The future of higher education has three dimensions: (1) changes in demographic patterns, migration, and changing high school curricula; (2) increases in industry-sponsored education, "colleges without campuses," and military instruction programs; and (3) possible responses, including more specific missions, improved counseling, and more…

Community colleges in the California Coast Community College district have capitalized on a burgeoning adult education clientele and the public television boom to acquire one of the fasting growing and most venturesome education systems in the world. (Author/LBH)

Includes comments from Australian Science Teachers Association representatives in five states pertaining to: (1) enrollment trends in science, and (2) trends in secondary science education. (CP)

Dynamic changes have occurred in the nation's public elementary and secondary schools in the five-year period from 1971-72 to 1976-77. Discusses enrollment, teacher supply and pupil-teacher ratio, as well as school consolidation and total expenditures for public schools. (Author/RK)

Reports that the physics and mathematics programs at Yeshiva University Belfer Graduate School of Science will be discontinued by June 1978. (SL)

Declining enrollment, financial trouble, and larger college graduating classes from schools of education all contribute to the spiraling problem of teacher layoff and unemployment. (JD)

Discusses conditions leading to a teacher shortage; factors affecting teacher demand; social trends affecting entry into the profession; the acute shortage of science and mathematics instructors; and the issue of teacher quality. Suggestions are offered for making teaching a more attractive career option. (RH)

If vocational educators are to continue to contribute to the education of America's students, they must be aware of and respond to the social, political, and economic forces that will change vocational education into something quite different from what it has been. (JOW)

Admissions officers credit recruitment efforts and greater commitment of financial aid for the anticipated modest increases in Black college student enrollments. However, some feel it is too early to project accurate numbers. (MSE)

In a period of rapid enrollment growth, cities in which University of California campuses reside are waging a noisy campaign to demand an end to campus expansion, either by adding a campus or keeping enrollments down. The university remains committed to offering a place to all qualifying students. (MSE)

Presented are statistics and analyses for 1970-1985 related to school enrollments and mathematics enrollments in Australia. Implications for the 1990s are considered. (RH)

A California school district, expecting 600 new students and only filling less than half of their 70 open teaching positions from usual hiring sources, took their teacher recruitment program on the road and around the country. Top flight teachers were hired at precisely the grade levels and subject areas needed. (MLF)

Examination of the downward trend of college and university enrollments and its possible effects on academic libraries notes that fewer undergraduates, fewer full-time students, and more graduate, part-time, and older students will affect clientele, services, and support. Other trends considered include fewer new academic librarians and the…

The revolution taking place on college campuses arises from the increasing enrollment of nontraditional students: minority, women, and older, returning students. It will be impossible to ignore them or assimilate them into the traditional white, middle-class orientation of colleges and universities. Issues in student programming are discussed.…