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Mason, Thomas R. – 1984
Planning issues for colleges seeking to maintain quality in institutional programs in the face of retrenchment are analyzed, based on a literature review. An extensive bibliography on the following topics is provided: quality (ratings, rankings, reform, institutional goals, and educational outcomes); retrenchment (enrollment decline, faculty,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Declining Enrollment, Economic Climate
Peer reviewedSedgwick, Alexander; Lowery, Barbara – Academe, 1983
The course of enrollments, events, and decision-making leading up to the 1980 dismissal of five faculty at Goucher College is outlined in terms of: financial exigency, termination of tenured appointments, ruptures in due process and faculty participation, and absence of a decision for program discontinuance. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty, Contracts
Download full textNational Center for Higher Education Management Systems, Boulder, CO. – 1982
A bibliography on decline and retrenchment in higher education is presented that includes publications from the fields of higher education, the organization sciences, and public administration. The objective is to make available the reference tools that have been useful in conducting the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems'…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Budgets, College Administration, Declining Enrollment
Mingle, James R. – 1982
Adjustments that state policy-makers and institutions of higher education will need to make as they face cutbacks in public support and declining enrollments are described, based in part on a research project on retrenchment in higher education conducted by the Southern Regional Education Board. Given the long-term contractual obligations of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgeting, College Planning, Declining Enrollment
Mingle, James R.; Norris, Donald M. – 1981
Experiences of the 1970s and prospects for the 1980s of colleges that had undergone enrollment decline and/or financial cutbacks were surveyed, based on visits to 20 colleges and universities in 11 states in the Northeast, Midwest, and South. Some of the strategies to resist and overcome decline have potential for success in a wide range of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Faculty
Smith, Donald K. – 1980
Planning by the University of Wisconsin system for rational management of projected enrollment and fiscal decline is considered. It is suggested that a change in a college or university's mission may be an instrument for enabling a particular institution to meet unusual problems of declining resources. The elimination and consolidation of courses…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Curriculum, College Planning, College Role
Mortimer, Kenneth P.; Tierney, Michael L. – 1979
Some of the responses of colleges and universities to declining enrollments and diminishing resources are reviewed. Institutions have tried to reduce the size of their operations, reallocate resources internally, and retrench a number of faculty and programs. Several approaches to reductions, reallocations, and retrenchments in specific cases,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Check Lists, College Administration, Declining Enrollment
