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Peer reviewedAdelman, Clifford – Change, 1999
Trends in projected demand for higher education are examined, including those resulting from new economic incentives for college attendance. Topics discussed include enrollment trends among traditional-age, older, and continuing students; noncredit students at traditional institutions; and distance students. Various aspects of "capacity" are…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, Educational Demand, Educational Supply
Direct linkAdelman, Clifford – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2005
This article offers a five-level variable that highlights the level and the consistency of a student's educational "anticipations," and tests the explanatory power of this approach to the histories of traditional age community college students using the postsecondary transcript files of the NELS:88\2000 longitudinal study. In logistic…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Probability, Credits, College Students
Download full textAdelman, Clifford – 1992
Tracking the changes in the community college from the 1960's to the 1980's, this report focuses on attendance patterns of community college students and relates them to students' educational objectives, fields of study, and demographic characteristics. The report relies on findings from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, College Role
Adelman, Clifford – Community College Journal, 2003
Among the principal assumptions that have governed enrollment management in community colleges for the past two decades is that the community college sector serves a distinctly older population than do other sectors of the post-secondary system. When the noted community college researcher, Arthur Cohen of the University of California-Los Angeles,…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Higher Education
Adelman, Clifford – 1989
Information is presented on the use of transcripts to validate institutional mission, proposing that transcript archives can serve as grounds against which the validity of an institution's claimed mission with respect to its primary beneficiaries can be measured. This is done with a focus on the community college. The National Longitudinal Study…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Aspiration, College Attendance, College Role
Adelman, Clifford – 1987
Previously published or publicly accessed data, as well as two new sources--Postsecondary Transcript Sample (PETS) of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Graduating Class of 1972 (NLS), and the recently completed 5th Follow-Up Survey (1986) of the NLS cohort, with original calculations derived--were used for this statistical study…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Attendance, College Faculty, Educational Assessment
