This report provides an estimate of college going rates by county for all 93 Nebraska counties for the high school graduating class of 2005-2006. Included are graduates of both public and private high schools. The report provides best-available data on graduates who attended Nebraska institutions (including public, independent, and for the first…

This resource guide is an alphabetical listing of information on Arizona's universities, colleges, and career schools. It provides a summary of accreditation including institutional and specialized accreditation, a listing of accrediting agencies, general education development, and student financial aid information. This resource guide begins with…

The report deals first with the status of comprehensive educational planning for post high school education in Florida, with the development of organizational structures for administration of educational programs beyond high school, with the quantitative aspects of enrollment and financing, with the general problem of long-range planning and…

The National Governors Association, Council of Chief State School Officers, and the National Association of State Boards of Education jointly devised recommendations in 11 areas in order to achieve America's education goals for every student since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001. These recommendations included giving…

California's existing system of providing majority access to community colleges for all who desire to enter public higher education and limited access at the freshman level to the California State University and Colleges and to the University of California appears to be effective. The community colleges are well equipped to meet the needs that…

This report provides information on the degrees and certificate programs offered in Oregon's postsecondary institutions of education for the 1973-74 academic school year. Degrees and certificate programs are listed as given in the institutions' catalogs. An inventory of programs for each postsecondary institution is provided in appendixes, which…

Due to rising educational costs private colleges have a hard time competing with public colleges. However, the private college offering vocational education will continue to flourish as long as it provides the highest quality career education and a superb placement service for its graduates. (DS)

Describes Polish folk high schools, which provide free postsecondary leadership training for rural young people as organizers and instructors in community cultural-educational work and in physical education and sports. The training leads to employment in rural community centers and social and recreational clubs. (MF)

This planning document was prepared in response to the basic responsibility of the State Board of Education regarding the planning and coordination of postsecondary education in Michigan. More specifically, it is the responsibility of the State Board of Education to develop a statewide system for collecting appropriate information from both public…

Divided into three parts, this booklet is designed to assist guidance counselors and administrators in identifying financial programs which aid migrant students in obtaining a higher education within the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Part I lists 18 common student financial aid programs available within SUNY. These include grants,…

This Plan for Postsecondary Vocational Technical Education is a work in progress to build a seamless technical education delivery system from secondary through postsecondary education to employment. The plan outlines mechanisms to heighten citizen awareness of the critical importance of technical human resources to the state's economy. Similarly…

This report outlines the Commission's tasks and progress in fulfilling the goals of the "Comprehensive Statewide Plan for Postsecondary Education." The "Plan" identifies goals that lead to an educationally and economically sound, vigorous, and synchronized system of higher education. The "Plan," considered a…

This audit summarizes and analyzes enrollments, program offerings, finances, and capital facilities data for 35 2-year agricultural and technical colleges and community colleges in New York, and highlights significant trends. In addition, county charge-back payments, as well as detailed quantitative information for each of the 35 colleges, which…

Listed are over 1,000 programs for the deaf including preschool through secondary schools and classes in the U.S. and Canada, postsecondary programs, teacher training programs, programs for professional specialists, programs for training interpreters for the deaf, programs for the deaf-blind, the Helen Keller National Center, and programs for…

As part of a study of the success of tranfer students as measured by their grade point averages (GPA's), questionnaires were sent to most postsecondary institutions in Pennsylvania. Of the 110 four-year institutions surveyed, 56 (51%) supplied usable data. They reported 2,441 transfers from Pennsylvania community colleges. Of the 2,000 students…