This review deals with the interest of some junior college educators in taking a stand against the belief that community college enrollments will continue to increase indefinitely. The first stand was made by the Arizona State Board of Directors for Junior Colleges, which called for at least 5-year moratorium on new junior colleges after 1969 in…

Describes the growing awareness of the need for legal assistants which lead to the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges' paralegal education project, whose primary purpose was to develop, implement, and evaluate associate degree, certificate, and continuing education paralegal programs at six community colleges. (TP)

Press cuttings, official publications, and press releases are reviewed in this annual survey of British higher education. This article is complemented by an analytical study by Charles Carter in the same journal. (Editor/LBH)

To determine how a college's curriculum and selectivity may influence enrollment fluctuations, this study analyzed data on 64 private colleges in Iowa and Illinois. Colleges emphasizing arts and sciences had greater enrollment growth during improving market conditions for college graduates; those stressing occupational growth had greater…

This paper investigates the impact of parental education level, family income, scholastic ability, and expectations of earnings and employment on the demand for higher education in the Netherlands. A distance test found that parental educational level exerted indirect effects only. (Author/JOW)

Quantitative trends and patterns of public policy in industralized countries are reviewed. In times when the ideal of universal higher education is waning, there is a need to move beyond numbers and toward an explicit concern with the democratization of knowledge. (Author/MLW)

Describes efforts by Central Washington State College to take courses and programs to the community thus negating the student on-campus residence requirement. Illustrates the effect of this effort by listing the enrollment figures for some science courses taught off campus. (GS)

This regional study of undergraduate enrollment demand and physical capacity for the University of California complements a similar regional study for the California Community Colleges and the California State University that was adopted in 2001. The study explored the 2003-2004 5-year capital outlay plans of the University and the anticipated…

Recent data from two state universities confirm the basic incompatability of student and outside'' forces for change within the university, and the substantial but probably tenuous legitimacy afforded university administrations. (JMB)

A discussion of the aesthetic of wonder" and its counter-aesthetic" generated in consumer capitalism." (Author/RD)

Social changes such as growing numbers of young people, increasing technology, rising demand for research on social problems, and new aspirations of youth call for rapid, but rational response from the entire campus community. (NS)

There is a need today for selectivity in the education of the young in view of our cultural pluralism and diverse individual needs. (CK)