Best practice in curriculum development and implementation requires that discipline-based standards or requirements embody both curricular and programme scopes and sequences. Ensuring these are present and aligned in course/programme content, activities and assessments to support student success requires formalised and systematised review and…

How will higher education fare under a President Donald Trump? According to this author, the campaign's misogyny shouldn't sit well with a student body that is now majority female, its disavowal of climate changes won't impress research universities, and the xenophobia won't help economies and cultures bolstered by foreign enrollment. The number…

Increasing the participation of minority groups at public colleges and universities is a longstanding goal of the Board of Governors for Higher Education, as first outlined in its 1983 "Strategic Plan to Ensure Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Connecticut Public Higher Education". The minority groups defined by the plan are:…

This paper presents the degrees conferred by Connecticut institutions of higher education in 2007-08. Connecticut colleges and universities awarded 36,634 degrees in 2007-08 (up 1.6% over 2006-07), the state's seventh consecutive year of growth and a 28 percent increase since 1998. Once again, the top five degree-producing disciplines were…

Enrollment statistics for the state of Connecticut are presented. Highlights indicate: (1) Total enrollment in all colleges and universities in the state increased by 7.7 percent in fall 1974 over fall 1973, the largest percentage increase since 1970. (2) This increase in total enrollment resulted almost entirely from an increase in the number of…

Collective bargaining by faculty is a new and rapidly growing phenomenon in American higher education. Results of faculty collective bargaining in institutions of American higher education thus far have been mixed. A key contextual factor is the degree of adversary relationship that exists between the faculty and the administration. In studying…

Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York face giant deficits in their state budgets. The financial impact of the 1986 federal tax reform law was underestimated by colleges and income estimates were overly optimistic for 1988 and 1989. Unpopular, new taxes are seen as the way to solve the budget crunch. (MLW)

This report is the 8th annual survey of college enrollments in Connecticut as prepared by the Commission for Higher Education. Highlights indicate: (1) After decreasing rates of growth in total enrollment for the years 1970, 1971, and 1972, the percentage increase in fall 1973 over fall 1972 rose to 3.7%. (2) In the independent colleges, fulltime…

The New England Regional Student Program provides major savings to both the participating student and the New England state government. Students qualifying for study under the program receive admissions preference among out-of-state applicants and are charged only the equivalent of the in-state tuition fees. These are the arrangements agreed to by…

This literature review and historical overview of academic collective bargaining in American higher education, with special emphasis on public higher education in Connecticut, is part of a Ph.D. dissertation entitled "A Development, Comparison, and Contrast of Selected Faculty Administration Consensuses Regarding Collective Bargaining…

The New England Regional Student Program, while not providing direct scholarships, does result in major savings to both the participating student and the New England state governments. Students qualifying for study under the program receive admissions preference among out-of-state applicants and are charged only the equivalent of the in-state…

Student mobility in Connecticut has been great, and the number of students moving from one institution to another in 1975 was well over 7,000. The guidebook for students and their counselors is intended to enable a student to develop a plan of study that may include courses at more than one institution. Included are policy profiles for two- and…

Raising tuition is one solution to reduced revenue at public colleges and universities. Nonresidents, aliens, or persons who have only recently established residency in the state bear a larger share of the financial burden. Constitutional pitfalls in this policy are reviewed, and the validity of sex-based tuition rules is examined. (MLW)

A regional student enrollment statistical report for the 1977-1978 academic year is provided for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Areas covered in the report are: the Non-Contract Program; state participation; students attending New England two-year colleges and institutes; students attending New England…

Enrollment statistics for the 1976-1977 academic year in the New England Regional Student Program are presented. At both undergraduate and graduate levels, the regional program allows eligible students to receive preference in admission among out-of-state applicants in participating states, and to be charged only the in-state tuition upon…