To be fully responsive to principals' needs in the current period of decline and retrenchment, inservice education should provide school leaders the opportunity to confront and alter obsolete assumptions about effective leadership. (Author)

Problems posed by abrupt transition to a steady state following rapid expansion in Australian universities are reviewed. Focus is on demography of departments, new developments in academic disciplines, tenure, and early retirement. (LBH)

Enrollment declines that have led to the closing of hundreds of elementary schools over the last eight years have now hit the country's high schools. Discusses findings released by the National Center for Education Statistics. (Author/RK)

The study assessed intra-school factors that seemed to be related to the sharp enrollment decline in French-language classes in southwestern Manitoba. Questionnaires were distributed to all French-language teachers and principals in 78 elementary and secondary schools in 14 school divisions and school districts. It was found that a high proportion…

If the urban, independent university is to survive, it must recognize the impending enrollment decline and emphasize academic excellence and programs that are rooted in the urban community. (IRT)

Two aging structures were replaced by Central High School in an Indiana steel town. Planning, board and administrator support, and community involvement eased negative attitudes toward the high school closures and resulted in a $36 million school that has unified the city and will serve it for over 50 years. (MLF)

If universities are to deal with the problems of declining enrollment and funding, they must combine both political and economic considerations, placing more responsibility on the administrators who now have to decide not only what to do but how to do it. (MLW)

Enrollments, it is suggested, have not dropped, in part because the decline in the total pool from which colleges enroll their students has been compensated for by increased enrollments of older students. (MLW)

Examines the role of the counselor in higher education in light of decreases in student enrollment. Discusses some of the changing roles and responsibilities of counselors and explores the counselors' transferable skills to administrative roles. (LLL)

In 1977, Jefferson Community College of the University of Kentucky faced an 11 percent drop in enrollment. Strategies that were successful in reversing declining enrollment and in developing faculty and staff involvement in a creative problem-solving process are described. (Author/MLW)

The expected rise in enrollment may be just a 10-year window of growth, followed by another period of decline. Changes will occur in the manner that technical and vocational courses are taught. The emphasis on light industry and electronics will require new instructional areas including "clean rooms." (MLF)

How three business education teachers coped with declining enrollments by introducing the new shorthand system, Century 21, to their students. (HD)

This report addresses program enrollment in the Florida Community College System (FCCS), focusing on possible reasons for and solutions to the decline in community college enrollment. The FCCS produced a set of enrollment headcount projections in mid-1997 that indicated that the system would be serving 330,000 credit students by fall 1999.…

Surveyed graduate schools to determine the status of graduate admissions practices comtemplated or in effect and to identify how enrollment problems are handled. Results showed a decline in graduate enrollment over the past five years, caused by the national economy, decreases in available students, and loss of grant money. (JAC)

Three experiences are presented: how a school library developed as an Independent Learning Activity Center, how Chicago principals find time for instructional supervision, and how parents, administrators, and a school board found a way to close schools in a positive atmosphere. (MD)