While Freud's reputation is in decline among psychiatrists and psychologists, it is on the rise among literary and film critics, historians, anthropologists, and political scientists, where it is being adopted as a tool to help analyze historical movements, literary works and films, cultural patterns, and political theories. (MSE)

Accuracy in Academia, an organization pledged to monitor college classrooms for evidence of left-wing bias, has had minimal impact on campuses and has turned instead to publication of a somewhat milder ideological student newspaper. (MSE)

College and university personnel directors are encouraged (1) to develop policies concerning acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as it relates to job applicants, personnel records, and services, (2) to counter unfounded fears among co-workers, and (3) to develop and coordinate educational programs within the institution. (MSE)

In the 36 gubernatorial election campaigns in 1986, many candidates are stressing the role of higher education in promoting economic development and creating new jobs, and have declared public education a top priority along with other basic state issues. (MSE)

The response of Harvard University's president to the Secretary of Education's criticisms of higher education and Bok's suggestions for improvement of the college curriculum and enhancement of learning are presented. (MSE)

Planned or deferred giving (through which a donor to a college or university contributes capital in the form of an annuity, life-income trust, insurance policy, pooled income fund, real estate, or other asset, to the institution but retains its financial benefit during his lifetime) is an increasingly popular form of donation to endowments. (MSE)

Data are given for the numbers and proportions of foreign students in the 78 U.S. colleges and universities with the largest foreign enrollments, numerical and proportional changes in the last year by field of study, and the number of students coming from each of 65 countries in each state. (MSE)

Data on state aid to higher education is compiled in a variety of ways, using a variety of classification and and analysis methods, but can be misleading or misused and cause bitter political disputes about the strength of state support. (MSE)

Federal legislation effective in 1994 bars colleges and universities from forcing tenured faculty to retire at age 70. Reactions of unions and professional associations, a required study of the law's impact, and a related measure requiring institutions to continue contributions to pension plans of over-65 workers are discussed. (MSE)

Problems in the use of foreign graduate students as teaching assistants include cumbersome language proficiency testing, limited English proficiency, internal struggles in training programs, and rapidly increasing foreign graduate student enrollments. (MSE)

The substantial increase in foreign graduate students who become teaching assistants has necessitated increased supervision and training, especially in communication skills, teaching methods, learning styles, and discussion group leading. (MSE)

Legislation that passed and died in the 99th Congress is outlined, including acts concerning curriculum and related programs, research, foreign students, faculty and other personnel policies, public agencies, presidential libraries, tax reform, the G.I. Bill, and graduate medical education. (MSE)

Levels of and 2-year changes in state appropriations for higher education are presented for each state and its major institutions, junior colleges as a whole, student aid, and other related appropriations, and the states are ranked, with 2- and 10-year changes and adjustments for inflation indicated. (MSE)

Fiscal 1986 and fiscal 1987 federal budget allocations for Department of Education programs, arts and humanities, the Departments of Defense, Agriculture, Energy, and Health and Human Services, the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other miscellaneous agencies are tabulated. (MSE)

Gallaudet University is beginning a program using computer-assisted telephone fund-raising solicitations of alumni, in a promising use of communications technology. (MSE)