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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1990
The report provides information on the possible impact of revised eligibility requirements on the volume of supplemental loans for students (SLS). These are market-rate loans made to postsecondary students in addition to or in lieu of other financial aid, such as Stafford loans (formerly called guaranteed student loans) and Pell grants. The data…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Eligibility, Federal Legislation
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1991
This report presents national normative data on the major trends and characteristics of 1.6 million students attending American colleges and universities as first-time, full-time freshmen. The normative data are reported separately for men and for women and for 35 different institutional groupings. Among the findings are the following: (1) student…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Freshmen, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Johnson County Community Coll., Overland Park, KS. Office of Institutional Research. – 1987
In 1987, a study was conducted by Johnson County Community College (Kansas) in cooperation with local public school districts to determine the career and educational interests of the county's public high school students. Surveys were administered in class to 11,477 freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, requesting information on high school…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, Enrollment Influences, Females
Dey, Eric L.; And Others – 1992
This report provides a normative profile of the American college freshman population for the fall of 1992 obtained from a national survey of 213,630 students from 404 of the nation's two- and four-year colleges and universities. The normative data presented are reported separately for men and women. The major stratifying factors are institutional…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Freshmen, Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1992
This report presents survey data (from 216,362 students at 403 higher education institutions) on the characteristics of students attending American colleges and universities as first-time, full-time freshmen. The normative data presented are reported separately for men and for women and for 35 different groupings of institutions. The major…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Freshmen, Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1990
This report presents survey data (from 194,182 students at 382 higher education institutions) on the characteristics of students attending American colleges and universities as first-time, full-time freshmen. The normative data presented are reported separately for men and for women and for 35 different groupings of institutions. The major…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Freshmen, Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Dey, Eric L.; And Others – 1991
This report summarizes trends identified in 25 years of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program's annual surveys of college freshmen. It documents an array of demographic, attitudinal, and social changes involving students entering the nation's colleges since the survey's inception in 1966. Major findings from this report point to…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
