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Windham's fall is scarcely an isolated case. For America's 1,500 private colleges, the 1970s have proved as much a time of retrenchment in higher education as the 1960s were a period of headlong expansion. Ten colleges shut their doors in 1978, bringing the total of closings for the decade to 129, more than double the number of new colleges that have opened. The campus kill ratio seems sure to soar in the years ahead. A Carnegie study predicts that as many as 300 institutions will vanish through the 1980s. Some educators expect an even greater...
...their revenue. Unfortunately for them, that prop will soon begin to wobble. With the great postwar baby boom petering out, the number of 18-year-olds in the U.S. population is about to decline sharply. The crop should peak at 4.3 million this year, then drop annually, falling a total of 25% by 1992. Notes Harvard President Derek Bok: "The institutions that closed in the past few years did so without the impact of the decline in enrollment. The decline will provide much more serious pressure on closings in the next generation...
...biggest fund drives in their history. Harvard College plans to launch a campaign this summer whose goal is likely to be at least $200 million and which will be coordinated by 100 paid staffers. The half-dozen most ambitious drives currently under way (see box) are seeking a combined total of $1.56 billion...
...early last year of Ricker College in Houlton, Me. In Dallas, the well-regarded night-school classes of Southern Methodist University once accounted for 35% of S.M.U.'s enrollment; with seven new community colleges in the area, that part-time enrollment now accounts for only 13% of the total...
More Americans still read afternoon rather than morning papers; indeed, afternoon papers account for about 57% of total daily circulation. For the past few years, however, city P.M.s have been generally losing circulation while many A.M.s have been gaining. Publishers attribute this attrition to the scourges of the afternoon: heightened competition from television news and suburban dailies, traffic jams that make midday delivery difficult, and readers' morning habits. Says Dallas Times Herald Publisher Lee Guittar: "People are acclimated to having their newspaper with their morning coffee...