The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment met to hear testimony on ''Keeping the Pell Grant Promise: Increasing Enrollment, Supporting Success.'' The meeting was entirely remote. The aim of the meeting was to examine trends related to Pell eligible students' access to public four-year institutions, the State and institutional…

This article aims to study the impact of the institution's strategic plan and the given student benefits and/or provided services on the student retention/enrollment rates. Institutional sustainability and student performance/motivation can be maintained with proper guidelines and enrollment management practices aligned with the university…

Increasing workload due to reduced numbers of general practitioners, a population boom and an aging population has increased the need for accessible distance learning for the UK's primary care doctors. The Royal College of General Practitioners is now in its eighth year of delivering high quality e-learning to 72,000 registered users via its…

Timely analysis of trends and issues in TVE can help TVE stakeholders cope with rather than oppose them. Educating in the direction of the trend and resolving the important issues can maximize TVE's chance of success. The purpose of this paper was to identify trends and issues in the TVE in 10 Indo-Pacific countries. To achieve this purpose, a…

College and career pathways represent a significant national educational reform movement supported by federal, state, and philanthropic funding. High school pathways combine career and technical education with rigorous academics, work-based learning, and student supports to provide equitable access to postsecondary opportunities. Strong research…

Progress made during the 1973-1974 school year by the Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City and priorities for the next year are discussed. The particular areas that are focused upon are: the accountability system, expanded access, participative governance, the district master plan, and future priorities. (DB)

This study provides a framework educational decision-makers can use to formulate public policies that will favorably influence the retention behavior of K-12 teachers. A teacher retention model is estimated for a sample of all teachers employed by Washington State school districts between 1984 and 1987. After an introduction, the empirical model…

To examine the views and experiences of high school journalism faculty regarding their efforts at recruiting minority students into journalism, a study surveyed journalism teachers from 100 randomly selected high schools in Kentucky (31 teachers responded). Questions concerned the teachers' college education, teaching loads, overall enrollment,…

The planning office of a large urban university produced an induced course load matrix (ICLM) analysis to support the university's plans for undergraduate enrollment growth at its three campuses. The ICLM tables, based on the complete course histories of the 1993 entering cohort, summarize the program and course selections of a cohort of students…

Women computer science students at the College of Staten Island (CSI) in New York have a substantially higher pass rate than their male classmates; however, their enrollment and retention rates are low. During the last year and a half women on the computer science faculty at CSI developed two projects designed to increase the enrollment and…

Representatives from 154 National Association for Business Teacher Education institutions responded to a questionnaire designed to elicit responses about the most effective recruiting practices for business teacher education programs. Several questions were included to determine the present status of business education programs and trends in these…

Higher education now faces problems which inhibit it from planning major new programs for the future. The two most serious problems are crises in funding aggravated by dwindling enrollments and lack of continuity in leadership. Teacher education programs are often spared from being cut--some have been expanded--because they are cheap to run, but…

The effect of alternative census dates on the determination of student enrollment and retention rates and the accuracy of tuition revenue projections was analyzed at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. A set of pseudo-extract files was created for the first 8 weeks of two consecutive fall semesters (1993 and 1994). The accuracy of…

This analysis looks at the effects of changes in school district size on the district budget. Specifically, budgetary changes reflecting the relative emphasis on instruction are analyzed. Proportional budget allocations are used to represent the relative investment of resources in functions or activities of school districts. Resource allocation…

The paper presents an overview of enrollment in college-level geography courses from 1949 to 1978 and predicts enrollment trends for the near future. All data are based on the Directory of College Geography of the United States. First published in 1949, the directory lists all college and university departments offering geography, the size and…