Females comprise less than 25 percent of the student enrollment in Connecticut's state technical colleges, and more than 70 percent of them are clustered in data processing technology. For this reason, a sex equity workshop was held for a total of 28 representatives of the state's technical colleges. All of the participants felt that they gained a…

Fiscal crisis in New England has been greater than that of early 1980s; colleges and universities should heed lessons. Presents guidelines extracted from study on organizations that effectively managed cutbacks in programs. Effective strategic planning was based on 8 preconditions that define system's capabilities to identify and react to decline…

This report, designed as a planning tool, describes recent enrollment trends in Connecticut and projects enrollment in Connecticut's colleges and universities through the end of the century. Projections are reported as ranges because of the volatility of attendance patterns. Tables present data on undergraduate, graduate, full- and part-time…

Student mobility in Connecticut has been great, and the number of students moving from one institution to another in 1975 was well over 7,000. The guidebook for students and their counselors is intended to enable a student to develop a plan of study that may include courses at more than one institution. Included are policy profiles for two- and…

Recommendations of the Connecticut Board of Higher Education regarding changes in the organization and structure of the public higher education system are reviewed, and recent policy initiatives of the board concerning student access, program planning, and capital investment and financing are described. Additionally, the background for the board's…