Reminiscences by the president emeritus of Pacific University provide a short course in how to retire gracefully. (Editor)

Presents some of the basics to help understand micrographics for higher education institutions including: the history of records management; terminology glossary; examples of use of microfiche in libraries and in medical education; new products; buyers guide; and where to go for more information. (PG)

Giving students what they want, such as carpeting and kitchens, is bringing them back to campus housing, and innovations such as letting students do the decorating are making it financially possible for many colleges to upgrade student housing. (Author)

Presents a plan to found a new college that is completely self-efficient, with student tuition payments covering the entire costs of operating the institution. (Author/PG)

Presents a discussion with Charles R. DeCarlo, president of Sarah Lawrence College, who left IBM to seek more humanistic values, and became a cost-cutting educational administrator. (Author/PG)

In at least some cases, the purpose of the donor and the college treasury may be better served by the gift of land or an interest in land, with a long-term lease-back. (Author)

Before making the choice of renovating an old building or constructing a new one on the same site or at a new site, many considerations must be taken into account: available funds, time, energy sources, environmental and social impact, relationship to other buildings, and the condition of the old building itself. (Author)

A new computer program, DECADE, enabled the administration of Wabash College to experiment with rates for tuition, admission, faculty appointments, and to gauge their effects on a simulation model of the college over a 10-year period. (Author/PG)

When food prices skyrocketed last summer and fall, food service directors met the challenge with a variety of strategies from meatless meals to selling students on the concept of food conservation. (Author)

Describes an analysis by the University of Maine of the expenditures and support of public higher education in Maine vis-a-vis the expenditures and support of public higher education in comparable states. (Author)

Defines sex discrimination in higher education in the following areas: admissions and Title IX provisions, types of discrimination in admissions, additional factors that affect admissions policies, affirmative recruiting and preference admissions, and how to end discrimination in admissions. (PG)

Presents a study to determine what trends were common and what differences could be identified in percentage of degrees granted with honors. Concludes that institutions must either move into a pass-fail approach with no honors, or return to a more dedicated approach to student evaluation. (Author/PG)