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Selingo, Jeffrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000
Discusses policies of Pennsylvania's Secretary of Education, Eugene W. Hickok, Jr., which include encouraging colleges to graduate more students in four years, stressing the need to improve the academic rigor of core curricula and teacher education programs at state universities, increasing state student financial aid, and encouraging for-profit…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Government Role, Government School Relationship, Higher Education
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Information Systems. – 1977
Overall enrollment trends (changes) in each sector (state-owned, state-related, community colleges, state-aided, and private colleges and universities) of Pennsylvania higher education over the last 10 years are examined and the conditions that impact on these changes are identified. The variables included for the analysis are divided into four…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment, Economic Factors
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 1997
These hearings were concerned with the authorization of the Higher Education Act 1998 amendments. The hearing focused on affordability of postsecondary education, simplifying the student financial aid system, and academic quality for students. The document reports testimony of representatives of professional associations and Pennsylvania…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Community Colleges, Compliance (Legal)
Ehrenberg, Ronald G., Ed. – Praeger, 2006
Public higher educational institutions, where about 80 percent of all college students and 65 percent of all four-year college students are educated, appear to be in serious trouble. In order to delve more deeply into this topic, the author invited a wide-ranging team of experts to examine changes in public higher education over the last quarter…
Descriptors: Public Education, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Crosson, Patricia H. – 1979
Perspectives on eight regional conferences that were held to discuss implementation of the 1978 master plan for higher education in Pennsylvania are considered. The development of statewide systems of higher education and their increased reliance on statewide master planning is traced, and the history of coordination, governance, and planning in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Articulation (Education), College Planning