A new form of composition of the indicators employed to generate the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is presented here. This form of composition is based on the assumption that random errors affect the measurement of each indicator. This assumption allows for replacing the vector of evaluations according to each indicator by vectors…

The directory provides current information designed to assist college students desiring to transfer in the selection of their new college or university. The handbook provides the specific information needed about transfer policies at 2,800 two-year and four-year U.S. colleges. College descriptions are alphabetical by state. In addition to general…

The directory provides current information and statistical data concerning New York's more than 250 public and private two-year and four-year colleges. The directory also supplies data, supplied by the colleges themselves, in such specific areas as: enrollment; freshman admissions requirements and procedures; major fields of study; special…

The directory provides current information concerning New England's public and private two-year and four-year colleges to assist college bound students in choosing the college or university they wish to attend. College descriptions are presented alphabetically by state (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont).…

Data presented include a graph comparing College Retirement Equities Fund progress with a major stock price index, 1990-93; a table of median salaries of chief academic and executive officers at public, private, and church-related colleges, by enrollment; and a comparison of faculty salaries and the Consumer Price Index, 1986-87 to 1991-92. (MSE)