Analysis of curriculum, enrollment, and faculty data from four private liberal arts colleges and two private research universities investigates the most cost-effective curriculum design, using simulation models. It is concluded that simpler college curricula, with fewer courses, less specialization, and more consolidation will yield smaller, less…

An alternative analysis of minority enrollments in U.S. colleges and universities suggests that little progress has been made in minority access to higher education. The current informal backlash against affirmative action and de facto college segregation inhibit racial fairness. Segregation and restricted access should be redefined as being due…

Data on foreign student enrollment are discussed and these aspects outlined: general trends, financial support, institutions with largest foreign student enrollments, states with largest enrollments, distribution by field of study, and distribution by academic level. (MSE)

Financial pressures and the possibility of a major desegregation suit have dominated the 1980-81 academic year for Tennessee's public colleges and universities. The higher education community is moving toward managing the decline with limitations on enrollment and by eliminating unnecessary duplicated academic programs. (MLW)

A recent court ruling that the proportion of intercollegiate athletes who are women must equal the proportion of undergraduates who are women is criticized on the grounds that it may compel colleges and universities to distort resource allocations for college athletics and thereby overvalue them. It is argued that such a change would serve no one…

A discussion of college faculty productivity defines the term and looks at related issues, including ways of improving productivity; costs of academic work; "deadwood"; and productive behavior as it relates to research, grantsmanship, instructional quality, enrollment and class size, and teaching load. Incentives and persuasive arguments are seen…

A study ranking private, undergraduate, four-year colleges according to the number of students subsequently receiving doctorates is outlined, and the revised ranking of the top 100 institutions, adjusted to reflect the proportion of the graduating class receiving doctorates, is presented. Selected time periods in the 1916-1976 span were used for…

Data presented are compiled from a Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching survey on enrollment patterns in college majors and faculty distribution among subject fields. Questions raised by the results are noted. (MSE)