The tables present faculty salary data in academic year 1967-68, including for the first time an approximation of the total annual income of geographic full-time faculty. The report is based on the salary information reported by 61 U.S. medical schools, of which 51 reported salaries for strict full-time faculty, 27 reported the base salaries paid…

Data are presented in tabular form on faculty salaries for the 1968-69 academic year, derived from salary information report by 89 U.S. medical schools. A series of 3 tables is provided for each major clinical department and for the combined basic science departments, presenting the frequency distributions of strict full-time salary, geographic…

Various forms of bias in the British higher education system are examined in ten papers presented at a conference on "Biases in Higher Education." After an introduction by David Warren Piper, Tyrrell Burgess links the Popperian paradigm of scientfic method to the practical possibility of a nonexclusive education system. In "Bias Is…

Cultural and language differences of the elderly Hispanic population and socioeconomic and health problems which afflict them disproportionately represent a unique and difficult challenge to public and private service providers. Information from various federal agencies provided material for a report examining demographic characteristics, living…

Presented is the report made by the Financing Panel of the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC) on the impact of financing issues on graduate medical education medical practice, especially those related to the geographical and specialty distribution of physicians. After an introduction to the study, the following are…

The document explains geographic concepts, products, and programs developed by the Census Bureau to assist users in analyzing census data for geographic areas. Emphasis is on small-area data such as census tracts, city blocks, minor civil divisions, incorporated places, congressional districts, and wards. Also presented are data for larger units…

THE SIMILARITY OF JOB CORPS TRAINEES TO THE POPULATION OF THE SAME AGE FROM WHICH THEY WERE DRAWN AND PROPORTION OF TRAINEES COMING FROM EACH STATE WERE DETERMINED. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM PREENROLLMENT APPLICATIONS, CENSUS REPORTS, AND PUBLICATIONS. FINDINGS INCLUDED -- (1) THE NUMBER OF 16- TO 17-YEAR-OLD MALE TRAINEES WAS DISPROPORTIONATELY…

INFORMATION FROM THE 1964 NATIONAL REGISTER OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PERSONNEL ON THE SUPPLY, UTILIZATION, AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NATION'S SCIENTIFIC MANPOWER RESOURCES IS REPORTED. A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS USED TO OBTAIN DATA FROM 224,000 PERSONS INCLUDING (1) KNOWN QUALIFIED SCIENTISTS, (2) RECENT GRADUATES OF COLLEGE SCIENCE PROGRAMS, (3)…

This is a report of hearings held in Washington, D.C., on March 10 and 12, 1980, on the Health Professions Education and Distribution Act of 1980--three bills amending Public Health Service Act, Titles VII and VIII, and the national health Service Corps Program. S. 2375 would extend assistance programs for training health professionals and the…

The document is a collection of six papers on key problems in health manpower which were presented at a symposium during the 1974 spring meeting of the Institute of Medicine. A seventh paper provides a summary of the major themes at the conclusion of the program. All of the symposium papers deal with the principal manpower issues of supply,…

This report presents a statistical portrait of the demographic aspects of aging and the older population in the Unites States. Most of the estimates are based on data from decennial censuses, the program of nonsurvey population estimates and projections carried out by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the Current Population Survey, and other census…

The Ohio Instructional Grant Program is a financial aid program designed to assist low- and middle-income students who are enrolled for full-time undergraduate study in eligible Ohio institutions of higher education. It is intended to supplement financial resources that are already available to students. The Ohio General Assembly appropriated…

This study of vocabulary change investigates the regional vocabularies found in eight of the Southern states and seeks conclusions about the relative changes in uniformity in current local use. Assumptions, procedures, and techniques for research are presented here. The results reported were obtained from a printed vocabulary questionnaire…

This document consists of tables and figures detailing the status of and projections for public and private institutions of higher education in the state of Washington. Following a brief introduction, Chapter 1 identifies highlights of the report, including: entrance eligibility for public institutions; Washington state higher education enrollment…

Reviews two software programs, "PhoneDisc Business95" and "BusinessMAP LTF," that offer user-friendly, low-cost, and quick methods of identifying and mapping patterns of the names of U.S. businesses. This software can be used to help students understand how populations see and define themselves regionally and visualize the demographic spread of…