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Los Angeles Pierce Coll., Woodland Hills, CA. – 1969
The responses of the 81% of the Fall 1968 night students completing a student-characteristics questionnaire are presented in charts and graphs, and compared with responses to similar questionnaires from previous semesters. Increases were found in the numbers of (1) full-time students taking evening classes, (2) single students, (3) students…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Enrollment, Evening Programs, Evening Students
Kefauver, Grayson N.; Noll, Victor H.; Drake, C. Elwood – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This manuscript was written by Grayson N. Kefauver, a part-time specialist, and Victor H. Noll and C. Elwood Drake, full-time specialists engaged on the National Survey of Secondary Education. It deals with pupils who attended the part-time continuation school's four or more hours a week and also with those who attended evening high schools. It…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, National Surveys, Part Time Students, Evening Programs
Birkbeck Coll., London (England). – 1967
Birbeck College, a non-residential School of the University of London, provides facilities in central London for part-time education in arts and sciences, at first degree and graduate levels. During 1966, an academic advisory committee studied the future role of the College and reported with recommendations concerning the size and scope of the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Costs, Degrees (Academic), Evening Programs
Rigterink, James M. – 1976
In order to respond to the recent nation-wide changes in student characteristics and enrollment patterns in community junior colleges, institutions must offer evening off-campus programs to meet the academic and motivational needs of a student population which is older, married, employed full-time, and enrolled part-time. Only 52 percent of 1972's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Community Colleges, Enrollment Trends, Evening Programs
Part-Time and Evening Students: Profiles and Prospects in the Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney.
Turtle, Alison M.; Jack, Sybil M. – Vestes, 1985
Results of a survey of University of Sydney faculty of arts students concerning their educational aspirations and progress, employment patterns, class scheduling and attendance patterns, and college choice are summarized and discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age, Attendance Patterns, College Choice
Grayson, J. Paul – 1996
This study evaluated whether the low retention rate (53 percent) between their first and second years of students at Atkinson College, the part-time evening school of York University (Ontario, Canada) is primarily due to institutional failure or to the characteristics and choices of mature students. A survey was sent to admitted students in…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Adult Students, College Bound Students
Thompson, James R. – 1977
A survey questionnaire was designed and distributed to students in 38 community college evening classes in order to determine student characteristics and evaluate student satisfaction. The sample of 463 students had the following characteristics: 56% were male; the average age was 28; 75% were taking only evening classes; 54% were married, 13%…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Ancillary Services, Community Colleges, Counseling Services
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Community Coll. System. – 1979
Selected characteristics of evening students in Hawaii's seven community colleges are compared with those of students enrolled only in day classes and those of students enrolled in day and evening classes. Evening students composed 28% (N=6,004) of the total enrollment; 16% of the total enrollment (N=3,419) attended only evening classes, 12%…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Day Students, Demography