Describes the role of college housing administrators in making decisions about the future of not only their own housing operations, but also the future of their institution and the students they attempt to recruit. The effects of rising costs, declining enrollment, changing student characteristics, and aging facilities are discussed. (JAC)

Warns that the transition of older people into higher education will not be easy. Society has fixed conceptualizations of older people as learners. Argues that institutions of higher education are beginning to be more responsive to older people, and gerontological theory might prove useful in guiding action. (Author/JAC)

Discusses Bathurst Heights (Toronto) Secondary School's unique daytime program for undereducated adults. Reports 800 adults in a school population of 1,600; 400 of these adults are in mixed-age classes. Notes availability of day care and full-time municipal social worker services. Finds school has rebounded from a severe enrollment decline. (BRR)

As secondary school enrollment declines in Great Britain in the 1980s, local education authorities will face problems in deciding which schools and/or programs to cut. School districts must recognize that, whether they like it or not, parents will have an increasing impact on decision making. (IS)

Lack of public confidence has created a crisis in American education. To regain public support for the schools, educators can (1) mobilize educational agencies into an action force to support public education; (2) focus school goals on teaching content; (3) improve teacher quality; and (4) increase the supply of science and mathematics teachers.…

Preserving the quality of graduate education in the arts and sciences is seen as the most serious educational challenge facing American universities over the next decade. The quality of graduate education must improve, while the overall numbers of graduate students and Ph.D. programs must be reduced in an orderly way. (MLW)

The author projects trends in teacher education in England and Wales for the 1990s, examining institutional, structural and governance changes in the Colleges of Education and curricular changes needed to match society's redefinition of the teacher's role. This article begins a theme issue with the same title. (SJL)

The Small Schools Project of the National Rural Center has conducted a national survey of our smallest schools. This article summarizes respondents' views on five crucial issues for rural education: changing enrollments, consolidation, educational resources, vocational education, and special education. Part of a theme issue on rural education.…

Russian and Soviet studies specialists see long-term threats to the field's continuing strength with the sudden decline of private and public funding. Some potential problems are identified: narrowed language offerings, declining enrollments, and a history of politicization in Soviet studies. The use of Soviet emigres is advocated. (MLW)

Community college trustees face critical decisions on policy issues. Instead of the growth-oriented marketing approach, the alternative of planned decline under board management is suggested. Alternatives, response to decline, role of faculty in policy determination, and new resource allocations are discussed. (MLW)

In addition to declining enrollments in the '80s, colleges and universities must reckon with decreased public funding, a lack of money for construction, and a possible loss of educational diversity. Public and private institutions must work "to promote better public policies." (Author/MLW)

College missions, it is argued, must be formulated, reviewed, and reformulated on an ongoing basis, in response to the sociocultural, economic, and educational reality in which they exist. At no time should external economic pressures alone determine the reformulation of a mission. (MLW)

A list of questions are posed to introduce a range of issues that may affect higher education enrollment. The need for opening up a dialogue to promote thought and subsequent action on alternative responses to future unknowns--e.g., federal intervention, unionization, labor force redirection--is discussed. (MLW)

Enrollment projections for liberal arts colleges based only on demographic information are described as not useful tools for institutional planning. Attention must be paid to family size and income, financial aid policies, and quality of programs. The nature of higher education enrollments in 1964 and 1977 are discussed. (Author/MLW)

This paper discusses the difficulties that rural and small urban communities are facing in resisting attempts to consolidate their schools into larger districts. (BE)