This report summarizes the responses to a questionnaire investigating Spring 1974 practices regarding credit awarded by the three levels of state-supported colleges throughout California for satisfactory completion of various College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) examinations. The results indicate that the majority of reporting state colleges…

America's state colleges and regional universities tend to have humble antecedents and ambitious aspirations. Their professors and administrators usually claim no interest in educating professional scholars, doctors, or lawyers, and express no desire to extend their influence beyond the locality or region in which they are located. Despite this…

Enrollment at state universities and land-grant colleges neared the 3 million mark in fall 1973, increasing approximately 3% over fall 1972. Data from 126 of the 130 member institutions of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), representing 357 individual campuses, showed a fall enrollment of 2,911,219…

This document presents the 1970-71 data on the current operating income and expenditures of the state controlled colleges and universities in the state of Virginia. The report presents two basic approaches to analyzing the financial data. One provides the percentage relationship of each function to total educational and general income or…

Reports on a United States District Court's 1983 findings and injunctions regarding segregation and desegregation in the higher education systems of the following States: Arkansas, Georgia, Virginia, Oklahoma, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Kentucky, West Virginia, Missouri, and Delaware. (GC)

This paper traces the history of higher education in New York state and discusses the role of Siena College, a small liberal arts college, in the New York higher education picture. New York has 194 nonprofit private institutions of higher education, 91 public institutions, and 37 for-profit postsecondary education institutions. The State…

This fact sheet provides a brief summary of the University Eligibility Study for the Class of 2003. The study's findings reveal: the eligibility rate for CSU is 28.8%--this is about the same as it was in 1996; the eligibility rate for UC is 14.4%--this is up from 1996, when it was 11.1%; although eligibility rates for African American and Latino…

College and university endowments (N=466) are ranked based on June 1996 market value. Market values for the previous year are also cited. Individual public and private institutions, university systems, and specialty schools are included. (MSE)

This article suggests that previous bans on race-based affirmative action have done serious damage to black enrollments at the U.S.'s "flagship" public universities. In some cases, black enrollments have rebounded somewhat, but enrollments are still far below the level that prevailed prior to the bans. Only Texas, with its 10 Percent…

Reviews the book by John Aubrey Douglass, "The California Idea and American Higher Education," suggesting that it presents a masterful, highly informative, encyclopedic modern history of California's public higher education as it looks at the state government's work toward sponsorship of higher education over the years. (SM)

Since 1998, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) has been instrumental in developing an industry-led approach to online education. In the telecommunications industry, The National Coalition for Telecommunications Education and Learning (NACTEL) began offering customized coursework through its primary educational partner, Pace…