The Department of Education's announcement of new policy concerning the evaluation of college desegregation efforts could affect the monitoring of compliance in several states in which court-ordered desegregation plans have expired. The higher standards are based on the 1992 Supreme Court ruling, United States v. Fordice. (MSE)

The creation of usable space for gatherings and socializing is an important consideration in any campus planning program. The University of California-San Diego has a large outdoor assembly area. An addition at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo encompasses an existing pedestrian path. A new building at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is designed as a…

The State of Florida Department of Education provides pre-and-post-graduation data for public high school graduates throughout Florida. These data were used for the present report to produce data sets for all M-DCPS regular high schools and charter high schools graduating students in 2008 and 2009. Summary data for the district are also provided.…

Information on institutions engaged in academic collective bargaining with recognized bargaining units in 1982 is presented. Attention is directed to agents elected, "no-agent" elections, decertifications, strikes and legislation, and adjunct faculty bargaining units. It was found that the number of institutions conducting collective bargaining…

Drawing data from both governmental and nongovernmental sources, this pamphlet makes the case that many people are now excluded from postsecondary education because of increasing tuition and other student charges at state and community colleges. Eight facts concerning tuition and college-going rates are documented: (1) the percentage of high…

Information on six colleges that were removed from the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) list of censured administrations and four colleges that were added to the censured list is presented. Censure, following an investigation of a particular case, informs the academic community that the college's administration is not…

Trends in the number of transfer students enrolled in New Jersey four-year institutions in the fall semesters from 1981 to 1985 are examined, along with the extent to which community colleges have contributed to the pool of students who transfer. Also considered are characteristics of students who transferred to state colleges. Overall, the trend…

A re-published version of the 1959 "The Efficiency of Freedom," Report of the Committee on Government and Higher Education is presented. After a 2-year study (designed to define relationships that should properly exist between public officials and state institutions of higher education, identify the principal areas in which state control…

In Texas higher education, fiscal 1974 was a year of reassessment. Although student enrollments and state funding for Texas colleges and universities climbed to record levels, caution and concern for the future dominated higher education planning. That concern was prompted by an inflationary economy, shifting state and national priorities,…

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) has issued a "social manifesto" on the future of higher education, "To Secure the Blessings of Liberty." It seeks to chronicle the fundamental changes in America's domestic environment and the resulting challenges to higher education. (MLW)

England's 1984-85 national planning and policy initiative in response to declining resources for public higher education institutions is outlined, and the results of a study of institutional responses to those changes are presented. (MSE)

Faced with an increasing need for data by the West Liberty State College administration and the West Virginia Board of Regents, an in-house system was designed that provides online update/inquiry to an integrated, nonredundant collection of data files via user-friendly menus. (Author/MLW)

A Missouri proposal that parents be allowed to set up special savings accounts for their children's college education that would be exempt from state income tax is described. It is compared to a plan in Michigan that allows parents to prepay tuition at colleges in the state. (MLW)

Through a coordinated approach, Evergreen State achieved three goals--enrollment growth, increased student retention, and greater public awareness. Six steps to develop a marketing plan are identified: review the institution's position; establish administrative leadership, adapt educational services; and prepare, coordinate, carry out, and…

This report presents information about higher education in Arkansas. Arkansas is 49th in the United States in the number of citizens over the age of 25 with a baccalaureate or higher degree. Arkansas faces shortages of qualified teachers and nurses in regions of the state at a time when the number of graduates in these professions is declining…