The tables in this report summarize each state's revenues and expenditures for 1977. Information presented for each state includes per capita amounts of financial items; relation of finances to personal income; revenue by source; expenditure by character and object and by type and function; intergovernmental expenditure by type of receiving…

A policy-focus Delphi study was conducted to identify the barriers which prohibit handicapped students from entering or completing vocational technical programs in community colleges in Texas and to identify recommendations and tasks relating to the removal of these barriers. A seventy-two member participant group, which included a nineteen member…

This document is primarily intended as a companion piece to Volume I, which is entitled Description of CMTI. The first volume is, essentially, a description of the 1977 Teacher Corpsmember Training Institute, while the second volume is an analysis of the data contained in the first document. Volume Two is divided into four parts. Chapter One is a…

The Iowa-UPSTEP program appears to be a highly successful teacher education program. Current students feel relatively positive about their experiences and post graduates seem to be highly competent teachers. The program is a four-year, clinically-oriented science teacher preparation program providing undergraduates with early opportunities to deal…

Part of a three-volume report on the effects of school finance reform, this volume examines the effects of reform on Michigan school districts' budgets from 1971 to 1976. Econometric models were used. Researchers found a very small "price" effect--an elasticity of -.02. The data provide no evidence that state matching grants stimulate…

This is the fifth edition of a publication (bilingual--English and French) on continuing education offered by publicly supported educational institutions. The statistics contained in this booklet cover enrollments in credit and (predominantly) non-credit courses from July, 1977 through June, 1978 in Canadian establishments of higherlearning. The…

This report is intended to provide statistical data that may be useful to organizations undertaking affirmative action programs with respect to minority groups. Its data are limited to the doctoral level (PhD, EdD, ScD and equivalent) but do not include such professional degrees as MD, DDS, DVM, or JD. It includes data on Blacks, Orientals,…

This report reviews the programs and projects of the Mississippi Association of Developing Colleges (MADC) during the preceding year. The purpose of this study was to determine the needs of the colleges of MADC and whether or not their needs were in compliance with their objectives. The total programs of the seven member colleges were investigated…

Comprised of seven tables, this compilation of community attitude responses for the Western States Small Schools Project includes data derived from Arizona (8 communities); Colorado (16 communities); Nevada (4 communities); and Utah (2 communities). Data are presented in terms of the following categories: administration; general attitude; finance;…

The Mississippi Postsecondary Education Planning Board collects information and data relative to all public and private profit or nonprofit institutions or agencies engaged in education and training in the postsecondary education field in that state. This inventory of programs of study available in the state is designed to aid institutions in…

Tabulated data relevant to several aspects of Central College, a private two-year church-related institution, are compiled in this data book. Content includes statistical data and information on: (1) the purposes, objectives, history, and accreditation and memberships of Central College; (2) full- and part-time faculty, faculty utilization,…

Defense Department contracts to colleges, universities, and other non-profit organizations were for research, development, testing, and evaluation for military projects and for civilian water-resource projects. A list of those with contracts of $500,000 or more is presented. (MLW)

The following trends in psychology, and their implications for the future of the profession, are discussed: (1) changes in the specialization of new doctoral recipients; (2) the decline in quality of doctoral training; (3) women and minority participation; (4) changing employment patterns; and (5) composition of the American Psychological…

The median administrator salaries and percentage changes from the previous year are reported for 88 administrative functions in public and private institutions and in universities, four-year colleges, and two-year colleges. (MSE)

Senators' votes are charted for these issues: reductions in higher education program spending and work-study programs; draft registration; 1984 appropriations; spending ceiling legislation; 1985 appropriations; and an amendment to nullify the Supreme Court's Grove City College ruling. (MSE)