Data on college enrollment (men/women, full-time/part-time, four-year and two-year institutions, public and private), degrees awarded (associate, bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and first professional), and high school graduates (public and private) are projected for each year to 2005. (MSE)

Describes GALILEO (Georgia Library Learning Online), a statewide information system started by the state university library system and being expanded to include private colleges, public libraries, and school libraries. Electronic information resources range from full text or bibliographic data of academic journals to census data and state…

Collection of articles, examines issues related to African Americans in higher education. Topics include black faculty; educational finance; law schools; black colleges; private universities; enrollment trends; high achieving African immigrants; bridging the racial computer gap; black women compared to black men and to white women in doctoral…

"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This November 12, 2004 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "The Transcendent Role of Chaplains" (Schaper, Donna); (2) "Offbeat Director's Sophistication Isn't…

The State of Washington has set an enrollment goal of reaching the 70th percentile participation rate for upper-division and graduate/professional enrollments by 2020 with lower-division growth maintaining the current participation rate. From 1997-2010, the enrollment plan proposes to increase enrollments at the main campuses to physical capacity,…

In one of a series of hearings held in communities around the nation on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education met to hear testimony from administrators in higher education and others in the state of Indiana. A particular concern of the 15 witnesses appearing at this hearing was student…

Based upon data collected annually by the American Association of Junior Colleges (AAJC), this directory provides information on 1,111 community, junior, and technical colleges and two-year branch campuses in the United States and its territories, including 1970 and 1971 data on enrollments and personnel. Following introductory material on the…

The estimated percentage of full-time undergraduates who received aid in fall 1984 is reported, along with the total amount they received, the distribution of aided students by families' income level, and the composition of aid packages. Information is also provided on student debt, the use of special tuition plans, and how student employment…

A Ford Foundation program funded individual institutional programs focusing on higher education access and success for the inner-city poor, including remediation of basic skills, academic counseling and diagnosis of learning problems, and information services to help individuals make program choices. Three institutional programs are reported. In…

The Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University System's annual report and statistical supplement provide data on a variety of issues. The annual report addresses the following areas: increasing enrollments and increasing campus needs; equal educational opportunity; special studies (e.g., college preparation); changes in Board and staff…

This analysis of how college affects students is based on the largest nationwide study of student development ever undertaken, a ten-year effort by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program of the American Council on Education and the University of California at Los Angeles. Using longitudinal data from over 200,000 students and 300…

The retrenchment experiences of a variety of institutions--large and small, public and private--are described and evaluated using an extensive spectrum of case studies sponsored by the Southern Regional Education Board. Part One discusses challenges of retrenchment (James R. Mingle) and strategies for the 1980s (David W. Breneman). Part Two,…

The total cost to Texas institutions of higher education of implementing and administering federally mandated social regulations are compared to the basic operating and financial characteristics of these institutions. A database of the basic characteristics of Texas, which includes student and faculty data as well as operating and financial data,…

Data on 1980 engineering and technology degree graduates are presented for six categories of students. Tables appear for each of the following: women, foreign nationals, blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, and Asian/Pacific groups. Data are presented for four degree levels in engineering, four in engineering technology, and four in industrial…

Data on 1980 engineering and technology degree graduates are presented by curriculum and accreditation status. Each of 29 different engineering or technology curricula groups is listed in order, giving the schools offering such programs, number of degrees awarded at each level, and the number received by six special categories of students; i.e.,…