The United Negro College Fund faces questions about the quality of its institutions and questions from some of its own presidents about how well it represents their interests. The Fund now helps its members improve their management, get more federal aid, build their endowments, recruit students, and gain reaccreditation. (MLW)

The president of the Council on Foundations, James A. Joseph, urges educators to develop volunteers who can eliminate the causes of social problems. Colleges and universities are in a special position to instill a sense of social responsibility in students. (MLW)

A table shows tuition and fees for 315 colleges for the 1986-87 and 1987-88 academic years, including the additional tuition that many public institutions charge to out-of-state students. The figures were compiled by the College Scholarship Service. (MLW)

Haverford College is striving to keep the spirit of collegiate cricket alive. That spirit is aided by one of the world's finest collections of cricket records and memorabilia. At Haverford, cricket is an official varsity sport. About 50 colleges currently sponsor cricket teams. (MLW)

A few medical schools have introduced a significant innovation--the problem-based curriculum. Students meet in small tutorials and consider biomedical problems that they cannot solve without acquiring new information and skills. This experiment at Harvard gives "respectability" to the curriculum. (MLW)

In a period of educational change, land-grant universities are re-examining their role in agricultural education and extension education, their relationship with the state, and their future in the higher education system. (MSE)

Researchers of Black American culture argue that interpretations of their experience are skewed by academe's Western perspective, and are becoming champions of Afrocentricity. (MSE)

Potential threats to academic freedom from within the institution are increasing, including faculty lawsuits over tenure and appointment decisions, research-related conflicts of interest, collective bargaining processes, and the use of academic freedom as a catch-all protest. (MSE)

The effects of the October 1987 stock market crash on older faculty pension funds, gifts and capital drives, endowment funds, and foundation losses and cutbacks are examined. (MSE)

Federal agencies have had to begin making automatic budget reductions according to the new version of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction law, resulting in increased student loan fees and decreased banker subsidies. (MSE)

Black land-grant institutions have undergone dramatic changes in the last two decades, being forced to reevaluate their missions, develop new student recruitment strategies, and forge new relationships with predominantly White colleges and state legislatures in an effort to survive and to serve their clientele. (MSE)

A number of organizations are working with alumni of Black colleges and with Black churches to attract more students to the campuses, raise money for financially strapped institutions (particularly for scholarships) and promote more alumni participation in college affairs. (MSE)

A summary of foreign student enrollments lists the 78 institutions with the largest enrollments and their proportions of the student body, student distribution by field of study, a ranking of countries of origin, and the number of foreign students in each state. (MSE)

China's national leadership is committed to a vast upgrading of education, and the pervasive spirit of reform in economics and politics is leading to higher expectations of higher education. Reforms are targeted in the system's structure, deemphasis on specialization, new emphasis on applied science, and faculty qualifications and productivity.…

New criteria for university management of campus dissent, student and faculty discipline, and reporting of campus incidents, issued by the South African government as a condition for government subsidies, are presented. (MSE)