The high percentage of female undergraduate students at predominantly black colleges and universities makes it difficult for many Division I institutions to meet the male/female proportionality standards for athletics programs. Concentration of African-American athletes in just a few sports is also a factor. Some institutions are dropping sports…

The topic of this newsletter is Student Transitions Project Research Question #2: What is the nature and distribution of the transition of students from the kindergarten to Grade 12 (K-12) education system into B.C. public post-secondary institutions over a multi-year period? (For secondary school graduates of 2001/02 to 2003/04 and post-secondary…

Women computer science students at the College of Staten Island (CSI) in New York have a substantially higher pass rate than their male classmates; however, their enrollment and retention rates are low. During the last year and a half women on the computer science faculty at CSI developed two projects designed to increase the enrollment and…

This study examined admission rates of student-athletes and students in general at DePauw University (Indiana) over a three-year period. Data on admissions from 1994 through 1996 were reviewed, and it was found that 47 percent of applicants identified themselves as student-athletes and that 82 percent of all applicants were accepted. The results…

This report provides early estimates of key fall 1991 enrollment statistics as well as academic year 1990-91 completions statistics for all postsecondary institutions in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. The study employed a survey which was part of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The survey, conducted by…

The annual Survey of Enrollments and Degrees includes 820 degree-granting physics and astronomy departments, 31 of which grant both physics and astronomy degrees. Data are presented on the following areas: physics degrees awarded by academic year, 1968-78; number of institutions by highest physics degree offered, 1974-79; physics enrollments and…

An advanced enrollment questionnaire was sent to 2,337 US institutions in 1966 as part of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), the eighth in USOE's survey series on students enrolled for advanced degrees. Students were classified into 3 levels of study: first year (completed less than 1 full year of required study for an…

Higher education now faces problems which inhibit it from planning major new programs for the future. The two most serious problems are crises in funding aggravated by dwindling enrollments and lack of continuity in leadership. Teacher education programs are often spared from being cut--some have been expanded--because they are cheap to run, but…

The shortage of PhDs that characterized the past 30 years is over and probably won't be experienced again. Universities which used to employ 50% of the new PhDs, now employ 35-40%, and by the end of this decade, only 25% or less of the new doctorates will enter college teaching. The enrollment rate which yearly increased 10% in the sixties, will…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the reports of three committees of the Central Council for Education. The 21st Committee reports that school education in Japan has expanded in balance with the level of schooling of parents and society at large, in proportion to the economy, and within the per capita…

This document is an English-language abstract (Approximately 1,500 words) of statistical data on higher education institutions for the winter semester of the 1966-67 academic year with comparative data of earlier years. The first group of tables gives a comparative review of students enrolled and teaching staff for the years 1938/39 and from…

Analysis of the income distribution of students enrolled in New Jersey's colleges and universities was structured to yield results that would help develop policy recommendations, especially in the areas of access and equity. Major findings include: (1) New Jersey families are more affluent than families in the U.S. in general, but families with…

The rate of growth in higher education enrollment has slowed in the 1970's, largely because the percentage of the population aged 18 to 22 is receding from the unprecedented high levels of the 1960's. Other reasons revolve around the changing social and economic aspirations of students and how they are served or not served by the program offerings…

The Graduate Record Examinations Board and the Council of Graduate Schools conducts an annual survey of the enrollments of the Council's member institutions. The tables show (1) total graduate school enrollment by type of institution; (2) first-time enrollment by type of institution; (3) number of applications for graduate study; (4) number of…

Descriptive statistics on applicants to the 1976-77 freshman classes of U.S. medical schools are presented which show a slight decline compared to the early 1970s, but an increase in women and minorities. Included are data on size of hometown, marital status, country of citizenship, and undergraduate degree level. (Author/LBH)