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Vetta, Atam – New Universities Quarterly, 1982
A British report recommending widespread compulsory retirement of mathematics faculty based on current enrollment trends and predictions is analyzed and criticized for both its statistics and its assumptions. It is argued that social influences in enrollment and social considerations in public policy toward education are largely being ignored.…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, College Faculty, College Mathematics
