Principals must devote a vast amount of time and energy to campus funding and budgetary issues because budgeting and accounting procedures are an integral part of an effective instructional program. In fact, a principal's role in the budgetary process significantly impacts both budget development and instructional planning. Principals who fail to…

Presents and dispels nine popular conceptions concerning the steady state in higher education: dropping enrollments, management techniques, and student aid programs. (Author/PG)

Examines the inaccuracies of national enrollment projections, some of the causes of the limited success, and makes suggestions for improvement. Approaches the problem of making better projections for individual colleges and universities. (Author/PG)

How to shed inefficient institutional weight by forecasting enrollments in various programs and arranging optimum teaching loads, following the lead of Brown University. (Editor)

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a solution to the annual problem of school district grade-wise enrollment projection. From the mathematical forecasting models considered, the exponential smoothing model is chosen and criteria for its evaluation specified. The model is then applied to data from three different school districts, and the…

The proposed merger of the Rye City and Rye Neck school districts in Westchester County, New York, is described. An overview of the two school systems is presented, with a discussion of the principles and issues involved in the proposed merger. Based on hypothetical data for future years, an examination is made of enrollment expectations, facility…

Today's enrollment situation is uncertain, especially in comparison with recent past. Some institutions experience growth in student numbers, while in others enrollments plateau or decline. Nontraditional students challenge a variety of institutional arrangements. Many past assumptions for predicting enrollments are inadequate. Projection studies…

Pressures on higher education institutions are of two types: those that arise from the actions of the government or organized groups; and those that arise from natural'' forces, such as the decline in the birth rate. Higher education will no longer be a growth industry unless new constitutencies can be attracted to its institutions through…

This comprehensive handbook, which emphasizes major planning problems and their solutions, should enable administrators and others to enhance the professional skills they will need for the successful management and operation of statewide systems of higher learning. Chapters cover: design for statewide planning; socioeconomic comparisons among…

Limited to the problem of how to make the best use of existing plant facilities and plan future needs for a country school system, evaluative criteria and standards for existing school buildings with respect to safety, health, space, integration, and flexibility requirements are suggested. A classification scheme for describing facilities based…

A 5-month project was undertaken at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education to do a preliminary study of the implications of growth policy for postsecondary education. The decision to focus on this level of education was based on the belief that the existing problems of growth and its limits have become too urgent to be left to…

One role for institutional research within the university's budget is to provide objective data and informed judgements to help the responsible decisionmaking of the university organization. This report attempts to fulfill this function in organizational intelligence. In the university, as in all responsibly operated enterprises, projections of…

"EnrollForecast for Excel" will generate a 5-year forecast of K-12 student enrollment. It will also work for any combination of grades between kindergarten and twelth. The forecasts can be printed as either a table or a graph. The user must provide birth history (only if forecasting kindergarten) and enrollment history information. The user also…

In past decades the planning process in higher education was based on certainties and assumptions about the source of funds, enrollments and enrollment distribution, levels of expenditures, and faculty. Today, none of these certainties remain. The uncertainties of today involve declining enrollments after 1980, society's capacity to effectively…