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Acquah, Edward H. K. – Association for Institutional Research, 2012
The academic program life cycle (APLC) concept states each program's life flows through several stages: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. A mixed-influence diffusion growth model is fitted to annual enrollment data on academic programs to analyze the factors determining progress of academic programs through their life cycles. The…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Development, Models, Outcome Measures
Thorpe, Stephen W. – 1990
This paper describes an enrollment forecasting model that was developed in 1988 by the Office of Institutional Research for a small, private, liberal arts college (Wesley College, Delaware). The college, shifting in demographics from its historical junior college mission to that of a comprehensive baccalaureate institution, required a forecasting…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Budgeting, College Planning, College Programs