Rural schools in the western region states of California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada are facing enormous challenges due to major shifts in the demographics of the region. Rapid growth in student enrollment, particularly of minority and limited English proficient students, the increasing rate of rural poverty and homelessness, and a projected…

An important element of school counseling is providing assessments on the collective future needs and activities of a graduating school class. The College Attendance Rate (CAR) is defined here as the proportion of seniors graduating from a given high school, during a given year, that will enroll full-time at an academic college sometime during the…

This report contains selected statistics on enrollments, units of average daily attendance (ADA), and finances for the California community college districts. It provides a general (narrative) summary and tables giving selected data per ADA and rankings by district. Part I presents fall 1988 headcount enrollments by college. Part II provides data…

Recent high school graduates are one of Thomas Nelson Community College's (TNCC's) most important assets. From 1983 to 1985, the number and rate of enrollment of recent high school graduates changed dramatically. The total number of graduates in the service area declined 15.5%, from 4,540 in 1983 to 3,835 in 1985; while the number of service area…

This four-part presentation examines the theory and practice of enrollment management at Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ). First, Charles C. Spence offers a brief description of FCCJ and reviews some of the problems facing the college when he assumed the presidency in 1985, including a significant enrollment decline and serious…

During the first year of operation under the Act, major problems encountered focused on: (1) defining the terms "full time equivalent" (FTE) student for purposes of per capita financial support to approved institutions; (2) the planning, conduct, and analyses of feasibility studies to better specify the constituent population and their…

This statistical report is distilled from data reported over four school years in the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) spring statistics. It provides a demographic summary of minorities in NAIS member schools, examining recent trends in minority enrollment and exploring the most recent data on the relative proportion of financial…

The 1976 Master Plan for Ohio has been shaped by the new challenges and new conditions of declining growth and expansion, changing enrollment patterns, demands for higher education from groups not previously served, the need for and advent of new programs and innovative forms of instruction, and the changing requirements of society itself. The…

These two reports from the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) present population projections for the MCCCD service area and enrollment projections for the district and its seven individual colleges. The first report reviews enrollment increases over the past decade and presents fall 1980 figures as a background for examining county…

A narrative summary of program accomplishments, tabular data, and program guidelines comprise the annual report of the Johnson-O'Malley Indian Education Program (JOM) in eastern Oklahoma, which provides academic programs and educational support monies for eligible Indian students. Expenditures under the 1979-80 contract, totalling $2,944,733.05…

Information about the mature student in tertiary institutions in Australia was obtained in a 1976 survey. Responses from 98 institutions provided information on whether there were special entry schemes or other methods of entry for mature aged applicants, the selection procedures, the number of mature aged entrants in 1976, and the courses in…

In order to determine the relationship between those courses students wished to take and those in which they actually enrolled, students were asked to indicate their course preference during fall 1977 registration. For each day of the registration process, the desired classes were compared with the number of students enrolled in each class.…

Patterns of enrollment at major U.S. research universities from 1965 to 1977 are examined in terms of headcounts, full-time equivalent students, and full-time and part-time students by type of institutional control, by sex, and by level of study. Data are presented for two groups of research universities: (1) the 51 leading universities in terms…

A study was conducted by the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) to determine VCCS first-time enrollment projections for recent high school graduates in the face of estimated decreases in the number of high school graduates from 1980 through 1985. The projections were determined by an analysis of Virginia Department of Education graduation…

The ninth annual report on optimal school size for New Mexico's Albuquerque Public Schools presents enrollment and cost figures for the district's elementary, middle, and high schools and for its special education programs. From these data are drawn the minimum school size for economic operation and the maximum school size for effective learning…