Criticizes the 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities report for blaming "vocationalism" for declining humanities enrollments in colleges. Unlike other disciplines, humanities leaders seem unwilling to seek clients or to engage in self-examination. What's needed is a renaissance of educational populism, or a repackaging of the…

Downsizing--the planned reduction of faculty, staff, and programs--can help institutions control their own destiny while responding to enrollment decline. Strategies for downsizing include: maintaining academic quality, protecting job security, deciding what to cut, determining student/faculty ratio, and maintaining the physical plant. (MLW)

This article highlights the problems school authorities face in reducing spending and the effects the resulting cuts have upon the school they administer. (JDH)

Reports findings of a survey of Illinois school superintendents which focused on which management practices they recommend in response to enrollment decline. Discusses the 32 most highly recommended practices. (KH)

Enrollment decline in our public schools need not be a negative phenomenon. For the first time in decades, pressures of school expansion, overcrowded facilities, and undertrained teachers have practically disappeared in most school districts. We now can reassess curriculum priorities and refocus on the goals and missions of public education.…

Discusses the need for selectivity in (1) student recruitment, (2) program offering, and (3) use of limited resources. Concludes that administrators of speech communication departments need to determine their program strengths and recruit selectively those students who can become successful graduates. (PD)

The projected population of young adults 18 to 24 years old in 1990 is mapped by state, and a chart shows trends in the size of this cohort for each state since 1965 and projected through 1990. Regional totals are also provided. (MSE)

Food service directors across the country are experiencing problems caused by rising costs and declining enrollments. Except for personnel, Radnor Township Schools, in an affluent Philadelphia suburb, have the same problems. (Author/MLF)

Jerome B. Jones, superintendent in Providence (Rhode Island), explains why a return to K-8 grade organization may solve this city's declining enrollment and other educational problems. (JM)

Discusses five issues affecting education in the United Kingdom--financial constraints, reduction in the number of students, accountability and participation, concern for standards, and changes in social patterns. (Author/IRT)

Foresees a period of adversity for higher education, characterized by declining enrollments and financial resources. Urges colleges to look for ways to improve the quality of and expand their services, especially with regard to an increasingly part-time, adult student population. (AYC)

Although school populations will increase again beginning in the 1980s, presently they are declining. The need for changes in curriculum, pedagogy, and the mode and site for delivery of services are traceable from demographic analysis; the form of the educational response is not. (Author/IRT)

Identifies and discusses some short- and long-term social and economic pressures that appear to be arrayed against nonpublic schools. (Author/IRT)

Enrollment decline is expected to continue until at least 1983-84. With that fact as a reality, administrators should marshal available creative talent and search out solutions. A table shows the percent of enrollment changes Fall 1971 to Fall 1976 in the 50 largest school systems. (Author/MLF)

Enrollments will not see steady growth again for five years. Most of the struggling colleges that have managed continuing success so far are predicted to survive. Some will endure specifically because administrators and trustees have incorporated the procedures and programs that have been successfully implemented in other institutions. (MSE)