Various determinants have been found to explain the donor status and giving levels of college alumni. Limited research exists on what motivates college alumni to give repeated donations to a higher education institution. The purpose of this study was to determine if commitment and trust significantly related to higher education institutions…

Many Americans report chronic and disabling pain, even in the absence of identifiable clinical disorders. We first examine the prevalence of pain in the older U.S. population using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Among 50-59 year females, for example, pain rates ranged from 26 percent for college graduates to 55 percent for those without a…

In the prediction of 1964 income for a national sample of 1961 college graduates, there were significant gender effects, and marital status interactions for women but not for men. Income for both was positively influenced by graduate educational attainment, occupational status, years of work experience, age, hours worked weekly, college…

The perceived relationship between marriage and achievement among 167 women graduates (ages 45-65) of the University of Michigan was analyzed. Women believed they had high potential for achievement because of perceived spousal commitment to shared family goals and domestic chores, whereas women with less or no support reported achievement was…

An examination was made of the antecedents to singlehood for black women, based upon questionnaire and interview data from a larger study of 56 black women who graduated from predominantly white colleges in a northeastern city between 1968 and 1970. During the past few decades, researchers have found that a high percentage of educated black women…

A study attempted to discover the significance of the early post-graduate career pattern on later career outcomes for women at varying points in their life course. Data were from a national sample of United States graduates of four-year colleges and universities at five points in time from their graduation in spring, 1961 until 7 years later.…

The purposes of this study were (1) to identify the concerns about teaching expressed in their early years of teaching by graduates of the early childhood education (ECE) program at Concordia Teachers College (CTC), a church-related teacher education institution, and (2) to determine the relationship between teaching concerns and the variables of…

This document represents a follow-up study of college seniors who graduated in the spring of 1972. The first stage of the research dealt with the career related aspirations, expectations, and apprehensions of 1,858 American college seniors of the class of 1972. This document, which is the second stage of the study, is based on data obtained from…

Data on the undergraduate and subsequent life experiences of the 1967 and 1977 graduating classes of 48 women's colleges were studied. For the nearly 5,000 graduates, attention was directed to: undergraduate fields of concentration and extracurricular activity, graduate study, work status, family status, and current involvement in the community.…

As part of a continuing student flow study in Hawaii community colleges, the persistence of 9,171 fall 1974 entering students after six semesters was analyzed to ascertain the degree to which they persisted at campuses other than the one of entry. Characteristics studied included sex, age, high school background, marital status, entry status,…

Motivation for returning to higher education was assessed for 117 adult female college graduates with children and 118 students who had withdrawn before graduation. Motivation was found related to previous education, age, marital status, life cycle stage, employment satisfaction, family support. Interrupters and persisters were generally similar;…

Data are given on fall enrollments in Canadian universities for the 1978-79 academic year and on degrees, diplomas, and certificates awarded during the 1978 calendar year. Enrollment figures include summary, full-time, part-time, bachelor, first-professional, master, doctoral, and summer enrollments, presented by such variables as province,…

A summary is presented of some of the results from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School of 1972, which examined the vocational activities, plans, aspirations, and attitudes of young adults after they leave high school, along with their postsecondary experiences and family and community activities. By October 1979, about one-fourth of…

A mail survey of the 326 May and August, 1978, Essex Community College (ECC) graduates was conducted from November, 1978, to February, 1979, to collect demographic data, determine employment and educational status and anticipated needs for future services, and solicit evaluations of personnel service programs and the quality of academic…