Lists the items that should be included in a school building inventory and discusses techniques for marketing once the decision to close a building has been made. (MLF)

Discusses Judith Hackman's article (published in "Administrative Science Quarterly," in March 1985) theorizing about how colleges and universities allocate resources among units--an important issue in an ongoing era of budget cuts and resource reallocations. Affirms the importance of departmental centrality in resource allocation and…

Clarifies the meaning of organizational decline by delimiting it from related constructs (turbulence, stagnation, and environmental decline). Investigates certain organizational attributes associated with turbulence and decline in 334 higher education institutions over a six-year period. Results suggest that organizational attributes associated…

This paper decribes the case survey method as a technique to overcome data collection problems and lack of integration of case studies. It outlines the roots of the method, distinguishes it from meta-analysis, describes the process with illustrations from an enrollment decline study, and analyzes its strengths and limitations. (BW)

Discusses reasons for and solutions to declining enrollment in college history courses. Suggests that instructors be aware of the mental diversity of students and involve them in what is going on in the profession. Methods include trips, speakers, a newsletter, festivals, and research. Specific topics for medieval history are presented. (KC)

Facing declining enrollment, higher education must try to find a new clientele while resisting the temptation to cater to the distorted set of national priorities currently being sold the American public by well-organized and economically powerful but short-sighted special interest groups. (Author/PGD)

Gives advice on how to break up an existing elementary school library closed because of declining enrollments. Items covered are: preparing for the closing, procedures to follow, problems encountered, reprocessing materials, and lessons learned. (LLS)

Examines the effects of declining financial support and enrollments, pressures for accountability and community participation, and other social demands on the schools in England and Wales. (Author/IRT)

A number of colleges and universities have been highly successful in developing adult programs that benefit both the student and the institution. However, differences exist between adult programs and programs for traditional undergraduates. (Author/MLF)

A Pennsylvania school district is currently exploring the possibility of converting and selling or leasing an ultramodern school because of declining enrollment and the cost of energy. (Author/MLF)

Decremental planning is synonymous with the management of decline. (Author/IRT)

Examines historical, political, economic, and social reasons for a trend to reinvent the traditional Ph.D. (rather than develop professional doctorates), by focusing on the case of the Doctor of Education (EdD) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Explores reasons for its enrollment decline as opposed to…

Certain higher-education institutions are at risk in 2007 and beyond, according to Moody's Investors Service, which gauges colleges' financial health. They include small private colleges with limited geographic draw, colleges with ambitious spending plans to improve their national reputations, and regional public universities that face heavy…

The problem. To consider reorganization of two or more Iowa school districts in light of declining enrollment, dwindling financial resources, the end of the state budget guarantee program and pressure to provide the most rigorous and relevant education possible to Iowa's students. Specifically, the problem is to determine what two or more school…

Declining enrollment presents educational planners with a new challenge. The prospects of consolidation and reductions require the use of the most effective technical planning procedures available to facilitate effective decisionmaking. (Author)