Compares curriculum enrollments of 9,907 North Carolina community college Black and White students. Presents results revealing status hierarchies in the broader college transfer, technical, and vocational programs. Indicates that Black female students may have a greater status disadvantage in program enrollments than Black males. (DMM)

Examines central issues in the future of occupational education: uncertain enrollment patterns; changing instructional strategies and delivery systems; influences of national and international policies and technological advances on future employment markets; an uneasy economic climate; and collaboration with liberal arts faculty, government…

Details cooperative agreements to finance new schools drawn up by growing school districts in Colorado and the corporations whose activities are responsible for that growth. The developers of an oil shale project and a tract housing project lent school districts money under very favorable terms. (JM)

Educational policy has been directed toward assuring students access to some form of postsecondary education regardless of their financial or socioeconomic circumstances. Trends in enrollments of low-income freshman students are examined. Evidence indicates that college access by low-income students may have reached a plateau. (MLW)

Describes role of state coordinating agencies for higher education in Black education. Details the history and development of various states of Black coalitions which attempt to influence state planning policy emphasizing their involvement in issues regarding state financial support, Black enrollment and graduation, and mergers between…

Data show that the the "brain drain" of talented Black students from historically Black institutions to White ones, earlier traced from the 1930s to 1970, continued from 1970 to 1978. Black students with affluent, well-educated parents, and whose fathers have high-status occupations, also shifted from Black to White colleges. (MSE)

The decline in the number of federally related jobs is threatening public policy schools and policy analysis is experiencing a loss of esteem. If this trend continues, the quality of students interested in public policy schools may be diluted. (MLW)

The presence of Black faculty to serve as role models was seen to have direct bearing on Black student enrollments in both integrated and Black schools of nursing. Black educators are more committed than White educators to Black student enrollment and carry on the major recruitment and retention efforts. (CT)

Examines whether or not university-based research can produce and support personnel needed to maintain technological leadership. Suggests that industry become more involved by increasing the number of research positions available for graduates and describes one program involving university-industry cooperation. (Author/SK)

Higher education is seen as having had a good decade in the '70s, but changes that have occurred include: the rise of the public sector, regulation, more public money, larger institutions, decline in public confidence, enrollment rate shifts, aging faculty, "defensive" posture, new students, and new market orientation. (Author/MLW)

National developments and ways national dental manpower analyzes and forecasts may affect a dental school's determination of its entering class size are discussed. Health manpower development, dentistry changes, projections of supply and demand, forecasting, weaknesses in forecasts and predictions, and dental school use of national analyses are…

This paper looks at inter- and intracountry differences in Third World women's educational opportunities and attainments. Discussion includes differences in literacy rate by age; sex differences in enrollment rate, promotion, and wastage; early marriage and other social customs impacting on women's schooling; and social class differences in…

Suggests that financial constraints and demographic trends will force a significant change in college planning within the next three years. Argues that continuing education managers, with their background in assessment, development, and evaluation, can assume a leadership role in planning and effecting the critical changes facing universities in…

This article discusses some of the social/political issues that are raised in relation to declining school enrollment and school consolidation. Alternatives to the closing of schools in the face of declining enrollment are discussed. (Author/EB)

The author briefly discusses ten of the important events in education during the last decade. (IRT)