The hard choices that must be made to balance budgets at higher education institutions can be painful and have dramatic consequences that may linger for years. If enrollment projections and therefore tuition income/budgeting projections for future years are inaccurate, then the result may be unnecessary or insufficient budget reductions, both of…

Describes an enrollment projection approach that can easily show the complete dynamics of institutional enrollment change and can involve upper management in the development and understanding of important assumptions underlying the projection activity. (Author/MLF)

Surveys current methodologies and problems in enrollment forecasting at the State and institutional level. (Author/MLF)

The provost of Michigan State University discusses erroneous methods of increasing efficiency and other problems in pursuing efficiency at large institutions. He lists 14 actions tried at MSU to improve efficiency and effectiveness. (Author/MLF)

Examines the methodologies, objectives, and assumptions of existing national enrollment projection studies. (Author/MLF)

Community colleges are in a good position to obtain reliable long-term forecasts of future demand. An approach developed at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, has enabled the college to assist other community institutions in their parallel planning efforts. (Author/MLF)

Using the Student Inventory File of the OBOR information system, detailed analyses were conducted on 1971-1975 enrollments in Ohio by institution, count, part-time versus full-time status, age, rank, day-evening, marital status, etc. Data on out-of-state enrollments, graduate students, and professional students were also tabulated. (LBH)