The "Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Fact Book on Higher Education" is one of the nation's most comprehensive collections of comparative data on higher education. For decades, state leaders, policy-makers, researchers and journalists have used the "Fact Book" to find useful data quickly--and to learn more about…

This book is intended as a guide for working adults planning to attend graduate school on a part-time basis. Written in an informal, conversational style, it begins with a review of the development of graduate school as a part-time phenomenon and the changing nature of graduate degrees, and notes that what works for master's degree study may not…

A discussion of issues in third-language instruction and language teacher training focuses on the situation in Finland, where a second and third language is required of all students and it is possible to study as many as six languages in addition to the native language. The Finnish school system is explained, noting that second and third languages…

Data on New York's fall 1986 higher education enrollment and admissions, presented in 17 tables, includes: trends in degree-credit enrollment in public, independent, and proprietary institutions by institution type (fall 1970-1986); degree-credit enrollments by level of study, sector, and sex; percent distribution of degree-credit enrollment by…

A Citizens Advisory Committee--a blue ribbon commission--reviewed graduate education in the Oregon State System of Higher Education, focusing on the priorities, needs, and resources of the state. With respect to employment and research needs of Oregon and the nation as justification for graduate programs in Oregon, conclusions include the…

This bulletin focuses on liberal education for adults and includes an article on the topic and descriptions of seven institutional approaches. In "Creating Successful Liberal Education Programs for Adults," Carol Stoel points out that many adults are seeking a greater understanding of themselves and their world through liberal education…

The study reported here describes the development and testing of a curriculum model to extend the role of public health nurses into community nurse practitioners (CNP). The content is presented in six chapters. The first chapter overviews the conceptual framework for the CNP role and then describes the three-course sequence comprising the CNP…

Results of the 1980 survey of policy and practice in the employment of college and university graduates in business and industry are presented. A total of 142 companies responded to the inquiry, all but a few of which are large or medium-sized corporations. Reports came from 20 states and Washington, D.C. The variety of business interests…

As a prerequisite to developing an undergraduate weekend college for the School of Management at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, a literature review and correspondence with institutions providing a weekend college were undertaken. The study objective was to discover which institutions offer such a program, how they operate, the…

The Masters Degree in International Business Program at the University of South Carolina, begun in June 1974, has as its unique feature the emphasis on "lifelong experience." This emphasis affects both the student and the department. From the first year of the program (the basic features of which are intensive training in language,…

The influence of skills and education on work choices of Muscogee (Creek) women was examined in an ethnographic study during which 16 Muscogee women with educational levels ranging from an eighth grade boarding school education to a master's degree participated in multiple personal guided interviews. Only two of the women were not high school…

Data are presented on high school completion and college attendance trends for whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians. Also shown are minority group college enrollment trends; degrees earned by minority group; and enrollment (undergraduate, graduate, full- and part-time) by race at about 3,400 colleges and universities, organized…

This paper presents information on trends in racial diversity at Texas institutions of higher education and reports on progress of a 5-year plan to increase minority involvement through 14 tables and associated explanatory narrative. The Texas Plan targets goals of percentage representation of Blacks, and Hispanic throughout public higher…

International University (IU) is an independent, nonprofit, "virtual" institution that offers baccalaureate and master's degrees in business communication via classes conducted entirely on the World Wide Web and Internet. Courses are developed by experts in the field of business communications; IU then compiles the necessary study…

Results of the American Institute of Physics' 1986-87 annual enrollment and degree survey for physics and astronomy are presented. The summary report contains information about the degree recipients of 1986 and enrollments for 1986-87. Ten-year trends are presented to illustrate change. The data are presented in tables accompanied by narrative…