This report reviews the proposal by the Rancho Santiago Community College District to convert its facility in Orange to a state-approved educational center. Educational centers are a cost-effective means for meeting increased student demand and of serving a region's educational needs because they often involve collaboration and shared facility use…

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)

BASED ON WASHINTON STATE ENROLLMENT REPORT INFORMATION FOR THE YEARS 1963, 1964, AND 1965 AND FROM THE OPENING OF TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN 1965, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT A NEW COLLEGE WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL ENROLLMENT IN ITS IMMEDIATE AREA AND WILL HAVE NO MEASURABLE EFFECT ON THE ENROLLMENT OF OLDER INSTITUTIONS. IN THE CASE OF TACOMA,…

RECENT LEGISLATION IN PUERTO RICO HAS VALIDATED THE 2-YEAR REGIONAL COLLEGE CONCEPT, AND THE CHARACTER OF THE PROGRAM COMBINING LIBERAL ARTS TRANSFER CURRICULUMS AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION HAS BEEN SET. TO IMPLEMENT THE PLANNING PHASES, THIS STUDY PREDICTS STUDENT ENROLLMENT BY REGION. TWO INDEXES ARE USED TO ESTIMATE STUDENT DEMAND--COLLEGE…

A research project concerned with college planning for the period 1960-1985 is described. Five basic questions were discussed--(1) what is the outlook for population changes, for the country as a whole and by categories of the population? (2) what is the outlook for jobs, and what are the implications for training? (3) what is the outlook for…

Assumptions, purposes, and factors of short range estimates and long range projections are discussed. The combined ratio method and the cohort-survival techniques were procedures used for making estimates and projections of student enrollment. The projection for the state system is discussed in terms of sub-projections for undergraduates,…

FEASIBILITY STUDIES COMPLETED IN THE ROOSEVELT, UTAH, AREA INDICATE THAT THE EXISTING POST-HIGH SCHOOL INSTITUTIONS MEET THE NEEDS OF THE AREA WELL. ESTIMATES OF POTENTIAL ENROLLMENT INDICATE THAT FEWER THAN 300 REGULAR STUDENTS FROM THE REGION CAN BE EXPECTED IN ANY YEAR FOR AT LEAST A DECADE AHEAD. ALSO A MAJOR PROPORTION OF THE STUDENTS, WHICH…

Hoping to assure that the college remains responsive to the community, this study focuses on some of the factors which will affect Johnson County Community College's evolution over the next 20 years. Toward that end, the demographic features of Johnson County have been analyzed and projected as well as factors pertinent to and descriptive of…

A model is presented that combines a polynomial lag econometric model with a goal programming model to satisfy the known conditions while making efficient use of limited data. The model is applied to data for a large public university. (Author/MLW)

THIS MASTER PLAN ESTIMATES FUTURE JUNIOR COLLEGE POPULATIONS AND THE MINIMUM NECESSARY ENROLLMENT PER COLLEGE, PROPOSES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ENOUGH JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICTS TO ACCOMMODATE THEM, AND SUGGESTS CERTAIN CURRICULUMS. BASED ON THE NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES IN 1963, PROJECTIONS WERE MADE FOR 1968 TO 1977, AND PROJECTIONS ON THESE…

A POPULATION INCREASE OF 71 PERCENT IS EXPECTED IN UTAH BETWEEN 1960 AND 1980. THE GREATEST GROWTH IS EXPECTED IN THE SALT LAKE METROPOLITAN AREA. THE COLLEGE AGE GROUP (18 TO 21 YEARS) WILL INCREASE BY 80 PERCENT BETWEEN 1960 AND 1970. IF CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES ARE USED, THE PROPOSED JUNIOR COLLEGE COULD EXPECT AN ENROLLMENT OF APPROXIMATELY…

SEVERAL PROPOSALS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES ARE DISCUSSED. FACTORS ARE PRESENTED WHICH RULE OUT A LOCAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR THE ADIRONDACK LAKES REGION AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BRANCH OF THE CANTON AGRICULTURAL-TECHNICAL COLLEGE IN THE LAKES AREA. CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE GIVEN, THOUGH, TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN OR NEAR…

This review deals with the interest of some junior college educators in taking a stand against the belief that community college enrollments will continue to increase indefinitely. The first stand was made by the Arizona State Board of Directors for Junior Colleges, which called for at least 5-year moratorium on new junior colleges after 1969 in…

Enrollment management deals with the quantity of students an institution enrolls; student body composition; and the quality of students, services, and programs. The enrollment growth in American higher education institutions has ceased and a decline is expected due to: (1) lack of financial aid; (2) a prosperous economy; (3) a less promising job…

This report provides a 5-year projection regarding finances and influencing conditions for the Metropolitan Community College District. The first section details revenue assumptions, focusing on historical and projected enrollments, district tax revenues, state aid, student fees, federal and vocational revenue, investments,…