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Rodriguez, Olga; Hill, Laura; Payares-Montoya, Daniel – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
These technical appendices are for the report, "English as a Second Language at California's Community Colleges: An Early Examination of AB 705 Reforms." Assembly Bill 705 (AB 705 Irwin) sought to increase successful completion of transfer-level math and English courses by addressing systemic problems in traditional placement policies…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Burn, Helen E.; Mesa, Vilma; Wood, J. Luke; Zamani-Gallaher, Eboni – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2018
Transitioning Learners to Calculus in Community Colleges (TLC3) is a research project aimed at transforming institutional approaches to matriculating underrepresented racial minority (URM) students into and through Calculus II in the nation's 1,023 public associate degree-granting institutions (community colleges). The broader goal of the TLC3…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Department Heads, Mathematics Teachers
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Huber, Bettina J. – ADFL Bulletin, 1994
Findings from the Modern Language Association survey, based on returns from 598 2- and 4-year colleges, are reported. Factors affecting department chairs' conditions of service and perquisites were found to be the presence of a union; levels of instruction offered; number of students; number of languages offered; and faculty size. (Contains two…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, College Environment, College Second Language Programs, Community Colleges
McFerron, J. Richard; And Others – 1991
This monograph summarizes the data from a study designed to evaluate how university deans, department chairmen and faculty view teaching related activities. A methodological problem which limited the analysis of a similar, earlier study prompted the development and execution of this research. An introductory section describes the earlier flawed…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, College English
Hodson, James – 1989
This study sought to rank the quality of psychology departments for graduate study by number of journal articles published in the period 1983 through March, 1988. Referring to the 16 content classifications used in "PsycLit" (the CD-ROM version of "Psychological Abstracts"), as well as a list of 70 leading institutions, a…
Descriptors: Departments, Educational Quality, Faculty Publishing, Graduate School Faculty
Young, Michael E.; And Others – 1982
An analytic system for determining student flow in different subject fields in order to produce departmental workload forecasts is examined. The system consists of three steps. The first step, student flow calculation, computes the relationship of enrollments by major and student level from one year to another. This calculation utilizes historical…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Planning, College Programs, Departments
Langendoen, D. Terence – 1987
An analysis of the status of undergraduate linguistics programs in the United States and Canada includes information about 165 U.S. and 18 Canadian institutions. It presents: alphabetic and state-by-state listings of the institutions offering linguistics education, including the recent history of their participation in the Linguistic Society of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bachelors Degrees, College Curriculum, Departments
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Jolly, Paul; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1991
Results of a recent national survey concerning the financing of medical education in the United States are reported, including information on data sources and characteristics, notes on medical school financial reporting patterns, a breakdown of public and private medical school revenues and expenditures, and medical student financial assistance…
Descriptors: Departments, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Higher Education
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Hansen, W. Lee – Academe, 1985
The average salaries for full professors and new assistant professors in 21 disciplines for 1976-77 and 1984-85 are ranked and the percentage increases in the intervening period are listed and analyzed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Departments
Kentucky Association of School Superintendents. – 1995
This report describes the attitudes of school superintendents in Kentucky about the implementation of school reforms based on the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA); this survey also investigated changes in the perceptions of superintendents over the previous year related to the policies, programs, and practices of KERA. The study was…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Walling, Peter J. – 1984
Based on information reported to the New Jersey State Department of Education in 1983, this report is intended to foster communication on educational uses of computers between and among school districts, county offices, and the department's central office. The first of four sections summarizes data from the department's Survey of Instructional…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Microcomputers
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Pollack, June Salz – Academe, 1986
A growing bulge in the age distribution of California State University faculty and its potential effects on the status and distribution of full-time, part-time, tenured, and probationary appointments in the institution are examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Age, College Faculty, Demography, Departments
Jewell, Laura A.; Frazier, Donald T. – Physiologist, 1987
Reports findings from the 1986 annual survey of activities of university departments of physiology in the United States and Canada. Presents data on faculty numbers and salaries, pre- and postdoctoral trainees, training support, and research grants. Also includes membership statistics of the American Physiological Society. (ML)
Descriptors: College Science, Department Heads, Foreign Countries, Graduate Medical Education
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Middaugh, Michael – Planning for Higher Education, 1996
A national study (n=114 institutions) of faculty teaching productivity is described, focusing on the development of appropriate measures acceptable to faculty, based on departmental data on credit hours taught and costs. Resulting tables display faculty productivity, in credits and students taught, and direct instructional costs by discipline and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Credits, College Faculty, College Instruction
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Wilkerson (Tom) and Associates, Ltd., Louisville, KY. – 1995
This report describes the attitudes of parents, the general public, school principals, and teachers across Kentucky about the implementation of school reforms based on the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). Data were gathered from random telephone surveys in the eight geographic regions of the state for each targeted audience based on…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change, Community Attitudes, Educational Assessment
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