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Gardner, John A. – 1987
Factors affecting access to postsecondary education for college-age youth were studied, with emphasis on personal characteristics and institutional policies that influence educational aspirations and postsecondary enrollments. Data were primarily derived from two databases: the High School and Beyond Study and the National Longitudinal Study of…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Attendance, College Bound Students, Enrollment Influences
Rajasekhara, Koosappa – 1986
The goals and aspirations of 35,950 students who had attended Maryland community colleges were surveyed 18 months after college entry. For first-time credit students who entered college during fall 1982, comparisons were made of two groups who returned usable responses to mailed questionnaires. The first group consisted of 5,133 students who were…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Parnes, Herbert S.; And Others – 1969
This report, the first of a six-part, intensive longitudinal study, examines the relationships between selected demographic, attitudinal, and educational characteristics of male youth in the United States and their labor market experience and occupational aspirations. The data are drawn from interviews conducted during October-December 1966, with…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Blacks, Career Choice
Ramon, Gilberto – 1985
This monograph addresses the need for improved counseling services for Hispanic students in order to promote their interest in higher education, prepare them for the task of getting admitted, and help them find financial aid. This is discussed as a functional process for which school counseling personnel have primary responsibility, and it is…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, College Admission, College Bound Students
Kidwell, Clara Sue – 1986
There are no quick and easy tips to motivating American Indian students into graduate education. The decision to make a commitment of time and money to graduate training, particularly at the doctoral level, and the ability to succeed in such a program, is affected by a number of factors: (1) parental and peer encouragement; (2) awareness of career…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, American Indian Education, American Indians
Martin, Oneida L. – 1988
For more than three decades, the courts have attempted to resolve the effects of desegregation on educational quality and educational access. This report reviews a recent court ruling on the 26-year-old desegregation case, Mapp versus Board of Education, in relation to emerging demographic patterns in the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Public Schools…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Black Students, Demography
Kanouse, David E.; And Others – 1980
The effects of postsecondary experiences on the development of young people's aspirations, attitudes, and self-conceptions during their first four years after high school were studied. Attention was directed to self-esteem; orientations toward work, family, and community; sex-role attitudes; educational expectations; career aspirations;…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Attitudes, Career Choice, College Attendance
Davis, E. Leta – 1981
An annotated bibliography on the occupational aspirations of minority college students as related to graduate business education is presented with most entries dated 1964 to 1978. Twenty-two selected studies relating to minority aspirations are annotated. In addition, supplementary materials include 51 entries without annotations, 15 nonannotated…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Administrators, Annotated Bibliographies
Newton, Michael D. – 1982
The need for and success of the external undergraduate degree program at the University of Redlands, California, in meeting the educational and occupational goals of a selected population of graduates were assessed. A 21-item questionnaire was administered to alumni of 3 external bachelor degree programs. Sixty-seven respondents had been awarded…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adult Students, Alumni, Bachelors Degrees
Syverson, Peter D. – 1982
Results of the 1980-81 Survey of Earned Doctorates, conducted by the National Research Council, are summarized in tabular, graphic, and narrative form. Research and applied-research degrees are included, but professional degrees are not. Highlights include these: total doctorates awarded were 31,319, 1 percent increase from the previous year; the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Background
Gutierrez, James – 1981
Information was collected from 28 Chicano, 42 Chicana, 36 non-Chicano, and 52 non-Chicana students to identify reasons for Chicana attrition from the University of Southern Colorado. Information was also collected from 14 Chicanas who had already dropped out of college. Most of the data were collected at registration for spring semester, 1980. The…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Attendance, College Students
Burkheimer, Graham J.; Novak, Thomas P. – 1981
A summary is presented of some of the results from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School of 1972, which examined the vocational activities, plans, aspirations, and attitudes of young adults after they leave high school, along with their postsecondary experiences and family and community activities. By October 1979, about one-fourth of…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Bachelors Degrees, College Attendance, College Bound Students
van Es, J. C.; Schneider, Judy B. – 1981
The Logan County (Illinois) Community Resource Development Council, assisted by sociologists and graduate students from the University of Illinois, designed an attitudinal survey which was administered in 1980 to 324 graduating seniors from 3 Logan County high schools to determine why students were leaving the county after graduation and what…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Attitude Measures, College Bound Students, Community Satisfaction

Dunkelberger, John E.; And Others – 1981
Questionnaires which focused on attributes of undergraduate agriculture students and their reasons for enrolling in agriculture were returned by 3,182 students attending land-grant universities in the South, and a profile of Southern agriculture students evolved. During the 1970's, more women and fewer Blacks enrolled in agricultural curricula.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Agricultural Education, Blacks, College Students
Adrian, John L.; And Others – 1981
Data were obtained in 1977 via mail questionnaires sent to students at all 1890 and 1860 Land Grant Universities in the South with programs in agriculture, to examine selected background characteristics and subjective perspectives of agricultural economics majors, compared with majors in production sciences and all agriculture curricula. The…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Agricultural Education, College Students, Comparative Analysis