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There are dire predictions for future enrollments in 4-year colleges due to Coronavirus. According to Lapovsky (2020), undergraduate enrollments may decline 15 to 40 percent. Therefore, undergraduate revenue declines could be as much as 20 percent and more for individual universities. Students may be reluctant to choose expensive name-brand schools that have moved to online (remote) instruction. Instead, students and parents may choose schools that are in-state or closer to home (Poliakoff, 2020). International student enrollments are also expected to decline due to travel restrictions. These difficulties are likely to cause cash flow challenges for many universities around the country. This study provides key insights as to the cash flow problems faced by university leaders and highlights cash flow management opportunities that can provide some relief to colleges. Cash flow issues are synthesized under (1) Activities that cause cash inflow increases (short term and long term) and (2) Activities that cause cash inflow decreases (short term and long term). General cash inflow decreases, and cash outflow increases are also briefly discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the present until at least 1995, American schools will be forced to confront enrollment and staffing fluctuations because of demographic shifts. Although births steadily declined during 1961–1975, the number of children born each year has grown steadily since 1976, and is anticipated to continue until 1987. As a consequence of this rise in births, enrollment in nursery schools, kindergartens, and elementary schools is expected to rise significantly throughout the rest of the 1980s and into the 1990s. Secondary school enrollment, however, will continue downward until the mid‐1990s, when the mini‐boom from elementary schools reaches the high schools. The demand for additional teachers will intensify as more students enter the elementary schools; by 1995, 627,000 more preschool, kindergarten, and elementary teachers will be needed—a thirty‐eight percent increase over 1982 demands. More secondary school teachers will be needed, as well, but not until after 1990. Until then, job prospects in the secondary schools are likely to get worse before getting better. Should current teacher education enrollment trends persist, the teacher surplus of the 1970s will become a shortage by the end of the 1980s.