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Fair, Jason Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2017
NCAA Division I intercollegiate wrestling has lost more athletic teams to elimination since the early 1980's than any other intercollegiate sport (Irick, 2016). Research exploring reasons behind intercollegiate wrestling program elimination is scant and much of what does exist is part of a broader discussion regarding Title IX regulation. This…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Athletics, Program Termination
Fleming, Kevin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The California Community College mission requires offering relevant Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. Due to program accretion and bureaucratic inertia, program discontinuance (PD) seems at odds with postsecondary culture. Yet, as a result of recent budget constrictions, community colleges are forced to identify effective PD…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Program Termination, Retrenchment
Donoff, Susan Beth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Departmental and programmatic eliminations represent a new paradigm in the history of American higher education. Hastened by a national economic recession and competing state funding priorities, public post-secondary institutions have turned to academic attrition as a solution to continuous budgetary shortfalls. As a means of addressing the lived…
Descriptors: Program Termination, College Programs, Public Colleges, College Faculty
MetLife, Inc., 2012
"The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Teachers, Parents and the Economy" (2011) examines the teaching profession and parent-school engagement at a time when there has been a prolonged economic downturn. The survey explores how teachers, parents and schools are working together to promote student learning and healthy development in the…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Morikis, Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to identify the common consequences experienced by school corporations when closing or consolidating schools. The primary focus of the study was to identify the financial and political consequences experienced by school corporations when closing a school closing or consolidating schools. Specific questions regarding…
Descriptors: School Closing, Expenditures, Declining Enrollment, Superintendents
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Savaya, Riki; Spiro, Shimon; Elran-Barak, Roni – American Journal of Evaluation, 2008
The article reports on the findings of a comparative case study of six projects that operated in Israel between 1980 and 2000. The study findings identify characteristics of the programs, the host organizations, and the social and political environment, which differentiated programs that are sustained from those that are not. The findings reaffirm…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Leadership