The School of Management (SOM) at Union Graduate College (UGC) used student trajectories to forecast both individual course and total enrollments within and across various student categories. (The term "trajectory" refers to the enrollment pattern of the average student in a particular category.) The trajectories and the resultant…

The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and the Board of Governors are pleased to release the "2021-22 Five-Year Capital Outlay Plan for the California Community Colleges." To support community college districts grow and improve their educational facilities, the Facilities Planning Unit of the California Community Colleges…

The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and the Board of Governors are pleased to release the "2020-21 Five-Year Capital Outlay Plan for the California Community Colleges." To support community college districts grow and improve their educational facilities, the Facilities Planning Unit of the California Community Colleges…

The Governor of California annually submits a five-year capital infrastructure plan to the Legislature in conjunction with the governor's budget. To accomplish this, every entity of state government is required to provide to the Department of Finance information related to capital infrastructure needs and costs for a five-year period. This report…

Providing support for institutional planning is central to the function of institutional research. Necessary for the planning process are accurate enrollment projections. The purpose of the present study was to develop a short-term enrollment model simple enough to be understood by those who rely on it, yet sufficiently complex to serve varying…

The California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) recognizes the importance of educational centers as a cost-effective means for meeting increased student demand. Educational centers are an economical way of serving a region's educational needs because they often involve collaboration and shared facility use with high schools, university…

The general solution to the problem of calculating school enrollments at time (t-1) necessary to meet predetermined graduation or manpower targets at time (t) is derived and examined. The solution, which is obtained by minimizing the squared discrepancy between the given graduations and those predicted by the enrollments, requires the unique…

Presents a 4-step procedure for projecting district enrollment for the next five years. (Author/DN)

Reviews procedures used to compute participation rates, analyze some problems arising during these computations, and discuss their application to two educational planning products--recruitment and enrollment projections, particularly as they are used in the planning of higher education. (Author)

The California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) is pleased to present "Ready or Not, Here They Come: The Complete Series of Undergraduate Enrollment Demand and Capacity Projections. 2009-2019." This series updates their statewide enrollment demand and institutional capacity reports published in 1995, 2000, and 2004. The findings…

The Los Rios Community College District has proposed to convert its Davis outreach operations to a single, state-approved educational center. The proposal responds to the district's need to expand educational services in the Davis area. The area is marked by high student demand and limited instructional facilities. In the 2006-07 academic year,…

Provides a solution to the growth problem in higher education libraries by means of a formula based on such variables as enrollment, size of faculty, number of graduate fields, etc. (Author/PG)

The present report constitutes the second volume of a comprehensive survey on the expansion of higher education in OECD countries during the period 1950-1967. Chapter 1 is an analysis of the evolution of enrollments in the 2 main types of higher education - universities and nonuniversities - and attempts to compare their relative growth rates…

This study presents projected higher education enrollment statistics for the state of Kentucky through the year 1985. The researchers compiling the data necessarily had to base these projections on assumptions that things would continue changing at the same rate as in the past, i.e., birth rate, percent of high school graduates continuing to…

Discusses eight steps for bringing educational excellence to a community. (JF)