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Download full textZumeta, William; Green, Kenneth C. – 1987
Results of a study concerning the relationships between state policies and private college enrollments, enrollment demographics, and finance are presented. After considering national enrollment trends in the independent sector, attention is directed to the impacts on private colleges of state fiscal policies, including aid to private colleges and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Planning, Data Collection, Enrollment Trends
Terkla, Dawn Geronimo; Wright, Susan M. – 1986
Factors that influenced applicants' decisions to attend Tufts University, a private institution in Massachusetts, were studied based on a 1985 survey. Enrollment decisions were examined for the following groups: matriculants and nonmatriculants, liberal arts and engineering applicants, applicants from each of seven geographic regions, applicants…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Choice, Decision Making, Engineering
Phipps, Ron; McDaniel, Cleve – 1988
An ongoing study was initiated to provide a reliable means of defining and measuring factors affecting students' performance as they move from high school to college, including the reasons why some are more able than others to excel and/or persist. The study provides public high schools, colleges, universities and the Missouri Coordinating Board…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, College Students
Crosson, Patricia H. – 1988
Many important institutional policy and practice issues related to public service in universities are discussed, including: (1) mission statements and definitions (formal mission statements and broad and narrow definitions); (2) organizational structures (centralization and decentralization); (3) leadership (line officer, staff officer, and other…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Institutional Role
Velasquez, Patrick M. – 1996
Chicano student achievement remains low at virtually all stages of the educational pipeline but the low rates of postsecondary matriculation and persistence are especially alarming. Tinto (1993) has described student persistence in higher education as a longitudinal process of interaction between an individual student and his/her institutional…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Role, College Students
Hilmer, Michael J.; Leyden, Dennis Patrick – 1998
Using a model of rational student choice as its foundation, this study examined whether state policies toward higher education encourage junior colleges and universities to admit too many students. The optimal-size decisions of budget-maximizing junior colleges and universities were derived and compared to the optimal-size decisions of a social…
Descriptors: College Choice, Community Colleges, Economic Factors, Economic Impact
Kent, Rollin – 1993
This paper examines the changes that are emerging in Mexican higher education, focusing especially on the shifting nature of government-university relationships and some of the consequences for management and governance at the establishment level. It provides a brief outline of trends in the recent past, discusses the changes that have developed…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Federal Regulation
Prewitt, Sidney A.; And Others – 1986
An economic model of the effects of colleges on their communities was developed. The Texas Input-Output Model was modified into a higher education budgetary model. Included were the positive benefits of tax savings and estimates of the net effect on various communities in which state-supported colleges and universities are located. The output…
Descriptors: Budgets, Business Cycles, Economic Climate, Employment Projections
Roberts, Patty; Anderson, Janet; Yanish, Paula – 1997
This study examined the relationship between demographic variables and academic misconduct (cheating) among undergraduate students at a mid-sized, four-year public university. A total of 422 students from 22 classes completed a 27-item self-report measure assessing their involvement in 17 types of academic misconduct. In addition, the measure…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Cheating, Class Rank
Hampton, George; Higham, David – 1994
This paper describes how four institutions of higher education, local businesses, and community leaders cooperated to work for change in University Heights (Newark, New Jersey). Initial sections describe the community and the economic and social changes it has seen in recent decades. These sections also review how the four institutions established…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Development, Cooperative Planning, Higher Education
Katsinas, Stephen G. – 1993
The most widely accepted classification system of institutions of higher education, the Carnegie system, does not provide any sub-groupings for the category of two-year institutions. This lack of precision has inhibited the understanding of the diversity among and between community colleges, their missions, functions, curricula, students, and…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Classification, College Curriculum, Community Colleges
Velloso, Jacques – 1990
Planning for the higher education system in the past involved designing, implementing, and evaluating a set of envisaged policies, strategies and operational actions for the medium and long-run. In Brazil, however, this sort of planning was virtually abandoned and replaced by short-term planning, partly as a result of the interplay of political…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Boatwright, Micheal A.; And Others – 1994
This study explored perceptions of two-year public college students regarding their growth and preparation, in relation to areas of study, gender, cumulative grade point average (GPA), hours of current employment, and respondents' perceptions of goal attainment. The selected samples of students consisted of 6,655 students at 35 two-year public…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Goal Orientation, Grade Point Average, Majors (Students)
Kowarsky, Judy – 1994
High school transcripts and standardized college entrance examination test score results from approximately 6 percent of California's 1990 public high school graduates (n=13,641) were evaluated by University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) college admissions officers as if they were records submitted by actual freshman…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
Reynolds, Katherine C.; Nunn, Claudia E. – 1997
This study investigated the extent of student interaction in undergraduate classrooms and the relationship between instructor techniques and interaction, as well as differences in interactions experienced by freshmen compared to those of juniors and seniors (upperclassmen). Survey questionnaires were completed by 36 instructors, 226 freshmen, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Juniors
