In the past three years, Board of Governors' (BOG) staff, working in cooperation with university representatives, have continued to improve the data collection and reporting capabilities for the State University System. Simultaneously, Board staff have worked to lessen the reporting burden on the universities by reducing the number of data…

Statistical tables in this summary report provide information on the following: (1) identification of numbers of students completing teacher education programs within the period September 1, 1989 through August 31, 1990; (2) new programs for the preparation of teachers initiated within the year, major revisions made to existing programs, and…

The "Higher Education Reconciliation Act of 2005" created two new grant programs for undergraduates: the Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) program and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (National SMART) Grant program. The ACG program is intended to encourage students to take challenging courses in high school and thus…

This report contains a summary of annual reports submitted by Colorado teacher education institutions from September 1990 to August 1991. The report includes chapters on: numbers of students completing teacher education programs September 1990-August 1991; new programs for teacher preparation initiated within the year, major program revisions, and…

A followup study on 1980-81 graduates from the Ohio State University College of Education collected data through three research methodologies. For the first part of the study, a demographic/professional perspectives questionnaire was mailed to a stratified random sample of 450 of the 888 graduates. The questionnaire asked graduates to provide…

Survey responses from 517 member institutions of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education are reported. The first section depicts the nature of the institutions (public land grant, public non-land grant, independent liberal arts, church-related liberal arts, private university, and predominantly black), and the patterns of…

A study undertaken by a fourteen member consortium representing five schools each of medicine, dentistry, and nursing had as its objectives to: (1) generate, assess and collectively approve a comprehensive list of teaching skills and strategies that approximates observed and representative behaviors in clinical sciences teaching in medicine,…

Findings and recommendations of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Control Study Volume I are presented. The culmination of a year of intensive effort in which the study was designed and data collection and analysis conducted is evaluated, with focus on improvement of the Basic Grant Program. The introductory chapter discusses the background…

This 1995 federal survey designed to provide the first nationally representative data about higher education distance education course offerings. Data were collected in fall 1995 from 2-year and 4-year higher education institutions and were weighted to provide national estimates. The study includes information about the percentage of institutions…

The possibility that direct participation by faculty in projects to revise curricula and create new instructional media would also generate a more systematic way of thinking about teaching was studied through administration of a questionnaire to faculty at Illinois State University who had received an instructional development program grant. Of…

In recognition of the need for Oregon to address issues associated with the increasing diversity of students in the education pipeline as well as on postsecondary campuses, the 2005 annual diversity report provides an overview of information relating to all sectors of Oregon University System (OUS) involvement in diversity considerations,…

The status of women and minorities in higher education is discussed, and two intervention strategies are described that were implemented by the Higher Education Resource Service (HERS, Mid-Atlantic) of the University of Pennsylvania to assist in training and advancement. In conjunction with Bryn Mawr College, HERS designed a month-long summer…

The physical facilities of 700 colleges and universities of the United States were studied by the National Center for Education Statistics in the fall of 1977. The primary study objectives were to: (1) develop a reliable estimate of what American colleges and universities must spend to make their programs accessible to the mobility impaired, as…