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Download full textSchwalb, Susan J.; Sedlacek, William E. – 1988
The University New Student Census (UNSC) for 1988 was completed by 546 freshmen entering the University of Maryland, College Park. Of the students sampled, 55% were male and 45% female. The majority of students polled were white (76%), 12% were Black, 10% Asian, 2% Hispanic, 0.2% American Indian/Native Alaskan, and 0.6% other. Student attitudes…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students, College Freshmen
Peer reviewedFadale, LaVerna M.; Winter, Gene M. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1991
Reports findings from a study of campus-based child care services provided by 27 State University of New York community colleges for student-parents. Survey data from 501 student-parents at 24 colleges confirmed a strong positive relationship between campus-based child care and student-parent academic success, enrollment, and persistence. (DMM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges
Tierney, Michael L. – 1979
Questions are examined concerning the effectiveness and efficiency of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant financial aid program in providing equality of choice between public and private institutions. The research question is: given the initial preferences for either public or private institutions, what is the probability that a student will…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Choice, College Students, Conference Reports
Aberman, Hugh M. – 1975
A survey of the l970 class of Shippensburg State College in 1974 identified four distinct groups from the 530 survey respondents: (1) students currently in the senior year and graduating on time; (2) students who finished college in less than the usual four years; (3) students who voluntarily withdrew from college with satisfactory average grades…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Fiedler, Judith – 1978
Interviews with 814 applicants for admission to the University of Washington who were not offered admission, or who did not enroll, were conducted during the summer and autumn of 1978. The respondents, whether or not they met admission criteria, were highly similar in characteristics of background, career aspiration, and alternative educational…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, College Bound Students, Decision Making
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1979
A major longitudinal study of California community college students involved following a sample of 35,000 students for three and one-half years. Near the end of the study, enrollment and performance data for students who transferred to the University of California and the California State University and Colleges were collated through 1978. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Articulation (Education), College Admission
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1979
The status of desegregation in Maryland public postsecondary institutions is assessed in this midyear report for 1979. Chapter One discusses desegregation of the full-time work force of the state's higher education institutions. The data indicate that there exists a low proportion of black faculty in predominantly white schools. A faculty and…
Descriptors: Blacks, College Desegregation, College Faculty, College Students
