China has entered into a new stage of demographic dynamics whereby population-related challenges are more complicated than ever before. The current one-child policy should be modified. However, the anticipated impacts of such a policy change should not be over-exaggerated. China's demographic challenge requires an integrated coping strategy.…

In his 1918 orienting work, The Higher Learning in America, Veblen highlights two primary aims of the higher education institution: (a) scientific and scholarly inquiry, and (b) the instruction of students (Veblen, 1918). As of 2006, this overarching mission remained intact. In contemporary literature, a common measure of the efficacy of the…

Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation (TG) provides critical support to schools, students, and borrowers at every stage of the federal student aid process--from providing information on how to pay for a higher education including financial aid options, to facilitating successful loan repayment after graduation. This 2016 issue of "State…

A discussion of the Demographic Transition is included in many Environmental Biology or Environmental Science classes. The Demographic Transition occurs as a nation becomes more urban and wealthy, and was widely observed in the twentieth century. The phenomenon includes decreasing family size (fewer children) across generations. In this classroom…

This article presents the New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE) Trends & Indicators in Higher Education, featuring 64 tables and charts exploring New England's demography, high school performance and graduation, college enrollment, college graduation rates and degree production, higher education financing, and university research.…

Describes major demographic shifts in the potential clientele for U.S. higher education and some of the novel actions that institutions have begun to take in response to the changes. (EV)

Explores relationship between demography and other variables affecting student recruitment in higher education. Presents broad overview of major demographic trends that will occur through the end of decade and beyond and examines how these trends may be ameliorated by both internal/institutional and external/environmental variables that are not…

Reviews statistics on the growing diversity of the United States and discusses its implications for institutions of higher education in the New England region. (EV)

Uses data from the 2000 census to outline the demographic shifts that will bring more students of color and older students to college campuses in the years ahead. (EV)

Two basic developments during the late 1960s and early 1970s will have long-term consequences for higher education in the United States. The first is the striking change in population trends; the declining birth rate reached a low of 15.6 live births per 1,000 population in 1972. The second factor examined is the apparent shift in attitude toward…

A management model uses a population perspective that examines types of change occurring in the environment of populations of organizations and results in four kinds of decline (erosion, contraction, dissolution, and collapse). It is used to explain several population-related organizational phenomena. (MSE)

DURING THE 20TH CENTURY, DELAWARE'S POPULATION GROWTH HAS PARALLELED THAT OF THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE, ALTHOUGH THE GROWTH HAS NOT BEEN EVENLY DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE STATE. NEED FOR EXPANSION OF THE STATE'S HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES WAS INDICATED BY TWO FACTORS--(1) THE TREND IN THE BIRTH RATE, WHICH LED TO A PROJECTION OF A 1975 COLLEGE…

Aside from the growth of world population itself, urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of the late twentieth century. The number of people living in cities increased from six hundred million in 1950 to over two billion in 1986. If this growth continues unabated, more than half of humanity will reside in urban areas shortly after the turn…

This report is a demographic study of the United States education system from kindergarten through post-graduate education. Part 1 provides a briefing on the major demographic trends that form the framework of the analysis in terms of: (1) number of births in different groups; (2) rate of age increase in various groups due to varying birth rates;…

A population ecology model of institutional fitness broadens the scope of perspectives on organizational success. The approach allows systematic thinking about internal and external factors identifies the critical dependency relationships between a college and other organizations that supply resources. (MLW)