SCUP establishes first full-time secretariat in New York. Membership continues to steadily row but finances are strained. Higher education administrators see little need for planning after expansion. Proposition 13 and continued recessions bode ill for higher education. Demographic drop in enrollment looms for next two decades.
SCUP comes near to collapse and bankruptcy.
Planning suddenly popular with institutions as a survival tool. Need to repair or rebuild instant campuses of sixties, aging of professoriate, and questions about relevance of curriculum, bring new planning pressures. SCUP, back in the black, returns to Ann Arbor and full time secretariat. Future role and purposes under almost continuous review, culminating in report of Task Force to Assess the Mission and Activities of the Society. SCUP-20 marks maturity.