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Kerr, Clark – AGB Reports, 1980
Likely enrollment trends in the near future may forecast difficulties for institutions, and for current and prospective faculty, but students will seldom, if ever, have it so good on campus. Institutions will be primed to serve student needs better than ever before. (MSE)
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Educational Change, Enrollment Trends, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedKerr, Clark – Change, 1980
Formal state coordination of higher education is seen as a product of the enrollment growth of the 1960s. Declining enrollment will place great strains on coordination. The future of higher education depends upon the policies of the states, in terms of financing of new initiatives and overall guidance and governance. (MLW)
Descriptors: Coordination, Declining Enrollment, Federal State Relationship, Finance Reform
Kerr, Clark – AGB Reports, 1979
For the twenty-first century, higher education's future is promising, but in the meantime, there are problems--demographics, inflation, middle-class backlash--and two less discussed perils: loss of diversity and weakened commitment to science. However, individual institutions have individual futures and many are bright. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Role, College Science, College Students
Peer reviewedKerr, Clark; Gade, Marian – European Journal of Education, 1986
The variety of conventional and creative responses of U.S. higher education institutions to declining enrollments and related educational change is outlined, and the shift in the role of state governments in higher education is discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Declining Enrollment, Educational Change, Educational Demand
Peer reviewedKerr, Clark – Community and Junior College Journal, 1980
Describes the community college as a dynamic, mobile, and evolving institution. Cites ten societal needs and higher education's role in fulfilling them. Enumerates the instructional, quasi-instructional, and facilitating functions of the community college and advocates providing expanded services to high school dropouts and graduates who do not…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment, Dropouts
Kerr, Clark – CASE Currents, 1980
In addition to declining enrollments in the '80s, colleges and universities must reckon with decreased public funding, a lack of money for construction, and a possible loss of educational diversity. Public and private institutions must work "to promote better public policies." (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Federal Aid, Futures (of Society), Government School Relationship
Kerr, Clark – 1984
Perspectives on higher education and its leadership are offered by the president emeritus of the University of California. Six impressions concerning higher education are considered, based on about 800 interviews conducted by a presidential leadership commission sponsored by the Association of Governing Boards. In addition to the perception that…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Role, Declining Enrollment, Economic Factors
