Eugene (OR) School District 4J is experiencing declining enrollments on a district-wide basis, but these declines have not been evenly distributed throughout the district. Schools in the Central city and older neighborhoods are experiencing declines, while schools in newer neighborhoods at the periphery are generally more crowded. At some future…

This report provides 1981-82 statistical information on Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the United States and discusses the significance and implications of some data. The data include national population, birth rate, and age trends; enrollment trends in public and private schools; enrollment trends in Catholic schools by type of…

Methodology and findings are reported for a study conducted to determine the need for change in the faculty tenure system at Norwich University (NU). The report first presents background information concerning NU and reviews the literature on tenure. Study procedures are then outlined: an analysis of NU tenure regulations as revealed in committee…

A summary of the National Institute of Education's anthology by the same title, this publication reviews 13 articles that discuss current shifts in school enrollment and their impact on the educational system. Topics covered include the demographic background to declining enrollments; the fiscal effects of decline; the management of decline;…

Recent restrictions in funds made available to higher education, reinforced by declining birth rates and slowing or falling enrollments, are forcing an adjustment of thinking by educators. The growth of the last 20 years was not the normal state of higher education. Educators have come to think that bigger is better as enrollments and faculty have…

Research documents, conference presentations, and journal articles are used in a five-part review of recruitment strategies currently being employed at junior colleges. The first section provides background information on the development of the community college movement. The second section focuses on changing student objectives and their…

The economic position of college faculty members is examined. It is suggested that a declining relative and absolute economic status for faculty has been in evidence for several years and shows no signs of abating. Faculty members are being forced to find ways to supplement their salaries through outside activities and second jobs. It is also…

At the moment, most of Canada is faced with the problem of dealing with declining enrollments. This decline necessitates consideration of two major issues: the role of the educational system in Canadian society and the structure of educational governance in Canada. Although by law education is the prerogative of the provinces, the federal…

Inner city Catholic elementary schools have been closing at an alarming rate. White student enrollment has declined because there are fewer students since the end of the baby boom and as a result of the changing racial and ethnic compositions in the inner city. Minority enrollment has also declined because the schools could not, or did not, adapt…

The superintendent of a suburban Seattle school district discusses four of the positive implications of declining school enrollments. First, the school enrollment trend is known. Second, there are going to be empty classrooms, which means that special programs that were slighted when facilities were crowded can now be adequately housed. Third, the…

This third and final report of the Facilities Committee of the Birmingham School District summarizes the committee's observation that only the closing of schools will permit significant budget reductions. Appendixes contain data supporting that position. (MLF)

This volume contains the recommendations made to the Minnesota legislature by the Advisory Council on Fluctuating School Enrollments. Volume II serves as an appendix to this first volume and contains the data and information on which these recommendations were based. Volume I's recommendations center around the effects of fluctuating enrollments…

This document is designed to offer guidance to those school district officials in New York State who are faced with making decisions about how their districts will cope with declining enrollment. Enrollment in New York schools is no longer growing at a predictable rate as it did for so many years. School districts need to establish a different…

Discusses problems posed to education by declining enrollments. Major problems are unused school facilities, unemployed teachers, and decline in finances allocated to education. Suggest that declining enrollments should be considered instead as an impetus toward better teacher/student ratios and individualized programs. (DB)

The author writes briefly of his experience as president of The Defiance College, a small college in danger of closing. He makes a plea for humane teaching and proposes that colleges losing students seek to enroll those past the age of 55 in residence courses designed to prepare them for their new stage in life. (JMD)