Surveys of students and alumni are viewed as helpful by accrediting teams, college recruiters, career counseling and placement officers, current and prospective students, etc. Only in large-scale national surveys like Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) is there potential for individual colleges to utilize data for their own…

Database documentation is provided for a data file containing survey statistics on students graduating during the 1983-84 academic year from colleges and universities in the continental United States, with particular emphasis on students who were newly qualified to teach. The 39-item questionnaire focused on respondents' educational and…

A data file which contains survey statistics on students graduating during the 1983-84 academic year from colleges and universities in the continental United States, with particular emphasis on students who were newly qualified to teach, is presented. The file contains 10,311 records. The sample of schools was chosen from the 1981-82 Higher…

This document summarizes National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data on the topic of lifelong learning, which is defined broadly as "all types of learning activities in which adults engage" and which includes both "traditional" and "nontraditional" (returning) postsecondary students. All 11 NCES data sets…