In 1983, California's Los Rios Community College District developed the Student Flow Research Model, designed to bring together data on community characteristics, student characteristics, student and program performance, and former students' outcomes to answer basic questions related to institutional effectiveness. Over the years, the District has…

This four-part thesis explores the development of enrollment management in higher education and assesses the impact of marketing on recruitment and retention. Part 1 examines the concept of enrollment management, a coordinated approach to marketing, recruitment, and retention efforts which emerged almost a decade ago in response to declining…

Future trends in enrollment projections are useful to school planners who are involved in making decisions about long-term requirements for school facilities and teachers. The 5- to 17-year-old population is expected to increase by 13 percent over the projection period to 2003. During the projection period, total enrollment is expected in 1996 to…

Actual and projected enrollments from 1960-61 through 2002-03 and projected enrollments from 1993-94 through 2002-03 are given for public and non-public schools in New York State. Eight tables present the following enrollment information: (1) trends and projections of public and non-public school enrollment in kindergarten through grade 12 for…

This report presents the recommendations of the California Postsecondary Education Commission based on a study on educational equity in the state. Six individual installments of the educational equity study were published as stand-alone reports between June 1997 and June 1998. The seventh and concluding installment presents a set of seven…

This report is the product of nearly 2 years' work by the California State Postsecondary Education Commission on how the State of California should prepare for enrollment increases in higher education through the year 2005. The six sections of the report cover trends that will influence enrollment demand; the current growth plans of the state's…

This edition, 21st in a series, provides revisions of projections shown in the preceding volume and includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher learning at the national level. Data include projections for enrollment, graduates, instructional staff, and expenditures to the year 2002. Selected projections are…

Enrollment management includes the processes and activities that influence the size, shape, and characteristics of a student body by directing institutional efforts in marketing, recruitment, admissions, pricing, and financial aid. Institutional research plays an essential, if not the key, role in enrollment management. This report discusses the…

This four-section report prepared by the Washington State Office of Financial Management examines the 1983-85 biennium budget forecasts for public common schools, total population and student movement in relation to economic cycles (over the past 2 decades), trends in public and private school enrollment (over the past 2 decades), and school…

This text provides educational administrators with a working knowledge of the problem-solving techniques of PERT (planning, evaluation, and review technique), Linear Programming, Queueing Theory, and Simulation. The text includes an introduction to decision-making and operations research, four chapters consisting of indepth explanations of each…

The issue of whether enough qualified students will seek enrollment at the Univesity of California at San Diego (UCSD) through the end of the century to support the campus's plan for growth, the expansion for staff, and facilities that such growth entails is discussed. Five sections provide an introduction and focus on: demography (trends and…

This paper examines the changing demographics of American society and the impact of these changes on higher education. Discussions include a historical background of early American demography, the building and expansion of the population base, and census changes through various generations of the baby boom years and beyond. Next, the report…

Recognizing the growing population of older learners and seeking to repond to this growing student pool, in January 1989 the League for Innovation in the Community College, in conjunction with the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), conducted a survey of League member institutions in an effort to identify innovations developed for…

This report to the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education requested approval for nine technical colleges to offer associate in arts (AA) and associate in science (AS) degree programs beginning fall 1990. First, background information is provided on the organization and structure…

Serious capital outlay issues that California faces with growth and change are addressed. Initial studies and policies leading up to the 1960 master plan that guided the first period of growth and expansion are covered and the impact of the master plan is examined, along with changes in society and higher education during the 1960s, 1970s, and the…