This article calls into question the view that educational expansion has a causal effect on class-based inequalities of educational opportunity. This view, the impetus for many studies, is flawed because the empirical literature is hampered by poor measures of expansion and because it rests on simplistic understandings of the causal structure that…

The nation's most selective colleges are often the centerpiece of the discussion surrounding college choice, and trends in college selectivity are relayed through stories of plunging admission rates at a few high-profile postsecondary institutions and anecdotes of model high school students unable to secure seats at these colleges. Such stories…

Demand for university education has increased due to the recent innovations of universal, free and compulsory education at the basic and senior secondary education level. Education has been expanding very rapidly at all levels in Nigeria. However, there are serious problems related to quality, equity, unavailable human and material resources and…

Private higher education literature recognizes large public-private differentiation in terms of field of study. Relative to public counterparts, private universities tend to offer their services in fields that require low initial investments and present at least relatively attractive internal private rates of return. Thus, the main objective of…

As the State University of New York has become more complex in response to the educational needs of its constituency, it has developed curricular offerings of a widely expanded scope and variety. This document has as its purpose to show enrollment in academic programs at each of the campuses for fall 1968 through fall 1971. The report is in two…

The objectives of the Working Party at the 2nd International Conference on Higher Education were to discuss and evaluate the various organizational structures used to cope with the explosion in student enrollment in mass higher education. (PG)

Examined the responses of 107 U.S. colleges and universities to requests for enrollment information to identify the schools that fulfill demand in a timely and effective manner. Explains what makes these schools successful. Most schools had a working Web site, but most did not contact the person making the request by telephone after the initial…

Higher Education is charged by its critics with increased irrelevance and continuing inflexibility. Defenders of tradition, on the other hand, often see the university as a shambles of innovation and disorder. The perspective offered by the graphic tables in this document of enrollment trends and patterns over several decades offers some middle…

This document, published annually, reports general information as well as detailed data concerning both the public and the private segments of the higher education system of Florida. Various tables provide breakdowns of total, graduate, and first-time-in-college enrollment by State and county for each of the four types of schools (public…

Discusses supply and demand projections for Ph.D.'s. (Editor/PG)

Any full-scale attempt to measure the impact of federal student finacial aid on student enrollment behavior must also account for indirect effects on institutional behavior. This study argues that the potential effects of aid on supply and on institutions is substantial. Includes two tables, seven notes, and eight references. (MLH)

This document summarizes the findings of a survey of the vocational offerings in Montana secondary schools, using data compiled from the 1987-88 fall reports submitted by local school districts to the Montana Office of Public Instruction. Total vocational enrollment was listed as 41,746. (Students enrolled in more than one vocational class were…

This document presents the enrollment figures for the institutions of higher education in Florida in the fall of 1971. The data are arranged in several categories: (1) statewide enrollment; (2) enrollment by institutions; (3) first time in college enrollment; (4) graduate student enrollment; and (4) trends and new developments in Florida higher…