Components of the professional role of the pharmacist were studied. Role components evaluated were people, status, and science. A questionnaire was administered to the student body of the School of Pharmacy, the University of Mississippi, for two consecutive academic years. The questionnaire is appended. (Author/MLW)

California's community colleges are the state's largest workforce preparation provider to technically skilled positions in well-established occupations such as nursing, computer and data processing, and administration of justice. Each semester, the Institutional Development and Technology (IDT) office, in cooperation with the Dean of Occupational…

The San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) conducted a survey in spring 1993 to assess the satisfaction of continuing education students with instruction and support services at the districts Continuing Education Centers. The survey was administered in-class to a 10% sample of continuing education students. Over 3,300 surveys were…

This report presents a second look at the effects of Minnesota's School District Enrollment Options Program, usually referred to as the Open Enrollment Program. This interdistrict enrollment program allows families and students to apply for enrollment in any school district other than the one in which they reside. This document focuses on the…

In November 1993, Harrisburg Area Community College, in Pennsylvania, sent questionnaires to 1,138 graduates from the 1992-93 academic year seeking information about their employment or educational status and their perceptions of the extent to which their educational objectives were achieved. Responses were received from 885 graduates, for a…

This publication is a survey to be used by institutions of higher education in the United States in creating a profile of new faculty. An introduction notes that this instrument was administered at 5 schools (2 liberal arts colleges, a community college, a comprehensive university, and a research university) and that 53 percent of the respondents…

This two-part report presents the results of a budget and funding sources survey of South Carolina library media center programs. In Part 1, survey results are presented for demographic information, staffing information, funding sources, funding amounts from specific sources, allocation of resources, and categories of expenditures. In Part 2, the…

Database documentation is provided for a data file containing survey statistics on students graduating during the 1983-84 academic year from colleges and universities in the continental United States, with particular emphasis on students who were newly qualified to teach. The 39-item questionnaire focused on respondents' educational and…

This report provides technical documentation associated with a 1980 Census of Population and Housing Summary Tape File (STF) 3F--which contains responses to the extended questionnaire summarized in STF 3, aggregated by school district. The file contains sample data inflated to represent the total population, 100% counts, and unweighted sample…

This report provides technical documentation associated with a 1980 Census of Population and Housing Summary Tape File 1F--the School Districts File. The file contains complete-count data of population and housing aggregated by school district. Population items tabulated include age, race (provisional data), sex, marital status, Spanish origin…

This descriptive study prepared by the Association of American Medical Colleges displays current data on the available manpower resource of salaried faculty at U.S. medical schools for the academic year 1977-78. Comparison tables on selected characteristics are included for the academic year 1967-68, the first year for which data on medical school…

The Florida Merit Schools Program is described and evaluated in this report. Program goals were to increase student academic performance and to provide economic incentives to school staffs. Research phases involved: document analysis of school district plans submitted to the state Department of Education; interviews with school personnel from five…

This report examines arts participation in the ten largest metropolitan areas in the United States using data from the 2002 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. These data indicate that, in general, these metropolitan regions tend to be more alike than different with respect to arts participation patterns. Analysis reveals that while…

Describing the goals for student equity developed by California's Cypress College, this Plan provides data on outcomes and projections for each goal through 1997 and strategies to be undertaken to meet those goals. Following an executive summary, introduction, and time line of student equity activities from April 1993 to spring 1995, data are…

A study examined the reasons for the relatively low level of participation in adult, community, and further education (ACFE) in Victoria, Australia. Of the 1,229 randomly selected individuals surveyed via telephone, 942 (77%) had never participated in ACFE, 184 (15%) had not participated since 1994, and only 103 (8%) were currently enrolled in an…