Examines population data and their implications for higher education, such as steady-state staffing and a rise in continuing education. (Editor/PG)

In the process of restructuring higher education to meet the needs of particular populations of students, we have also engineered a restoration of meaning and thus created the materials necessary to construct an appropriate sense of community in higher education. (Author/PG)

Although leadership in the face of a declining school enrollment sounds bleak, this trend offers the principal a chance to concentrate on quality rather than quantity. (Author/DN)

Drops in student enrollment may shift higher education into the business market, but educators must remember their primary task is in coulseling individuals, not counting numbers. (PG)

Briefly traces the history of Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), citing reasons for decreases in its enrollment from 200,000 in 1969-70 to 67,000 in 1974-75 and noting current questions as to whether or not it belongs on the nation's campuses. (JT)

A REVIEW OF DESEGREGATION IN WASHINGTON, D.C., DURING A 5-YEAR PERIOD, 1955-60, WAS PRESENTED. ENROLLMENT TRENDS SHOWED THAT THE IMPOVERISHED AND DESTITUTE PEOPLE OF THE CITY WERE FORCED INTO DEPRIVED DOWNTOWN AREAS. ACADEMIC STANDARDS WERE IMPAIRED BECAUSE OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HANDICAPS, IN ADDITION TO SUCH ADVERSE SCHOOL CONDITIONS AS…

A SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED OF LANGUAGE ENROLLMENTS OF 1,278 INDEPENDENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS WHICH (1) OFFERED INSTRUCTION LEADING TO GRADUATION FROM SECONDARY SCHOOL AND (2) OFFERED A COURSE IN A LANGUAGE IN GRADES 9-12. THE DISCUSSION OF THE REPORT COVERED SUMMARY OF DATA AND ANALYSIS OF STATISTICAL TABLES. THE FINDINGS INDICATED THAT ENROLLMENTS IN…

MODERN LANGUAGE ENROLLMENT DATA WERE PRESENTED DEALING WITH 4-YEAR INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE FALL OF 1960. A COMPARISON WAS MADE OF THE TOTAL ENROLLMENTS OF 1958 AND 1959, WHICH SHOWED AN INCREASE OF 27.8 PERCENT OVER THE PREVIOUS 2 YEARS. INCLUDED WERE DISCUSSIONS OF (1) NATIONAL DATA, (2) BREAKDOWN BY LANGUAGES, (3) STATISTICAL…

The increasing graduate student enrollment and the growing size of departments have posed some crucial questions about the preservation of quality in graduate education at the University of Iowa's Graduate College. In 1966, the graduate faculty adopted a more selective admissions policy, and ruled that final decisions upon graduate admission be…

Until recently, U.S. engineering education and American industry drew candidates from only about 43 percent of the potential market--white males. Many segments of American business, education, and government have been involved in a process to increase minority participation in engineering; the 1974 freshmen engineering enrollment for women…

In order to assess the probable impact of the June, 1976 loss of veteran's benefits for Korean-era veterans, Santa Ana College administered a questionnaire to 4,350 veterans enrolled in the spring of 1975. The questionnaire was returned by 1,299 veterans, a 29.9 percent rate of return. Of those responding, 469 veterans (36.1 percent) were…

In order to overcome the trend toward declining enrollment at Los Angeles City College (LACC), a campaign is planned to recruit students by telephone. In all, 56,530 phone calls will be made by trained students selected from a list of counseling majors, and a list of students who work as peer counselors at college and high schools. The first 7,000…

The annual report of the State Advisory Council for Vocational Education and Manpower Development and Training addresses the major areas, as perceived by the committee, to be most in need of attention in order to improve the quality of vocational education in Kentucky. These areas are: improved communication with the general public, greater use of…

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs has established interdisciplinary research on policy problems as the core of its educational program. A major part of this program is the policy research project, in the course of which three faculty members, each from a different profession or discipline, and about 15 graduate students with diverse…

The Higher Education Panel (HEP) of the American Council on Education conducted the present survey to determine the enrollment figures for junior-year college students in specific fields so that colleges and universities might better plan for future programs in terms of projected enrollments. Over all fields, junior-year enrollment increased 7.6%…