This book offers essays on the response of public four-year colleges to the enrollment trends and challenges of the 1980s, particularly the challenges of providing service in light of the unexpected demand for higher education in that decade. The issues and lessons of the experience of the 1980s are covered in 10 chapters by higher education experts and practitioners. The chapters are as follows: (1) "Public College Enrollment Trends of 1979-1989" by Ernest L Boyer; (2) "Immigration: Recognizing the Benefit, Meeting the Challenges" by Lee Kerschner; (3) "Institutional Outreach: Enrollment Issues of the 1980s, Enrollment Strategies for the 1990s" by Shirley F. Binder; (4) "Rethinking Institutional Outreach" by Wayne Sigler; (5) "Looking Back While Moving forward: Curricular Lessons from the 1980s for the 1990s" by Stephen R. Portch; (6) "The Changing Nature of the Transfer Student Population" by Louis W. Bender and Harry C. Doster; (7) "Democracy's Promise: Access for Adults in Higher Education" by Timothy Lehmann and Mary Edinburgh; (8) "Better Measures of Equity in Minority Participation and Enrollment" by Richard C. Richardson and D. Michael Pavel; (9) "Minority Participation in Higher Education: Trends, Implications, and Imperatives" by Muriel Morisey Spence; and (10) "Building an Ethnically Diverse Institution" by Eugene M. Hughes. References accompany the articles. (JB)