This module is one in a series of thirteen specifically designed to help vocational educators develop the skills needed to function as resource persons to learners enrolled in field-centered comptency-based teacher preparation programs. (These learners are persons with appropriate occupational experience and competence who are being prepared as…

Data on earned degrees conferred in the United States are presented. The data cover the period July 1, 1976 through June 30, 1977 and were collected from the survey instrument, "Degrees and Other Formal Awards Conferred," from the 12th annual Higher Education General Information Survey. Data on baccalaureate and higher degrees are…

The Florida Competency-based Articulation Project sought to test the feasibility of using competency as a basis for articulation between and among community colleges and universities. In application, the exit level knowledge and skills required of graduates with AA degrees earned from community colleges and lower division programs in universities…

A questionnaire was administered to 1975 degree recipients at North Carolina State University regarding their post-graduation plans. Those who did not respond to the spring survey and those who responded but reported unemployment were mailed a followup questionnaire. Information is presented for bachelor's degree recipients by department; job…

Virginia's Council of Higher Education quantitatively evaluated the productivity of 436 degree programs in 23 community colleges. Programs were reviewed in terms of the average number of degrees conferred each year and on the basis of full-time equivalent enrollment (FTE). Minimum standards by which programs were evaluated included annual…

The data in this document portrays full-time, part-time, and total headcount enrollment for each campus and for the entire University of Maine for the 5-year period 1971 to 1975. Full-time equivalent student enrollment that converts part-time enrollment to full-time equivalents is also shown. The total number of students enrolled in the University…

This report is based on a questionnaire survey directed in Fall 1970 to foreign language department chairmen at 1,262 United States colleges and universities that grant the B.A. degree. Information was received from 1,034 chairmen at 822 different institutions. Detailed information from 786 institutions was supplemented by data taken from the…

An inventory lists the certificate, associate, baccalaureate, master's specialist, and doctor's degrees offered in the 28 public and 37 independent postsecondary institutions in Indiana. The institutions offering programs, and the program level, are listed according to disciplines and specializations within the disciplines. All program…

The effects of financial aid on persistence to Bachelor's degree were studied using data from the national longitudinal Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey for 1989-90 freshmen. The subsample of 3,188 students were enrolled full-time in four-year institutions; persistence was defined as attainment of the Bachelor's degree from the institution…

This report provides 17 tables which summarize total associate, baccalaureate, master's, specialist's, doctoral, and first-professional degrees, and other formal awarded conferred between July 1, 1995 and June 30, 1996 by Kentucky institutions of higher education. These institutions include state-supported universities and community colleges,…

This Policy and Procedures Manual was prepared by the Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI) Technical Task Force to assist college and university administrators, faculty members, and other staff participating in the IAI. The preface contains background information on the IAI, whose goal is to facilitate inter-institutional transfer, and its…

This paper discusses degree attainment statistics and their analyses, particularly when applying time censors to the equation. The author describes at the High School and Beyond Sophomore Cohort Longitudinal Study, which followed a high school graduating class of 1982, from the time of its graduation until 1993, when most of the cohort was 29 or…

This study used publicly available information to identify institutional controllable variables that influence graduation rate and to group colleges using these factors. The dependent variable for the correlation analysis was the six-year graduation rate of the fall 1993 freshman cohort (as reported by US News and World Report) at more than 1,400…

The directory lists and describes university programs for teachers of English to speakers of other Languages (TESOL) at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the United States and Canada. Lists are presented by country, and within country, alphabetically by the name of the offering institution. There are 194 U.S. institutions listed, offering…

Counseling pupils of high school age about foreign language programs fitted to their needs and abilities is somewhat more difficult than in the past, both because the objectives are different and because a thoroughgoing revision of language instruction is taking place at all levels of the school system. Guidance workers, teachers, principals, and…