Fall 1981 statistical data on the age distribution of students at New York public and private colleges and universities are presented, based on the 1981-1982 HEDS/Higher Education General Information Survey form NYSED-2.6, "Enrollment by Level, Age Cohort and Sex, Fall 1981." Data are provided for full- and part-time undergraduate…

Data on the status of women students in Connecticut institutions of higher education are examined. Trends include the following: as of fall 1980, there were 84,838 women enrolled in Connecticut collegiate institutions, representing 53 percent of total enrollment; women were in the majority at the undergraduate and graduate levels and comprised 34…

Information on employees in Connecticut's 22 public institutions of higher education in fall 1981 is presented. Comparisons are made to employment patterns as of fall 1979. Findings include the following: full-time employment in Connecticut public institutions was down 1.4 percent in fall 1981 from 2 years earlier; the number of full-time minority…

Data are presented on salaries, tenure, and fringe benefits of full-time instructional faculty at Pennsylvania colleges and universities for the 1981-1982 school year, and brief narrative descriptions of trends are included. Findings for the different sectors include the following: the mean salaries of full-time instructional faculty for selected…

In order to determine the academic success rate of New Jersey community college transfer students at receiving senior institutions in New Jersey, statewide transfer data were examined for 1,523 full-time transfer juniors in the 1974-75 school year. Transfer students earned a grade point average (GPA) of 2.8 prior to transfer, compared with 2.9 for…

The 1976 High School Eligibility Study is the fourth in a continuing series of studies performed to provide data to the University of California and the California State University and Colleges so they can recalibrate their admission standards for first-time freshman students under the guidelines established under the Master Plan for Higher…

Statistical data on U.S. and Canadian college faculty contracts and bargaining agents are presented. Within each state, information is presented for selected colleges on: the bargaining agent, unit size, the year current agent was elected, year the initial contract was signed, 2-year or 4-year college status, number of campuses, contract…

Statistical data and a narrative description of enrollment in Arkansas colleges and universities for the 1979-1980 academic year and previous years are presented. Information is presented on course auditing, nonstandard instruction, and credit-awarding activities in the state and independent colleges and universities. The annual student semester…

A survey of the 51 Illinois public community colleges was conducted during February 1980, to assess the status of institutional research (IR) at the colleges and to determine how that status had changed since the completion of similar surveys in 1973 and 1976. Major findings indicated that while 67% of the colleges had offices of institutional…

Presented are the number of degrees granted by academic field and sex for public and private institutions. One tables presents an aggregation of the 50 states and the District of Columbia; a second table is a regional aggregation of the 14 states in the south (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North…

The total number of associate, bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and first-professional degrees conferred during the 1975-76 fiscal year by 48 higher education institutions is summarized. Undergraduate and graduate seminaries are included among the institutions. Data are also given in tabular form for academic major within each institution. (MSE)

Three basic questions set the direction and scope of this study: (1) What factors precipitated the development and passage of Senate Joint Resolution No. 106 that directed the State Council of Higher Education to conduct a tenure-faculty workload survey among the state-supported institutions of higher education? (2) What are the perceptions of…

This report reflects postgraduation activities of college students who graduated in Pennsylvania in 1975. While the report does not attempt to say what the relationship between higher education and postgraduation occupations should be, it does clarify what many of these relationships actually are by indicating the demand for and supply of…

The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education and the Postsecondary Planning Commission conducted this study of the library resources and needs of South Carolina postsecondary institutions as part of its goal to improve the quality of South Carolina state higher education programs. Questionnaires sent to college libraries were designed to test…

Results of a study relating Washington State's college students' unmet financial aid needs to sector and student characteristics such as sex, age, dependency status, and family income and contribution are outlined and discussed. (MSE)