This article calls into question the view that educational expansion has a causal effect on class-based inequalities of educational opportunity. This view, the impetus for many studies, is flawed because the empirical literature is hampered by poor measures of expansion and because it rests on simplistic understandings of the causal structure that…

Studies on the cyclicality of higher education examine the relationship between variations in labor market conditions and changes in enrollment. While the majority of the existing literature implicitly assumes an elastic supply of enrollment, this study identifies institutions with supply constraints and investigates how those constraints have…

The nation's most selective colleges are often the centerpiece of the discussion surrounding college choice, and trends in college selectivity are relayed through stories of plunging admission rates at a few high-profile postsecondary institutions and anecdotes of model high school students unable to secure seats at these colleges. Such stories…

Demand for university education has increased due to the recent innovations of universal, free and compulsory education at the basic and senior secondary education level. Education has been expanding very rapidly at all levels in Nigeria. However, there are serious problems related to quality, equity, unavailable human and material resources and…

Private higher education literature recognizes large public-private differentiation in terms of field of study. Relative to public counterparts, private universities tend to offer their services in fields that require low initial investments and present at least relatively attractive internal private rates of return. Thus, the main objective of…

This report presents projections of enrollment in higher education to the year 2000 and develops estimates of the ways in which these enrollment projections would be affected by implementation of the recommendations included. Also presented are enrollment data and projects based on the Commission's classification of institutions of higher…

At the University of Rochester, the Student Search Service of the College Entrance Examination Board identified able and interested students in a variety of regions interested in a number of academic programs to improve enrollment. (PG)

As the State University of New York has become more complex in response to the educational needs of its constituency, it has developed curricular offerings of a widely expanded scope and variety. This document has as its purpose to show enrollment in academic programs at each of the campuses for fall 1968 through fall 1971. The report is in two…

A model is presented in this report for the prediction of future enrollment at the Naval Postgraduate School based on the numbers of recruits in the past. This model utilizes the correlation between populations of successive time periods in order to better estimate the future remaining personnel in the system. The number of personnel leaving from…

The Student Search Service of the College Entrance Examination Board gives colleges an opportunity to pursue potential applicants, thus alleviating enrollment problems. (PG)

The objectives of the Working Party at the 2nd International Conference on Higher Education were to discuss and evaluate the various organizational structures used to cope with the explosion in student enrollment in mass higher education. (PG)

Examined the responses of 107 U.S. colleges and universities to requests for enrollment information to identify the schools that fulfill demand in a timely and effective manner. Explains what makes these schools successful. Most schools had a working Web site, but most did not contact the person making the request by telephone after the initial…

Aggressive recruiting efforts may be off course. The funds might be better spent on research into how higher education can give a quality education to those students who choose it. (Editor)