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Handel, Stephen J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2009
When representatives from community colleges and selective four-year institutions gather, there is no greater flashpoint than the topic of part-time enrollment. This issue--that students coming from an institution comprising mostly part-time students should be enabled to transfer to selective four-year institutions in which full-time enrollment is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Low Income Groups, Student Diversity, Higher Education
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2010
In 1960, California developed a "master plan" for its already famed public higher education system. It was and continues to be arguably the single most influential effort to plan the future of a system of higher education in the annals of American higher education. Despite popular belief, however, the California Master Plan for Higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Educational Attainment, Academic Degrees
Los Angeles Pierce Coll., Woodland Hills, CA. – 1969
The responses of the 81% of the Fall 1968 night students completing a student-characteristics questionnaire are presented in charts and graphs, and compared with responses to similar questionnaires from previous semesters. Increases were found in the numbers of (1) full-time students taking evening classes, (2) single students, (3) students…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Enrollment, Evening Programs, Evening Students
Lombardi, John – 1975
This paper analyzes the recent and past demographic, economic, political, and social causes of community college enrollment trends. It also discusses the effects on enrollment of proximity and low cost; the reclassification of existing institutions to two-year college status; community college usurpation of functions formerly provided by other…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Factors, Enrollment, Enrollment Influences
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1976
Although enrollment is one of the bases by which the state funds its segments of higher education, different assumptions and calculation methodologies exist between the California State University and Colleges and the University of California in determining the enrollment statistics reported for budgetary purposes. The state legislature therefore…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance
Tanner, Tom; Payton, Wendy – 1980
The first of a series of statewide student profiles, this report summarizes data characterizing the 1,042,496 students enrolled in credit courses at the California community colleges during the first census week of Fall 1979. The data, presented on a series of tables, are broken down and cross-tabulated by age, enrollment status,…
Descriptors: Age, American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1978
The digest provides extensive data on postsecondary education in the state in the form of charts, graphs, and tables, with only occasional narration; it is designed for the layman, and only summary information is displayed. The information includes private as well as public institutions, significant trends, opening enrollments and their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Rank (Professional), Age, College Entrance Examinations