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Whitfield, Richard C. – 1980
A three-phase interdisciplinary effort between educators and environmental planners is focusing on the social effects of rural primary school reorganization now occuring in England as a result of a declining birth rate and the resulting need for school closure. A questionnaire mailed nationally to rural Local Education Authorities, cross-community…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Case Studies, Community Change, Consolidated Schools
Weisensee, Mary G. – 1979
The ambiguities and controversy associated with long-range planning in higher education are discussed from the perspective of academic deans of schools of nursing. It is suggested that declining enrollments, increasing costs, and intense competition for survival among higher education institutions demand the formulation of explicit goals and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Allied Health Occupations Education, Cost Effectiveness, Deans
Atherton, Peter J. – 1979
The major problem to be faced in Canada in the next decade is resource allocation. Administrators must make conscious efforts to distinguish between changes in price levels that are the effect of inflationary pressures and increases in costs that are the result of changes in quality or quantity of inputs. A second area extremely important in…
Descriptors: Costs, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
Shymoniak, Leonard; McIntyre, Chuck – 1980
Administrative and empirical factors affecting the relationship between changing workloads and concomitant budget adjustments are examined in this analysis of the funding structure by which state aid to each California community college is adjusted for increases or decreases in average daily attendance (ADA). The report first describes current…
Descriptors: Average Daily Attendance, Budgeting, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment
Williams, Thomas; Powell, Mava Jo – 1980
Examining the challenges and responsibilities facing Canadian provincial and local boards of education, this paper focuses on economic, demographic, ideological, jurisdictional, and administrative problems. Both provincial and local school boards currently face increasing financial pressure as inflation soars and taxpayers demand fiscal restraint.…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Bilingualism, Boards of Education, Cultural Pluralism
Leithwood, K.; Montgomery, D. – 1978
Responses to a series of five group interviews and questionnaire surveys provide the basis for this study of the effects of declining enrollment on Ontario's curriculum. The supervisory personnel in the sample identified six factors in curriculum planning that would be influenced by declining enrollment: teachers, line administrators, curriculum…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment, Educational Objectives
Madras, S.; And Others – 1978
Utilizing a computerized model, this paper presents a five-year financial plan for the board of education in North York (Ontario). The model assumes that the present organizational structure and policies of the board will continue and that a zero inflation rate will prevail for the next five years. It assesses financial implications for the future…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education
Shaw, Ira W. – 1980
As a result of declining enrollment and unionization of teachers, administrators are losing their roles as educational leaders. They must be innovative in order to reassert their prerogatives over decisions on such issues as class size, transfer limitations, and the selection of new employees and to promote a better educational climate in the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Collective Bargaining, Declining Enrollment
Carey, Maggie D.; Snyder, Fred A. – 1979
In the fall of 1977, students enrolled in an elementary school administration and supervision class at Indiana State University attempted to separate the "threats" from the "thorns" in elementary school administration. "Thorns" were defined as everlasting or recurrent problems, and "threats" were defined as relatively new problems perceived as…
Descriptors: Accountability, Attendance, Court Litigation, Curriculum Problems

Goetz, Frank; And Others – 1974
The Facilities Committee of the Birmingham School District developed procedures for a thorough assessment of the buildings in the district. By March 1974, all buildings had been visited by an assessment team. A subsequent report submitted by the building principals contained the consensus judgment of the assessment team for each item assessed. At…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Declining Enrollment, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Bureau of Field Studies and Surveys. – 1976
Published in conjuction with a planning assistance manual (EA008692), this case study examines the impact of declining enrollment on one suburban Minnesota school district. To cope with enrollment decline, the district sought to maintain a balanced budget and to preserve as nearly as possible its existing educational programs. It also sought…
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgets, Case Studies, Decision Making
Winsborough, H.H., Sweet, J.A. – 1976
Two social changes are cited as particularly important to the projection of college enrollment trends. One is the rising educational attainment of the parents of future potential college attenders; the other is the fact that declines in fertility accompany declines in average family size. Overall, the illustration in this paper suggests that the…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Cohort Analysis, College Students, Declining Enrollment
Bruno, Rosalind – 1976
This report presents an analysis of data for October 1975 compiled from the Current Population Survey on recent changes in school and college enrollment. Presented in statistical tables are data on the characteristics of students enrolled in nursery schools through college, including data on students' age, race, sex, marital status, living…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Demography, Early Childhood Education, Educational Trends

Julian, Frank H. – College and University, 1987
The idea of regional cooperation on university tuition issues and the related economic and political factors are discussed in the context of Murray State University's experience with declining enrollment due to its comparatively high tuition and proximity to other states. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Declining Enrollment, Enrollment Influences, Higher Education
Iosue, Robert V. – AGB Reports, 1985
The results of a college president's informal survey of European academics' attitudes about liberal arts vs. vocational education, declining enrollments, evaluation of quality education, articulation between secondary and higher education, and computers in education are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Role, College School Cooperation, Comparative Education