While it is a land-grant university with ambitious plans, the University of the District of Columbia faces the problems posed by its urban context, expectations, small endowment, administrative turnover, and administrative scandals. (MSE)

A College Board study found that over seven years, college charges rose 56 percent to 80 percent, while institutional, state, and federal aid rose only 20 percent and dramatic shifts in the composition of federal aid occurred. (MSE)

A Colorado Supreme Court ruling rejecting a student's liability claim for an injury sustained in a fraternity house is the second this year in which a court found no special university responsibility to protect student safety in private activities. (MSE)

Data on federal, state, and institutional student financial aid are presented by year, aid category, and amount awarded per recipient, in both current and constant dollars. (MSE)

Proposed National Collegiate Athletic Association rules changes concern Presidents' Commission grouping, academic standards and transfer, financial aid, amateurism, championships and extra events, drug testing, administrative regulation, financial audits, coaches' outside compensation, voting privileges, membership and classification, enforcement,…

More and more young Black males are choosing to enlist in the military, attend vocational and technical schools, or take jobs instead of going to college. Many yield to peer pressure and stop studying; further, role models do not exist for young Black men. (MLW)

A profile of Ralph Ketcham, CASE's Professor of the Year, is presented. Although he is a historian of American political thought, his most recent book focuses on the role of the citizen in society. (MLW)

At the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, scholars deplored the lack of attention paid to the history and culture of ethnic and minority groups. Scholars have recently expanded their understanding of "American" to include Canada, Central and South America. (MLW)

Officials on 10 campuses that are testing the new income contingent loans say that borrowers don't understand how it works, and they predict that students would not like the new loans because the interest rates are so high that it could take a life-time to pay the money back. (MLW)

The top 100 institutions in total federal obligations for fiscal 1986 are listed showing research and development obligations as well as total federal obligations. (MLW)

Richard J. Mahaffy, II, the only deaf student at Trinity College, and a senior who can hear are teaching a course called "Understanding Deafness." They have covered topics such as the causes of deafness, the advantages of sign language over oral communication, and the psychological implications of being deaf. (MLW)

The proliferation of committees studying the question of whether college fraternities should continue to be recognized suggests a move toward the groups' inevitable extinction. If colleges say they do not discriminate, they cannot justify discriminatory actions by recognized campus organizations. (MLW)

Two-year colleges are trying to change legislators' perceptions about their institutions, demanding increased state support, and working together to lobby as a state system rather than as individual institutions. (MSE)

The National Security Council has barred the National Science Foundation from providing a grant to help finance American participation in East-West research because the federal government cannot control the research, causing the institute's supporters to seek money directly from Congress. (MSE)

Experimental computer programs are being developed to teach students at all levels and in a wide variety of training fields and track their progress at the same time. (MSE)