In 2004, the Legislature and the Governor of Washington State revised the roles and responsibilities of the Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB). House Bill 3103 directed the HECB to establish an accountability monitoring and reporting system to determine how performance would be measured, set targets for achievement within this framework,…

Using a weighted database of approximately 3,000 students, this study involves the tracing of the postsecondary history of 2,516 students who identified as Native Hawaiian, graduated from high school between 1993 and 1995, and attended college. Virtually none of the students are 100% Hawaiian. Due to a long history of intermarriage, the Hawaiian…

This report reflects the first year of a multiyear effort to examine B.A. completion cohort programs in early care and education in four California counties. The six programs under investigation were developed with similar goals: (1) To increase and retain a pool of B.A.-level professionals in the ECE field with culturally, linguistically, and…

As part of a program review process, an evaluation was done of the academic pharmacy programs at the University of Florida and Florida A & M University. The evaluation was based on site visits and review of all self-study materials. The most prominent finding and related recommendation for both programs was that Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy…

Trends that are reshaping both the delivery system and America's educational system are discussed. They include the shrinking applicant pool, nursing's image of a low-status occupation with poor work conditions and few rewards, a call for more baccalaureate and higher degree nurses, and a decrease in the need for technical nurses. (CT)

The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) set the goal of doubling the rate at which Hispanics earn bachelor's degrees. To gain a better understanding of what this would entail, HSF asked RAND to examine the implications of current trends and the costs and benefits of different approaches toward meeting the goal within 10 years. The study found that a…

July 2001 to June 2003 may have been dismal for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (down 14 percent), but it was a bull market for economics majors (up 23 percent). The greatest increase in undergraduate economics degrees over the two-year period was at state universities (up 32 percent), in particular large flagship state universities with…

At a time when most American states have embedded an initial certification test into their teacher preparation programs, Canadian educational authorities are faced with a choice: to test or not. One province, Ontario, has experimented with a standardized entry-to-the-profession testing instrument. For three years, 2002-04, teacher candidates were…

This article compares the results of the implementation of the new bachelor-master system in the Netherlands and Germany. The Bologna Process presents the common European context for this reform process. However, the respective national contexts differ, and so do the actual implementation processes and the emerging outcomes. For each of the two…

Provides salary data obtained from an American Chemical Society survey of chemical professionals. Indicates that salaries of experienced bachelor's, master's, and doctoral chemists increased between March 1983 and March 1984, but not as much as in the previous 12 months. Salaries of new bachelor's and doctoral chemists also rose. (JN)

New data on the economic benefits of attainment of a bachelor's degree, based on some corrections in statistical analyses of national longitudinal data, are reported. Results and conclusions did not change substantially, with substantial variations found among fields of study but not across institution types. (MSE)

Describes research that applied the Input-Environment-Outcome Assessment Model to the study of two specific outcomes, student satisfaction with college and bachelor's degree completion, in order to evaluate the unique contributions of entering student characteristics and specific school experiences. Examines effects of academic and…

This article offers a five-level variable that highlights the level and the consistency of a student's educational "anticipations," and tests the explanatory power of this approach to the histories of traditional age community college students using the postsecondary transcript files of the NELS:88\2000 longitudinal study. In logistic…

In the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) region, state and local governments spend about 10 percent of their combined annual budgets on colleges and universities. Whether this is the right funding level during a time of growing enrollments, when states are working to boost education participation and close achievement gaps, is a question…

A study is reported of the value of nursing program admission criteria (high school rank and grade point average, and individual and composite entrance examination scores) as predictors of undergraduate program performance, as measured by National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses scores.