Tuition for resident students at state and land-grant universities increased less in fall 1972 than it has for any fall since 1968. Two universities even put tuition decreases into effect. The slowdown in the amount of increase in student charges is based on responses to a survey from 98 of the 101 multi-campus institutions holding membership in…

The nation's principal state universities and land-grant colleges in this latest survey of tuition, room, and board charges seems to be committed to holding down student charges. This new survey shows the median charge for tuition and required fees for a state resident attending a major state university or land-grant college during the 1974-75…

The results of a national survey of salaries at public community colleges in 39 states and Puerto Rico are presented. The survey data were collected for the 1972-73 year in seven states and for 1973-74 in the rest of the states. The report is divided into six sections that correspond to the six questions on the questionnaire, which were as…

Fall 1978 survey results for member institutions of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) in the states represented by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education are analyzed and contrasted to the overall results from a national survey sample. There were declines in total graduate enrollment and in the number of first-time graduate…

This report presents salary data for the contract year 1995-96 for full-time instructional faculty on 9- and 10-month and 11- and 12-month contracts at postsecondary institutions in the United States. Analysis of the data shows that: (1) average salaries ranged from $64,540 for full professors to $30,344 for instructors; (2) average salaries of…

A statewide study of the needs of continuing education opportunities for persons motivated toward further study but unable to take advantage of conventional delivery systems of postsecondary education is reported. Four data collective activities were utilized: a learning interest interview field poll of 800 respondents; an inventory of current…

The first of seven sets of economic indicators for periodically measuring economic prospects for academic institutions is presented. The dominant finding is that the economic growth experienced by higher education in the past decade is slowing down. Key indicators include enrollments, total current revenue, total employment, capital contract…

This report summarizes the distribution of full-time faculty, by race and discipline, in the public four-year and two-year institutions of the 14 states of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) region. The data were gathered with partial support by a grant from the Ford Foundation. A basic objective of the project was to develop baseline…

Data and a brief analysis of migration of college students are presented. Information is presented on: enrollment by control of institution and "origin" of student for 1958, 1963, 1968, and 1975; net migration of college students and percent of student residents remaining in home state institutions for these four years; residence and…

Every institution of higher education in Mississippi was surveyed to determine the origins of students. The purpose of the study was to try to find the answer to the large increases in total enrollments reported by the state universities, the public junior colleges, and some of the private senior colleges after the opening of the 1975 fall…

Information on the age and tenure status of instructional and research employees in Missouri higher education institutions for 1978-79 is summarized, including employees who devoted at least 50 percent of their time to instruction, research, or a combination of the two activities. Information in three topical areas considered important to…

Data collected during the seventh and eighth annual studies of the application and enrollment patterns of State University of New York (SUNY) transfer students are tabulated. For the purpose of this study, transfer students were defined as undergraduate students who were enrolled at a SUNY institution for the first time in a fall term, but who had…

Presented are data on student financial aid in Missouri collected as part of an annual state survey of higher education. In this first annual report the data are limited due to reporting limitations and inconsistencies, and the report is called preliminary. An introductory section discusses these limitations. In subsequent sections, supplemented…

The first in a series of annual analytical reports prepared by the Missouri Department of Higher Education from the annual state data collection is presented. Tables, charts, and graphs provide numerical data, supplemented by brief analyses, in these areas: enrollment by sector; enrollment trends for fall 1974 through fall 1978; fall enrollment…

This document presents trend data, covering approximately a ten-year span, on Maryland postsecondary schools. The tables are grouped into nine topics: (1) factors affecting enrollment trends in the college-going rates of Maryland high school seniors, their intended major, college admissions test scores, and performance in college; (2) enrollment…