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Abstract

After years of curricular proliferation and an expectation of continuing growth in funding, the socioeconomic and demographic conditions warranting program expansion may have ceased to exist for most American colleges and universities. Predictions for the 1980s seem to indicate that academic renewal, changes, and additions need to occur within constant, if not decreasing, resources. Thus, in view of the goal of retaining curricular flexibility and providing conditions for academic change for the next decade, reasons to reduce or discontinue academic programs of poor quality, low productivity, or questionable centrality are pervasive. While much attention has been placed on institutionally initiated program closures, relatively little research has been geared toward assessing the role and efforts of agencies for higher education in initiating and implementing curricular change in general and reductions in particular.

Author

Gerlinda S. Melchiori

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