The National Collegiate Athletic Association endorses rules requiring coaches to report all athletics-related income to their institutions, prohibiting institution name or logotype use for personal gain without permission, requiring institutions to control collection and distribution of manufacturer contract income, and prohibiting personal gain…

A new Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching study, "College: The Undergraduate Experence in America," reports deep divisions, conflicting priorities, and competing interests on college campuses that diminish the social and intellectual quality of the undergraduate experience. (MSE)

The Soviet Union is undertaking a drive for excellence in higher education by tightening academic standards, closing weaker institutions, changing admission criteria, experimenting with instructional approaches in some institutions, and increasing efforts at labor force development and training programs tied to national economic needs. (MSE)

An interagency committee recommends more university and industry involvement in efforts to stop the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and find a cure, and encourages increased federal funding and assurances that funding will be ongoing for both basic biological and AIDS research. (MSE)

A recent study of the administrative characteristics, attitudes toward leadership and management, and personal and professional background of college presidents named by their peers as effective chief executives is reported. (MSE)

The 100 college and university leaders named as most effective in a survey of higher education specialists are listed by institution type. (MSE)

Partial text is presented of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's recent report, "College: The Undergraduate Experience in America" concerning confused priorities and competing interests jeopardizing the college experience's quality and future. (MSE)

Incidents in the 1986 election year have called into question the appropriate role of senior administrators and trustees of public universities who want to participate in state political campaigns and the balance of personal rights to involvement with the need to preserve their institutions' independence. (MSE)

A coalition of 650 grant-making and non-profit organizations has begun a drive to double charitable giving by individuals in the United States and increase by 50% their volunteer activities by 1991, using national advertising and grassroots activities and focusing on the current highest givers of time and money. (MSE)

A panel of educators, business leaders, and government officials convened by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), recommends massive, state-by-state educational change by increasing the proportion of American college graduates, giving public institutions major responsibility for teacher education, and encouraging…

Medical education leaders find medical schools have failed to adapt programs to changing health care needs and are keeping enrollments high despite projected physician surpluses, favoring clinical work over teaching, overextending research efforts, and neglecting ambulatory care, cost containment, elderly care, and socieconomic factors of illness.…

Foreign language teachers' organization leaders criticize the ideas and planning behind a privately-funded National Foreign Language Center, charging that: they were not adequately involved in its preparation, adult language education would be overemphasized, the funds could be used otherwise, and a tendency toward a single language education…

The pension-issues committee of the Higher Education Secretariat has issued a report backing an earlier proposal to permit college employees to withdraw more of their accumulated funds at the time of retirement as a one-time funds-transfer benefit, but dropping a call for potential withdrawal at any point during a career. (MSE)

State higher education-related referenda and 1986 voter response are listed concerning compensation of state employees, facility improvement, bond issues, English as the official state language, taxes and tax policy, lotteries for financing education, state trust funds for education funding, and governing boards. (MSE)

The winners of the 36 1986 gubernatorial elections, their party affiliations, and their views on state issues affecting higher education finance, governance, change, and priorities are summarized. (MSE)