This survey of over six hundred public 2-year college presidents or administrative heads reveals a variety of interpretation of open-door admission and enrollment policies. (CA)

Presents a speech by the Minister of Education and Science in the Netherlands dealing with the problem of admissions restrictions in Dutch universities. A considerable number of applicants have to be turned away. This speech was delivered on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic University at Nijmegen. (Editor/PG)

Report of an examination of the relationship between the admissions process, school characteristics which result from the admissions process, and the proportion of a school's seniors placed in rotating internships. (Author)

This paper directs itself primarily to an examination of the relationship between educational opportunity and the overall organization of higher education. The first part of this paper is concerned with the current meaning of educational opportunity and the major issues involved in its implementation. These are: (1) the functions of higher…

This report is an abridgement of HE 001 613 which described an extensive research project at Brown University on the determination and usefulness of nonacademic admission criteria in the selection of college students. This report puts the problem of admission at selective colleges in historical perspective and discusses the results of the study in…

This study related selected preadmission data obtained on first year freshman students admitted to the University of Southern Mississippi in the fall of 1971-72 academic year to the subsequent grades they received in freshman English courses 100 and 111. The subjects of this study were 71 first year freshman students at the University selected by…

A major administrative and research need is the explicit integration of behavioral educational objectives, such as student body quality or student academic success, with present college costing and planning models. With this objective in mind, this study develops a freshman admissions planning model which classifies high school graduates by…

A survey of 13 dog-guide schools found that, in the majority of schools, between 91% and 100% of graduates received orientation and mobility (O&M) training before obtaining a dog guide. Eight schools require O&M for admittance, and 10 schools solicit recommendations from O&M specialists before admitting an applicant. (CR)

Results indicate that students granted admission variances at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in 1970-71 achieved much success, attributed to the flexible curriculum at the school. (PG)

This report summarizes the training workshop on the Evaluation of Asian Educational Credentials recommendations and findings. This report is an attempt to extract from the total workshop those points that are most relevant to the problem of evaluating credentials from India, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan. For each of the four countries the…

This is the report from the workshop for the admission and placement of students from the Pacific-Asia Area. The basic purpose of this workshop was to bring together a group of experienced admissions officers and resource persons with expertise in the particular countries to be covered, in order to study, in some depth, foreign educational systems…

College Entrance Examination Board Scholastic Aptitude Test decile scores for 1106 university freshmen compared (annually for 7 years) with student achievement, attrition, and graduation showed positive correlation for some academic majors and correlations only at the extremes for other majors. Two hundred, or 36% of all drop-outs, were apparently…

Determining the knowledge of students entering institutions of higher learning and testing the current progress of students have become difficult problems, and electronic computers are beginning to be used to help solve this problem in the U.S.S.R. This paper cites examples where computers have been used, ranging from processing information about…