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Download full textIllinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1986
Fall 1985, "end-of-registration" enrollment data were gathered for the 50 Illinois public community colleges and compared with data from earlier years. Highlights of the analysis indicate that: (1) the colleges enrolled 339,782 students in instructional credit courses in fall 1985, representing a 5.9% decrease from fall 1984; (2) the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Day Students, Declining Enrollment, Enrollment
Bruss, Lyle R.; Bryan, Dennis L. – 1983
Specifically organized for the use of school districts that are located adjacent to each other but across state lines, this manual provides guidelines and procedures for determining the feasibility of sharing services across those state boundaries. The activities specified in the manual utilize school district information that is readily…
Descriptors: Community Support, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Programs, Cost Effectiveness
Costanzo, Matthew W. – 1982
School boards, administrators, and representatives of the community should develop long-range plans that not only consider the present state of schools but attempt to project 10 years hence. Demographic changes in communities indicate that managing decline will require a willingness to pare expenditures and an attempt to win back citizens'…
Descriptors: Accountability, Collective Bargaining, Community Involvement, Consortia
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1982
Intended as a reference volume for elementary and secondary school administrators, this annotated bibliography is divided into 20 chapters on topics of current interest in the educational field. A total of 307 annotations of documents and journal articles that have been indexed in the ERIC system are included. The materials selected for inclusion…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Attendance, Declining Enrollment
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership. – 1978
A transcript is provided of a radio program broadcast February 24, 1978, on the state of foreign language education. The participants in the discussion were leaders in the field, teachers and students from many parts of the United States and from all educational levels. The subjects covered are: some problems facing foreign language programs; the…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Conversational Language Courses, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education
Wilson, Alfred P. – 1982
A review of relevant available literature divides the functions of rural principals into six categories (instruction/curriculum leadership, personnel guidance, school/community relations, administrative responsibilities, evaluation, professional improvement) and provides suggestions on helpful material for each. Recent research on principals and…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Career Guidance, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment
Witty, Elaine P., Ed.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this conference was to identify and examine factors which are increasingly restraining the education, certification, employment, and retention of black teachers. The two-day conference included the presentation of seven papers on the following topics: (1) changes in the faculty and student body populations in black colleges and the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Black Teachers, Change Strategies
Flournoy, Don Michael – 1982
Trends in U.S. higher education, including the expansion toward and then withdrawal from the goal of universal educational opportunity, are examined. Problems are being experienced with regard to colleges and the commitment to flexibility in higher education, along with alternative education systems that operated parallel and complementary to the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, College Planning, College Role
Martorana, S. V., Ed.; And Others – 1978
This publication contains the text of the main presentations and the highlights of discussion groups from the Ninth Annual Pennsylvania Conference on Postsecondary Occupational Education. The conference theme was "Programming Postsecondary Occupational Education." Ewald Nyquist, the first speaker, delineated the problems faced by…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Competition, Conference Reports
Robson, D. L.; And Others – 1979
To project the effects of population change on vocational/technical education, a project surveyed the literature (1977-79) on the futures of general and vocational education and on the effects of declining enrollment and applied these concepts and projections to the field of vocational/technical education. Vocational/technical education seemed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cultural Influences, Declining Enrollment, Economic Factors
Kervin, John B. – 1978
Through an examination of recent trends in collective agreement provisions and a discussion of negotiation strategy, this paper attempts to forecast what the conditions of employment might contribute to education costs in Ontario in the immediate future. Conditions-of-employment clauses are analyzed according to their effect upon staffing needs…
Descriptors: Class Size, Collective Bargaining, Declining Enrollment, Economic Climate
Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, DC. – 1979
This document reproduces the presentations given in a 1979 professional development seminar conducted for state officials responsible for education. The focus of the seminar was how the states can respond to the educational problems of the 1980s. Topics addressed include the overall picture of education in the 1980s, the implications of…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Cultural Pluralism
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1997
Since passage of federal legislation limiting the educational options of welfare recipients, community colleges have been scrambling to ease the impact on current and potential students. Low-income student enrollment is declining; many feel their only choice is work. Colleges are attempting to get programs on approved lists with local social…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment, Economic Change
Boyd, William Lowe – 1982
A longitudinal, comparative case study examines the impact of enrollment decline on and the response to it by 15 suburban school districts in 2 metropolitan areas. Data were collected during 1978-81 through interviews, observation of public meetings, documentary and statistical sources, and case histories developed for each district from 1964-81.…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Budgeting, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Armenoff, Thomas C., Ed.; Horn, Jerry G., Ed. – 1982
The 1982 proceedings of the joint meeting of the Fourth Annual Kansas State University Rural and Small Schools Conference and the Kansas Community Education Association Conference contain texts of 33 papers with separate bibliographies, plus the conference agenda. Topics most discussed are curriculum development/planning, computers and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Community Development, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment
