing the trend are reported. (MSE)

Winners of a national contest for cost-cutting in campus maintenance, institutional planning, and program administration and the nature of their innovations are reported. (MSE)

A variety of alternatives to traditional means of financing a college education are being developed by states and institutions in response to rising tuitions. The ideas, including novel payment and loan plans and tuition futures, are often controversial because of the risks they entail. (MSE)

College and university appropriations are summarized, including special project support, and tuition and salary changes made in signed legislation in California, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. (MSE)

Data on the numbers and proportions of American Indian, Asian, black, Hispanic, white, and foreign students in American colleges and universities are reported for males and females, by institution type, level of study, state, and campus. (MSE)

The National Collegiate Flying Association's annual national competition in flight skills and safety involves competition among flight-trained college students and teams in precision landing with and without engines, cross-country navigation, flight-computer accuracy, message drops, preflight inspection proficiency, and aircraft recognition. (MSE)

The text of a report by the Education Commission of the States study panel is presented, offering eight challenges and 22 recommendations to state leaders concerning student preparation for life after college, college preparation, college participation and completion, student diversity, student involvement and performance, faculty motivation, and…

Data are tabulated on the proportion of colleges and universities reporting institutional response to reports on curricular reform, use of measures of institutional effectiveness, methods of measurement, administrator attitudes about assessment, enrollment changes, and changes in institutional finances, for universities, four-year colleges,…

Campus and administrative concerns about pornography on campus are increasing, including controversy over sale of periodicals on campus, screening of sexually explicit movies, student participation in films as actors, and education of students about social issues related to pornography. (MSE)

While business administration educators are increasingly using computers for instruction, incorporating administrative computing into course content and classroom activity, requiring computer literacy of students, adding courses in high-technology management, and creating departments of management information systems, no general theory of…