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Bleemer, Zachary; Mehta, Aashish – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Underrepresented minority (URM) college students have been steadily earning degrees in relatively less-lucrative fields of study since the mid-1990s. A decomposition reveals that this widening gap is principally explained by rising stratification at public research universities, many of which increasingly enforce GPA restriction policies that…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Majors (Students), Educational Attainment
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Maxwell, G. W.; O'Hare, Judith Knight – 1979
A study was conducted to identify new and emerging entry-level office and distributive occupations and analyze their effect on the business education curriculum. Two methods of gathering data were used in the study. First, data were gathered from interviews of forty-seven office firms, twelve individuals who were informed regarding office…
Descriptors: Automation, Clerical Occupations, Demand Occupations, Distributive Education
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1990
Prepared to assist the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges in the development of its "1990-91 Basic Agenda," this paper discusses several major statewide trends with important implications for California's community colleges. The paper offers data on population and enrollment growth, labor market changes requiring…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Commuting Students, Demography, Educational Assessment
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1987
Prepared to help community college planners and policy makers identify likely future conditions and draw implications from that information, this report focuses on those statewide trends and policy directions considered important to the development of educational programs and services. Specific areas covered in the report are: (1) demographics,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Community Colleges, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 2000
Officials in charge of California's community colleges and universities worked with an advisory committee consisting of representatives of two- and four-year public and independent colleges to develop a plan to ensure an adequate nursing workforce for California. The group reviewed existing nursing education programs, trends in the health care…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Bachelors Degrees, Change Strategies
Fagnoni, Cynthia M. – 2001
The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined progress in meeting work-focused goals of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The following issues were considered: (1) states' progress in implementing TANF; (2) the status of families who have left welfare; (3) the characteristics of adults currently receiving TANF; (4) states'…
Descriptors: Adults, Delivery Systems, Economic Climate, Economic Factors
Peters, Alan H.; Fisher, Peter S. – 2002
The effectiveness of state enterprise zone programs was examined by using a hypothetical-firm model called the Tax and Incentives Model-Enterprise Zones (TAIM-ez) model to analyze the value of enterprise zone incentives to businesses across the United States and especially in the 13 states that had substantial enterprise zone programs by 1990. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Corporations, Cost Effectiveness, Definitions