Challenge of Change: Public Four Year Higher Education Enrollment Lessons from the 1980's for the 1990's

Public colleges and universities exhibited much resilience during the 1980s, as they adapted to increased student enrollments and decreases in federal and state support for education funding. Articles in the book include Ludwig and Stapleton, "Public College Enrollment Trends of 1979-1989"; Kerschner, "Immigration: Recognizing the Benefit, Meeting the Challenges"; Binder, "Institutional Outreach: Enrollment Issues of the 1980's, Enrollment Strategies for the 1990's", "Rethinking Institutional Outreach"; Portch, "Looking Back While Moving Forward: Curricular Lessons from the 1980s for the 1990s"; Bender and Doster, "Changing Nature of the Transfer Student Population"; Lehmann and Edinburgh, "Democracy's Promise: Access for Adults in Higher Education"; Richardson and Pavel, "Better Measures of Equity in Minority Participation and Enrollment"; Spence, "Minority Participation in Higher Education: Trends, Implications, and Imperatives"; and Hughes, "Building an Ethnically Diverse Institution".