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Ivey, Saundra – Change, 1981
Financial pressures and the possibility of a major desegregation suit have dominated the 1980-81 academic year for Tennessee's public colleges and universities. The higher education community is moving toward managing the decline with limitations on enrollment and by eliminating unnecessary duplicated academic programs. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Desegregation, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Economic Factors
Blanchette, Cornelia M. – 1995
This report evaluates Department of Education opportunities to consolidate overlapping education programs, to find cost savings, and to strengthen its "gatekeeping" over schools' participation in student financial aid programs. It notes that, besides already proposed program consolidation, other programs that could be streamlined include…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Eligibility
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Purcell, Jeanne H. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1995
This study examined the status of local gifted education programs in 19 states and reasons attributed by 1,579 educators for the status of the programs. Programs in states with gifted education mandates and good economic health were intact and expanded, while programs in states without mandates or in poor economic health were threatened. (SW)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Economic Factors, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
National 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
Melchiori, Gerlinda S. – 1981
The involvement of state agencies in program discontinuance in higher education was studied, based on the responses of 46 agencies. It was found that 32 state agencies were actively involved in recommending, initiating, or enforcing actual discontinuances. The following eight categories of obstacles to program discontinuance were identified: legal…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Conflict Resolution, Economic Factors