This proposal outlines a three-part capital outlay plan designed to meet specified educational planning principles, to eliminate duplication of control by district and state agencies, and to direct state planning personnel from project justification to planning assistance. The proposal first discusses current problems, including multi-directional…

Cuyahoga Community College's three-phase Institutional Development Program (IDP) was established in January, 1975, to provide systematic and uniform college-wide planning and management procedures. This report first discusses the social forces which led the college to undertake the IDP; identifies the long-range planning, governance, and…

Surveys, interviews, and literature reviews were conducted to provide data upon which the Commission to Study the Mission, Financing, and Governance of the County Colleges in New Jersey could base its recommendations. The following areas were investigated: (1) composition of the trustee boards of the colleges and effective methods of selecting…

The findings of a two-year national study on the problems of U.S. police education are examined in this report of a commission whose members were noted educators, police administrators, and public officials. The following recommendations are among those offered: (1) the majority of federal funds for police higher education should go to programs…

Using data from the 1960-1977 period, this study provides a range of headcount enrollment projections for the Michigan higher education system to the year 2000 by type of institution and by age and sex of student under alternative sets of projection assumptions. The theoretical framework, methodology, and working model developed in this study are…

This report analyzes expenditure patterns that relate costs per full-time equivalent (FTE) student to faculty salaries and benefits, direct instructional support costs and indirect or overhead support costs in Washington postsecondary institutions. Also included is an analysis of overall student/faculty ratios, as well as average salaries and…

In 1971 legislation, the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina provided that a major function of the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina should be to plan for the future of higher education. Major sections of their report on planning cover: (1) a review of higher education in the State of North Carolina; (2)…

This report reviews the major problems facing New York community colleges and presents the recommendations of a Committee of the State University of New York Board of Trustees. The nature and range of problems were clustered in three areas: provision of adequate funding and opportunities for optimum resource utilization; clarification of the roles…

This 1977 annual report describes the status of the following in the state of South Carolina: changes in commission membership; federally funded programs; the South Carolina Postsecondary Education Planning Commission (the 1202 Commission); program approvals; review of graduate programs; medical and health education; two-year postsecondary…

This document contains data and characteristics of the Illinois public community college system and is designed to serve as a basic reference. No analysis of the data is intended in this document. The data are obtained from various surveys and studies conducted by Illinois Community College Board (ICCB). staff and from the colleges' annual MIS…

This report presents the types of financial support (grants, loans, scholarships and student employment) received by students at Maryland colleges and universities during the 1995-96 academic year. Data tables are organized in the following sections: undergraduate students by segment, graduate students by segment, community colleges, public…

This document presents 46 graphs with brief explanatory narratives that analyze trends in the California higher education sector and its environment. The trends examined include: undergraduate and graduate enrollment, student migration in and out of California's higher education sector, college-going rates of California's high school graduates,…

This collection of 11 abstracts presents research findings and data on students and colleges in The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). The documents provide information regarding percentage of community colleges by enrollment category and type of college in 1993, the number and percent of community colleges offering student housing…

Pursuant to Florida educational legislation, this report presents findings of an educational plant survey conducted in March 1995 at Manatee Community College (MCC). The report is designed to aid the formulation of plans for housing the educational program, student population, faculty, administrators, staff, and auxiliary and ancillary services of…

This overview of West Virginia's 16 public colleges and universities focuses on higher education's response to six statutory goals: (1) better preparing students to enter college; (2) improving access to higher education; (3) preparing students to compete in a global economy; (4) focusing resources in areas which offer students the greatest…