When Southern Nazarene University enrollment decreased by 9 percent between 1984 and 1985, a select committee was charged with studying every part of institutional life to make recommendations that would result in budget reduction. Eight professors received notice of dismissal. (MLW)

The course of enrollments, events, and decision-making leading up to the 1980 dismissal of five faculty at Goucher College is outlined in terms of: financial exigency, termination of tenured appointments, ruptures in due process and faculty participation, and absence of a decision for program discontinuance. (MSE)