The responses to questions of class size, degree requirements, starting salaries, and teaching load from 156 academic institutions involved in foreign language teaching are revealed. These may be benchmarks for evaluating and improving programs nationwide. (PMJ)

The theme of the 1972 annual forum of the Association for Institutional Research, Reformation and Reallocation in Higher Education, was chosen because it was timely and relevant to significant problems of higher education and, therefore, to institutional research. Papers presented at the forum fall under the categories of costs and the financial…

This manual contains a description of the detailed program planning and analysis procedures that yield the inputs for the facilities planning process. Also included is a proposal for systemwide facilities planning criteria appropriate for statewide or system-level evaluation of the outputs of institutional facilities planning systems. (For related…

This report is the result of an intensive analysis of five departments of geography in differing types of institutions: 1) Dartmouth College, an undergraduate liberal arts institution; 2) Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a former teachers college; 3) San Fernando Valley State College, a large, rapidly growing institution with a large intake of…

Findings are presented of research on 902 student teaching programs. The research study focused on: (1) administration of student teaching programs; (2) selected aspects regarding the student teachers themselves; and (3) selected aspects of cooperating teachers and school districts. A prefatory abstract presents a discussion of the objectives of…

The Seventh Annual Conference of the North East Association for Institutional Research (October 30-November 1, 1980) proceedings are presented on the conference theme, "Institutional Research in the Decade Ahead: Enhancing Performance." Thirty papers are contained in their entirety on topics including: the American university and its…