Descriptor
Higher Education | 9 |
Graduate Study | 6 |
Tables (Data) | 4 |
Educational Finance | 3 |
Foreign Countries | 3 |
Children | 2 |
College Faculty | 2 |
Declining Enrollment | 2 |
Doctoral Programs | 2 |
Educational Policy | 2 |
Educational Trends | 2 |
More ▼ |
Source
American Sociologist | 2 |
American Libraries | 1 |
Future of Children | 1 |
Gifted Child Today (GCT) | 1 |
Graduate Woman | 1 |
Author
Arias, Jaime, Ed. | 1 |
Bok, Derek | 1 |
Bosch, Samuel J., Ed. | 1 |
Bowen, William G. | 1 |
Carroll, Stephen J. | 1 |
Datt, Ruddar | 1 |
Hamblen, John W. | 1 |
Huber, Bettina J. | 1 |
Krop, Cathy | 1 |
Lewit, Eugene M. | 1 |
Mauksch, Hans O. | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Numerical/Quantitative Data | 14 |
Opinion Papers | 14 |
Journal Articles | 6 |
Guides - Non-Classroom | 2 |
Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 2 |
Books | 1 |
Information Analyses | 1 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Policymakers | 2 |
Researchers | 1 |
Location
Canada | 2 |
California | 1 |
China | 1 |
India | 1 |
United States | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Singer, Martin – 1996
This report reviews development of Sino-Canadian academic relations over the past 25 years. It offers an overview of four periods of Sino-Canadian academic relations (1970-79, 1979-83, 1983-89, and 1989-95), and briefly describes a number of programs in six areas: (1) foreign trade and economic cooperation, (2) foreign affairs and international…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Canadian Studies, Colleges, Cooperative Programs

Mayrl, William W.; Mauksch, Hans O. – American Sociologist, 1987
Results of the American Sociological Association's first survey of graduate departments in sociology shows a striking similarity among programs in terms of course requirements, number of credits, and thesis requirements. Authors suggest that the apparent absence of diversity may be a matter of concern for the discipline. (Author/DH)
Descriptors: Degree Requirements, Educational Assessment, Graduate Study, Higher Education
White, Herbert S. – American Libraries, 1979
Declining enrollments, eroding institutional support, and an increase in the number of library schools are indicative of an eventual decrease in the quality of graduate library education. Contradictions in current accreditation standards support the need for further discussion of the accreditation process. (FM)
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Faculty, Declining Enrollment, Graduate Study

Huber, Bettina J. – American Sociologist, 1987
Reviews actual and projected college enrollments from 1970s through the 1990s. Speculates that programs which were slow to expand their curricula to include sociological practice when the job market contracted in late 1970s, may reestablish narrow curricula once the academic market expands in late 1990s. Concludes that students are unlikely to be…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Enrollment Projections, Graduate Study, Higher Education

Lewit, Eugene M. – Future of Children, 1993
Examines the incidence of child poverty in the United States, criticisms of official poverty thresholds, and the influence of family structure and race on child poverty. Recent data show that 60% of poor children lived in families headed by single females and that the majority of African-American children will experience poverty at some point in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Census Figures, Children, Economic Factors
Krop, Cathy; Carroll, Stephen J.; Rivera, Carlos – 1997
This document presents 46 graphs with brief explanatory narratives that analyze trends in the California higher education sector and its environment. The trends examined include: undergraduate and graduate enrollment, student migration in and out of California's higher education sector, college-going rates of California's high school graduates,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
Bowen, William G.; Bok, Derek – 1998
This book examines issues of race in college admission through analysis of data from the College and Beyond database, a study of the college careers and subsequent lives of over 45,000 students of all races who had attended academically selective universities between the 1970s and early 1990s. The book examines how much race-sensitive admissions…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Strum, Philippa – Graduate Woman, 1981
Studies show that wage differentials between men and women are widening, especially when race is considered, and women are still underrepresented in some fields. It is suggested that affirmative action for women, especially in professional occupations, might have far-reaching positive results in sexual equality and community leadership. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
Datt, Ruddar – 1989
Distance education is offered by 4 universities and 34 institutes/directorates in India. All open universities have been brought under the direction of the Indira Gandhi National Open University with regard to networking and determination of grants. The networking has avoided unnecessary duplication of course preparation costs. Distance education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Continuing Education, Correspondence Study, Distance Education
Bosch, Samuel J., Ed.; Arias, Jaime, Ed. – 1978
This monograph derives from a conference sponsored by the Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences. The goals of the conference were (1) to establish channels of communication between health care evaluators from different disciplines and from different countries in the Americas, and (2) to promote an exchange of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Care, Children, Community Education
Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto. – 1995
This report examines the financial position of Ontario (Canada) universities, focusing on the effects of declining federal and provincial financial support for higher education. It argues that the provincial government has been underfunding Ontario universities since the 1970s, and that such underfunding is unrelated to general economic conditions…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
Hamblen, John W. – 1979
Based on a 1974 survey of over 1500 higher education institutions, data are presented that project professional computer manpower availability. Statistics for 1966 to 1979 are provided on associates, bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree programs in computer science, data processing, information science, etc.; majors enrolled; numbers of degree…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Computer Science Education
Walling, Derald D.; White, John T. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1988
The number of American versus foreign-born students studying mathematics, engineering, and physics in U.S. graduate schools is declining. A program developed at Texas Tech University's Department of Mathematics offers courses in these areas to high-ability secondary-school students, to acquaint them with career opportunities and exciting…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Courses, Career Exploration, College Programs
Upjohn (W.E.) Inst. for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI. – 1982
Social statistics may exaggerate the degree of hardship caused by labor market problems. Yet, in many ways social statistics underestimate the degree of hardship caused by extended unemployment, underemployment, and low wages. Therefore, new measures are needed to reassess long-term and cyclical labor market developments, the changing status of…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Data Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns