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Peer reviewedIvey, 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
Lund, Mark – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 1998
In Alberta, reductions in educational funding and a "back to basics" mentality have resulted in reduced support for outdoor and environmental education. Elementary/secondary programs have responded by taking the programs directly to the schools to avoid transportation costs, and by cutting the more adventurous programs. Postsecondary…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Environmental Education, Financial Problems, Financial Support
Download full textBlanchette, 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
Peer reviewedPurcell, 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
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
Wilson, Robert A., Ed. – 1982
Proceedings of the 1981 University of Arizona conference on responses to fiscal stress in higher education are presented. Topics include the impact of the federal government on higher education, state and institutional responses to new federal policies, developing responses to fiscal stress, alternate perspectives on fiscal stress, and tactical…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, College Faculty, College Planning
