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Niles, Wallace M. – 1990
In recognition of the importance of diversity, and in response to numerous requests from the college community, New York City Technical College (NYCTC) developed a profile of fall semester 1989 students enrolled in each curriculum, each academic division, and the entire college, based on students' ethnicity, primary language, and country of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Ethnic Groups, Females
Digby, Kenneth E. – 1986
In spring 1986, a study was conducted at Fayetteville Technical Institute (FTI), North Carolina, to determine why students decided to continue their education, what factors triggered their enrollment, and what factors influenced their decision to attend FTI. A questionnaire was administered to 119 students enrolled in randomly selected day and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Choice, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Trends
Download full textMing, Marilyn; MacDonald, Gary W. – 1985
The Rural Library Training Project has been undertaken to design and implement a basic training curriculum for the staff of rural school and public libraries in Alberta, Canada. The first phase, Planning and Analysis, began on December 1, 1984, and this official report covers activities to April 1, 1985. Phase One addressed the nature of the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Demography, Distance Education
Gorman, Kathleen L. – 1984
The purpose of this study conducted in May 1984 was to: (1) develop a demographic profile of the typical student user of Minnesota University's Walter Library; (2) confirm the validity of a similar survey conducted the previous year; and (3) determine why subjects used this particular library. The third objective was added to this survey via the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Demography, Evaluation Criteria
Creative Research Group, Ltd., Toronto (Ontario). – 1987
This document reports the results of a study of literacy in Canada conducted for the Southam News in 1987. During the study, 2,398 Canadians were surveyed to determine the levels of literacy they possessed and how they coped in society if they were illiterate. The research methodology is based on an assessment of literacy conducted in 1985 by the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Demography
Ming, Marilyn; MacDonald, Gary – 1987
The purpose of the Rural Library Training Project was to design, implement, and evaluate a basic training curriculum for the staff of rural libraries in Alberta, Canada. This Phase Four Summative Report describes project activities carried out from April 1, 1986 through June 30, 1987. These activities included the completion of the field test, the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems
Holahan, Carole K.; Kelley, H. Paul – 1974
To obtain a demographic description of University of Texas at Austin (U.T. Austin) transfer students, to investigate transfer students' evaluations of the university and of their previous college, and to compare transfer students with non-transfer undergraduate students, 1,365 responses to a questionnaire were analyzed. The survey explored student…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Students, College Transfer Students, Comparative Analysis
Crowley, Pamela M.; Garcia, Maria L. – 1992
A study was done to determine whether any community school districts within the purview of New York City Board of Education had been able to integrate the Chancellor's call to action for multicultural education at the Social Action-Decision Making level, which had been designated as the highest level of multicultural curriculum approaches. The…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Community Schools, Curriculum Development, Demography
Aagard, Steven D. – 1991
The effect of academic advising on perceptions of relevance by students from two developing countries in East Africa (Tanzania and Malawi) was studied through a survey. The dependent variable was relevance of education to career goals and to national agricultural development goals. The presence and/or adequacy of academic advising was the…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Age, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Trends
Jolly, Paul; And Others – 1980
Basic statistics on degree distribution, type of employment, training and credentials, responsibilities, distribution of specialties and disciplines, and demographic characteristics of new hire faculty and continuing faculty at U.S. medical schools from 1968-1978 are presented. The emphasis is on faculty who received their first medical school…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Credentials, Demography, Employment Patterns
McDowell, Lena; Morgan, Frank B. – 1990
Comparing regional and subregional division characteristics of public elementary and secondary education in the United States, this report presents selected key statistics for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 5 outlying areas. This report is based on responses to the "Public Elementary and Secondary School Universe" and the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Government Publications, Institutional Characteristics
Langwell, Kathryn; And Others – 1985
A survey of young physicians in rural areas was conducted and information was gathered from other data sources and analyzed for three main purposes: (1) to evaluate the retention of National Health Service Corps (NHSC) alumni in Health Manpower Shortage Areas (HMSAs); (2) to document the distribution of NHSC alumni, Private Practice Option (PPO)…
Descriptors: Background, Community Characteristics, Community Size, Decision Making
Mizell, Lee – National Endowment for the Arts, 2005
This report describes public participation in the arts across the four U.S. census regions: the Northeast, the Midwest, the West, and the South. It incorporates data from the 1982, 1992, and 2002 Surveys of Public Participation in the Arts, as well as secondary data on regional demographics, the arts landscape, and consumer spending. In…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Participation, Art Activities, Art Education
Broughman, Stephen – 1996
This report on the private school universe presents data on K-12 schools by school size, school level, religious orientation, geographical region, and program emphasis. The numbers of students and teachers are reported in the same categories. The number of students is also reported by race/ethnicity and grade level. Tables present data by three…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends, Institutional Characteristics, Instructional Program Divisions
Von Wald, Stephen C. – 1991
An overview of Minnesota's Arrowhead Community College Region's (ACCR's) comprehensive student outcomes program is provided in this annual research report, reviewing activities and data for the 1990-91 academic year. First, introductory material discusses the national movement to measure institutional effectiveness, ACCR's efforts to assess both…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Outcomes Assessment
