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Yan Zheng; Lee Andes – State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2024
Each year, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) provides a tuition and fees report based on charges approved by boards of visitors at Virginia public institutions. The report includes a list of tuition and fee charges to in-state and out-of-state students and for undergraduate and graduate programs. It also provides trends…
Descriptors: State Aid, Tuition, Fees, Funding Formulas
Romano, Richard M.; D'Amico, Mark M. – Association for Institutional Research, 2021
A commonly used metric for measuring college costs, drawn from data in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), is expenditure per full-time equivalent (FTE) student. This article discusses an error in this per FTE calculation when using IPEDS data, especially with regard to community colleges. The problem is that expenditures…
Descriptors: Noncredit Courses, Enrollment, Community Colleges, Institutional Characteristics
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King, Alison; Power-deFur, Lissa A.; Perry, Jeannine; Wind, Erin; Anderson, Sarah – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive analysis of the aspects within speech-language pathology programs that students deem to be important or relevant as they apply to and subsequently select a graduate program. Method: Data were collected through an online survey of 627 individuals who had applied to a master's degree…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, College Applicants, College Choice, Influences
Zheng, Yan; Kang, Wendy – State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2018
The Appropriation Act directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to make a report annually to the governor and the chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees on the annual change in total charges for tuition and fees approved by the boards of visitors at Virginia public institutions of higher education…
Descriptors: Tuition, Fees, Higher Education, State Colleges
Ashburn, Elyse – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
For years administrators at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, in Richmond, Virginia, had a hunch that students were not taking full advantage of the college's advising services. Still, they were disappointed two years ago, when the Community College Survey of Student Engagement revealed that their students rarely used career services and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Counseling, Academic Advising, Student Personnel Services
Virginia State Council of Higher Education, Richmond. – 1981
The migration of students into and out of Virginia in the fall of 1979 was examined for first-time, full-time students enrolled as undergraduate (freshmen or transfers), first-professional, graduate, or unclassified. Overall, Virginia ranks eighth in the United States in terms of students migrating into the state. It is expected that between 1980…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Freshmen, College Students, Declining Enrollment
Puyear, Don – 1987
A study was conducted to assess the effects of 2 years of marketing and retention efforts in the Virginia community college system (VCCS) on the market segment of 18-21 year old students. The study examined enrollment trends between 1984 and 1986, using comparable data from a 1985 study. Study findings included the following: (1) the proportion of…
Descriptors: Age, College Attendance, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment
Puyear, Donald E. – 1989
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) converted from a quarter to semester calendar at the beginning of the 1988-89 academic year. A study was conducted after the first year of the use of the new calendar to determine its effects on enrollment and student persistence. Full- and part-time enrollment data and student retention rates for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Enrollment Trends, Full Time Equivalency
Virginia State Council of Higher Education, Richmond. – 1999
This report provides an overview of the tuition and fees at Virginia colleges and universities. Tuition and fees at Virginia's four-year public institutions have been among the highest regionally and nationally for many years. Between 1990 and 1999, tuition and mandatory fees increased by 65% on average. As a result, the governor and the General…
Descriptors: Colleges, Community Colleges, Educational Economics, Educational Finance
Puyear, Donald E. – 1989
A study was conducted in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) to identify changes in student retention rates since a marketing and retention initiative was undertaken in 1985. The study also sought to determine factors that may have affected retention and colleges that showed exceptionally high, low, or improved retention rates. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges
Puyear, Donald E. – 1989
A study was conducted in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) to determine the retention rates and academic achievement of part-time, degree-seeking students. The enrollment files of the VCCS colleges were examined to identify each individual enrolled in the fall quarters between 1985 and 1987, to determine full-/part-time enrollment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges
Puyear, Don – 1990
In 1989, a study was conducted of the persistence and graduation rates of full-time, degree-seeking students who enrolled in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) for the first time in fall 1981 through fall 1986. Persistence was determined by the presence of the student in the enrolled student database, regardless of whether the student…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, College Graduates, College Transfer Students
Virginia State Dept. of Community Colleges, Richmond. – 1979
This booklet contains 14 series of data tables providing comprehensive information on enrollments in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) for fall quarter, 1978. Within the tables data are provided on student enrollments by race; sex; full-/part-time status; type of program; type of award; first-time/continuing student status; credit hours…
Descriptors: Age, Black Students, Community Colleges, Day Students