U.VA. FINANCE EXPERT TO GIVE 1996 WILLIAM AND MARY 
ANNUAL HIGHER EDUCATION LECTURE

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 3 -- David W. Breneman, dean of
the University of VirginiaÕs Curry School of Education, will present
the 1996 William and Mary Annual Higher Education Lecture on April
17.  The program brings together higher education leaders to discuss
significant issues of current concern to colleges and universities.
	Breneman will address the William and Mary community,
members of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia,
members of other colleges in the area and the general public, at the
William and Mary University Center, Room Tidewater A , at 7:30 p.m.
	In his address, ÒHigher Education: On a Collision Course
with New Realities,Ó Breneman, a noted authority on higher education
financing, will discuss recent trends in public and private
financing of higher education, with reference to state and federal
policy, tuition, philanthropy and endowment earnings.  He will also
describe issues related to the shortfall of funds that are plaguing
higher education in America.
	Roger G. Baldwin, associate professor and higher education
program coordinator in the College of William and Mary's School of
Education, noted that BrenemanÕs experience at the Brookings
Institute, Kalamazoo College (where he served as president), Harvard
University, and the University of Virginia gives him a distinctive
perspective on the economics and finance of American higher
education.
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April 2, 1996

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