Prepared by the American Medical Association, this 1969-70 directory and accompanying Spring 1970 supplement list accredited allied medical educational programs by city in the 50 states, District of Columbia, Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, and Japan. Each listing contains the location, institution, type of educational program, affiliation, director(s),…

An Admissions Machine is defined as a sub-set of procedures in a Career Machine which an applicant and an admissions officer can use collaboratively in an interactive interrogation and report system when the applicant expects fair treatment from the admissions officer and the admissions officer trusts the judgment of the applicant concerning the…

The relationships between grades of Hofstra students at the end of the freshman year and such predictor variables as high school standing and scores on the SAT are considered. Data are also presented on the overall performance of the class and on the relationship between performance of students who stayed at Hofstra and those who dropped out.…

In March 1973, in the case of DeFunis vs. Odegaard, the Supreme Court of the State of Washington held constitutional procedures established by the University of Washington Law School to grant preferred admission to disadvantaged racial and ethnic minority applicants. The United States Supreme Court agreed to review the decision. This paper…

This document provides an annotation of the articulation agreement between the State Universities and the Public Community Junior Colleges of Florida. Sections cover: general education, definition of associate of arts degree, responsibility for general education requirements, preprofessional course responsibility, admission to upper division…

This paper explores some of the implications of Justice William O. Douglas's dissenting opinion in "DeFunis v. Odeggard" for the selection, education, and licensing of educational personnel. Douglas's argument for "cultural neutrality" in law-education selection instruments turns on his argument for racially neutral tests. That is, Douglas's…

This document presents information concerning New England colleges and universities that have been authorized by its state government to grant academic degrees at either the associate, bachelor, master, doctoral, or professional level. Information covers number of student body by sex, accreditation, level of offering and type of program, summer…

Today's requirements for college admission and levels of performance and their effects on curriculum design and standards, teacher attitudes, and student attitudes are discussed, particularly as they relate to the community college. The open-door policy of the community college, students' attitudes concerning their responsibilities as students and…

The data for this paper are taken mainly from a longitudinal study of the college graduating class of 1961. Based on a subsample of earlier respondents, this study was primarily concerned with the graduates' evaluation of his college, his opinions on the goals of higher education in general, his opinions on the financing of higher education, and…

The Servicemen's Opportunity College (SOC) project seeks to identify and designate an extensive network of colleges and universities that are jointly and separately seeking to make postsecondary education available to men and women in military service in ways consistent with their service assignments. Colleges and universities genuinely responsive…

The available objective evidence suggests that the accuracy of predicting which students will succeed in a particular graduate school is often no better than modest, especially if such predictions are based only upon a test or a grade record. Taken together these two types of predictors do a reasonably good job, considering the restricted range of…

This article presents a summary of some research on a statistical approach to identifying potentially successful and dropout students in a college population. The technique utilized is Multiple Discriminant Analysis (MDA). MDA eliminates the shortcomings of regression-correlation and uses only quantifiable information. The 2 variables that proved…

Concerned with those students in Connecticut who had completed eighth grate and sought to be admitted to regional vocational-technical schools, this study had as its objectives to: (1) determine the general characteristics of students being served by Regional Vocational Technical Schools in the State, and (2) determine to what extent the schools…

The effectiveness and equity of applying uniform selection standards to both black and white Air Force enlistees was investigated by regression analyses. For both racial groups, the relationship between the Air Force selection test (Airman Qualifying Examination) as the predictor and a measure of job knowledge (Specialty Knowledge Test as the…

This project examines the suitability of the General Examinations of the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) as an alternative battery to the Aptitude Test of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) for the admission of vocational education teachers to master's level study of vocational education. The CLEP battery and the College Entrance…