College and university teacher education programs confronted with declining enrollments and budgetary restrictions, should consider the strategies of refocusing, renewing, or reducing to maintain quality programs, including redirection of program foci and faculty activities, faculty retraining, and elimination of marginal programs. (Author/RC)

School closings can be made more acceptable to a community if a long-range plan for dealing with declining enrollments is developed that includes a statement of goals, process, criteria, and efforts to include public information and interaction. (Author/MLF)

The author discusses changes in the role and organizational structures of high school and college seminaries which are being brought about by declining enrollments and rising expenses. (SJL)

Presents a model for sharing resources and services between small schools; the model is currently being utilized in four small school districts in the midwestern United States. (Author/WD)

A rationale is presented for allowing community and neighborhood organizations to use vacant elementary classrooms during the regular school day for such purposes as adult classes, office space, and meetings. Several existing programs are mentioned and potential benefits and problem areas noted. (SJL)

Attainment of fiscal stability in the 1980s at the expense of providing adequate resources for plant maintenance, it is suggested, must be avoided by introducing facility management programs anticipating rather than reacting to change. Plant utilization, maintenance, and modernization are seen as requiring continuing attention. (Author/MLW)

Discussed are the problems presented by declining enrollment; the effects on teachers; the management of curriculum; implications for inservice education; and the need for increased expenditures per student in smaller schools. (KC)

Basing their remarks on the final report of the Curriculum Task Force of the Commission on Declining Enrollments in Ontario (CODE), the authors present projections of enrollment decline on Ontario's curriculum policy and summarize a number of the task force recommendations to the Ontario government. (Author/MLF)

There is a distinct possibility, it is suggested, that American higher education will experience a price war in the coming period. The recent growth in awards of financial aid based on "merit" may be viewed as either its precursor, or its prologue, or its early major phase. (MLW)

In conjunction with declining enrollment and the call for accountability, several developments have occurred which are stress producing among higher education faculty. These include: (1) mandated student evaluations; (2) stringent guidelines for promotion; (3) increased fear of dismissal; (4) inadequate salary increases; and (5) growing apathy…

Discusses the steadily declining enrollment in classical languages programs at college level and explores ways of making curricula more viable. Describes alternatives based on the introduction of a single-subject scheme in classical studies and debates the pros and cons of reading the classics in translation. (MES)

This article discusses the impact that declining school enrollments have had on changes in school politics. (EB)

Five possible scenarios for the future of graduate programs in the humanities are explored based on the economic realities of increasing costs, declining enrollments, employment trends for faculty, competition for scarce resources, and cooperation among various programs. (JMF)

The nature and form of useful management information in a variety of situations is discussed. It is suggested that questions posed by managers may determine the effectiveness of the management information system. Questions concerning demographic trends and enrollment declines are used to illustrate this point. (SF)

Discusses reasons for the existence of multilevel foreign language classes and methods of coping with the problems they present, including independent study, rotating levels, and split-period approaches. (JB)