higher education giving and enrollment issues, K-12 curriculum concerns.

The article presents an update on higher education in the U.S. as of May 2004. Giving to colleges and universities was flat in the 2003 fiscal year, for the second consecutive year, according to an annual survey conducted by the Council for Aid to Education. Estimated private contributions to higher education totaled $23.9 billion, down from $24.2 billion in the year ending in June 2001. Median salaries for midlevel college and university administrators grew by only 2.1 percent in the 2003-2004 academic year, according to an annual survey by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. The survey found that salary increases were greater at private institutions than at public ones, but all increases were less for midlevel managers than in the previous three years. A new database will track citations of online scholarship. The company that compiles highly influential databases on the use of scholarly papers in print has decided to gather similar information on scholarly works that are disseminated solely online, often without peer review. The tool could prove a boon to the distribution of scholarship in cyberspace. The Web Citation Index database will list which scholarly works have cited particular papers published online and it will track citations of traditionally published works by online papers.