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Dumont, Richard G.; Troelstrup, Richard L. – 1980
Use of the American College Testing (ACT) Program assessment battery for the measurement of student growth at a regional state university is described. A stratified random sample of 112 seniors at Tennessee Technological University was given the residual form of the ACT Assessment battery for comparison with their pre-college ACT test performance.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, College Seniors
Schaubhut, Judyth L., Ed. – 1978
Three conference papers on American higher education are presented. The first article, "The College in American Education," by Henry Steele Commager, examines the history of American higher education, identifies its major characteristics and how things are changing, and suggests some agenda items for the future. The second article,…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Access to Education, Change Agents, College Faculty
Download full textAper, Jeffery P. – 1990
A systems model for the study of state higher education policy is adapted to reflect structural relationships within and among key units of government and organizations informally involved in the policy-making process, as well as more fluid political and economic contextual elements that mediate and shape the interaction between them. The model is…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Budgets, Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy
Wharton, Clifton R., Jr. – 1986
Declines in high school and college attendance and completion for blacks, factors that contribute to this decline, and strategies for improvement are addressed by the Chancellor of the State University of New York. Black youth attend college disproportionate to their representation in the population, in large part because of the high school…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Achievement Need, Black Achievement
DiBiasio, Daniel A. – 1986
Recommendations of six state reports that addressed issues confronting state governments and public higher education in the last 2 decades, as well as some new issues, are considered using content analysis. The reports were prepared by formal study commissions in the following states: Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, and New York. In…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Blue Ribbon Commissions, Centralization, Change Strategies
Ikeda, Hiroshi – 1986
The Joint First-Stage Achievement Test (JFAT) is a new unified college entrance examination developed in Japan. This report presents the statistical results of the JFAT and the applicants' behavior change which appeared through the first six years of administration from 1979 to 1984. Three major features of the JFAT are described: (1) jointly made…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Applicants, College Choice, College Entrance Examinations
Davis-Van Atta, David; And Others – 1985
The role of 48 liberal arts colleges in the training of American scientists was studied, with attention to undergraduate/graduate education and research and development (R&D). It was found that the leading liberal arts colleges rank at or near the top of all U.S. institutions in the training of scientists. Whereas universities have seen an…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Programs, College Science
Morris, Frances J. – 1981
The views of professionals concerning the future of the clinical laboratory sciences were assessed using a modification of the Delphi technique. The participating administrators, educators, and bench technologists were asked what they felt the clinical laboratory sciences would be like in 20 years, and their responses were used to develop…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Articulation (Education), Certification, College Faculty
Bowen, Otis R. – 1977
A governor's perspective on higher education suggests that government needs to assure itself that the activities it funds are effective in achieving their goals, that college management practices are efficient, that postsecondary education is equally accessible to all citizens, and that excellence in higher education is achieved. Additional issues…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, College Administration, College Graduates
Fenton, Joann C. – 1978
The metropolitan university is viewed from the context of individual, group, and university level of social interaction. Metropolitan universities are defined as state-supported public universities located in urban areas and legislatively mandated as teaching institutions. Resources are usually dependent upon the number of full-time equivalent…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, College Faculty, College Role
Coleman, D. R.; Bolte, J. R. – 1980
A planning and evaluation model for management information systems (MIS) at the institutional or system level in higher education is presented. The procedure provides an analytical approach for assessing the effectiveness of an existing information system utilizing a variation of the Business Systems Planning methodology developed by the IBM…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Data Processing, Decision Making
Seppanen, Loretta – 1998
This paper discusses policy issues faced by two-year colleges in the state of Washington during the first year of implementation of performance funding. Four key policy questions were reviewed: (1) the reward versus entitlement paradigm shift, which forces educators to alter expectations about "entitlement" to higher education funding…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Educational Finance, Evaluation Criteria
Zeglen, Marie E.; Schmidt, Edward J. – 1992
A study was done of salary determinants for academic librarians in light of the increasing trend to include academic and librarian faculty in joint bargaining units for compensation. The study analyzed position, gender, faculty status, rank, tenure, experience, and academic preparation as salary determinants for 469 librarians at 25 state colleges…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Academic Rank (Professional), Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Galliano, Grace; Gildea, Kathleen – 1982
Demographic characteristics, interpersonal and academic problems, underlying motives and needs, and ultimate goals of nontraditional students at a four-year liberal arts college were evaluated based on survey responses. The students were enrolled in the spring semester 1981 at a suburban publicly-supported, commuter college, located in the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Commuter Colleges, Females
Rowh, Mark C. – 1980
Needs of off-campus students in Southern West Virginia, and specifically students enrolled at Bluefield State College, are considered. The computer college has several off-campus locations, including one 60 miles away, and it serves a population that tends to have low educational attainment levels. One environmental factor that influences student…
Descriptors: College Students, Commuter Colleges, Commuting Students, Economically Disadvantaged
