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Kwiek, Marek – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This paper seeks to conceptualize the processes of de-privatization in higher education. Trends of de-privatization (and contraction in enrolments) are highly interesting because they go against global trends of privatization (and educational expansion). De-privatization means a decreasing role for the private component in the changing…
Descriptors: Privatization, Higher Education, Trend Analysis, Declining Enrollment
Oubre, Linda Seiffert – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With changing funding models and increased competition, academic institutions are increasingly looking for new ways to finance their missions. Business schools are turning to revenue diversification through new venturing to offset declining MBA enrollment, high business faculty salaries, and changes in accreditation standards that require more…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Educational Finance, Institutional Mission, Masters Programs
Illinois Community College Board, 2015
Community colleges report opening Spring term enrollment figures to the Illinois Community College Board using a brief web based survey. Overall, compared to the same term one year ago, statewide Spring 2015 headcount enrollments and full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollments both decreased. The Spring 2015 semester headcount was 330,223 compared to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Two Year College Students, Full Time Students
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Shaw, Ryan D. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2018
With the intent of improving understanding of cuts to elementary arts programs, the purpose of this research was to investigate how one urban school district (Lansing School District in Lansing, Michigan) eliminated its elementary arts specialists. Research questions were (1) What policy conditions enabled the Lansing School District's decision to…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Decision Making, Case Studies
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Finger, Anke; Tracksdorf, Niko – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2019
Changing public demands and decreasing enrollment numbers have challenged the traditional concept of teaching languages, cultures, and literatures in the U.S. Although nationwide enrollment numbers in German programs have been declining, "global" German Studies programs such as the ones at the University of Connecticut and the University…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Warren, Paul; Gao, Niu; Hill, Laura; LaFortune, Julien – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
California educates more than 6 million children in its K-12 public schools. More than half of these students are economically disadvantaged. About one in five are English Learners (ELs), compared with one in ten nationwide. In 2013, the state created the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) to simplify school funding and significantly increase…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Students
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Daniel, James Rushing – Composition Studies, 2016
Scholarship in composition and rhetoric has certainly addressed issues of African American economic inequality (Gilyard) and institutional austerity (Welch and Scott), yet the field has failed to address how both are united in the site of the contemporary HBCU. In particular, composition scholars have not explored how the shifts of the new economy…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, African American Students, African American Community, Financial Exigency
Partelow, Lisette; Baumgardner, Christina – Center for American Progress, 2016
This report investigates potential reasons for the sharp decline in enrollments in teacher preparation programs in recent years and finds evidence that educator job losses resulting from the Great Recession were associated with diminished interest in teaching. Decreases in average teacher salary and the trend of what are termed "last in,…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Declining Enrollment, Teacher Education Programs, Economic Climate
Schmitt, Lisa – Online Submission, 2015
This report describes changes in enrollment counts from Fall 2014 to Fall 2015 and examines the patterns in the percentages of students who were new to AISD and who left AISD after each grade. A separate research brief also was published. [For "Enrollment from Fall 2014 to Fall 2015: Trends for 6th Grade. Publication 15.07b RB," see…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, School Districts, Declining Enrollment, School Statistics
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Manning, Patrick R. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2018
Catholic schools in the United States continue to struggle with declining enrollment just as the wider American Church continues to struggle with rampant disaffiliation. While some Catholic educators have generated creative solutions to keep their schools afloat, the long-term viability of U.S. Catholic education will require understanding the…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholics, Catholic Educators, World Views
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Cervantes-Duarte, Luisa; Fernández-Cano, Antonio – Online Submission, 2016
This paper investigates the short and long-term pernicious impact of armed conflicts on education and educational agents (students, teachers and students' parents), using a multivocal review by means of the integration and qualitative analysis of 60 research reports (voices) found in two databases: Web of Science and PROQUEST in the period between…
Descriptors: War, Conflict, Educational Practices, Barriers
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Rowley, William J. – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
This paper suggests changes that are likely to occur in higher education resulting from the coronavirus pandemic from a retired dean's perspective. Global events like the Great Depression and World War II led to significant societal and cultural changes. This global pandemic will have the same impact. Higher education will not be the same in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2017
The decline in the numbers of students learning foreign languages in secondary schools in England, together with the low and decreasing number of top grades in these subjects, has raised concerns among educationalists, employers and politicians in the last few years. The aim of this research was, therefore, to investigate the uptake of and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Fraser, Alison L.; Donovan, William – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2017
Historically Catholic college preparatory and career vocational-technical schools have had contrasting approaches to secondary school education. Catholic schools have provided classical liberal-arts education, including religious instruction, with emphasis on the spiritual and intellectual potential of every student and an eye towards higher…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Educational History, Career Education, Technical Education
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Lochmiller, Chad R. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2018
This case positions the reader as the superintendent of Jefferson City Public Schools (pseudonym). Like many urban school districts in the United States, Jefferson City faces a complex milieu of fiscal challenges attributed to inadequate state funding and declining student enrollment. Within this case, the superintendent must address the failing…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Superintendents, Public Schools, Declining Enrollment
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