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Capps, Joan – 1985
In February 1985, a survey of the evening student population was conducted at Somerset County College (SCC) to profile the characteristics, background, and goals of the average evening student in order to facilitate program and services development and to ascertain student interest in a weekend college. Study findings, based on responses from 950…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evening Students, School Surveys, Student Characteristics
Download full textMilwaukee Area Technical Coll., WI. Dept. of Research, Planning, and Development. – 1985
In February 1985, 41 classes were offered on Friday evenings and Saturdays to test the Weekend College concept at Milwaukee Area Technical College's West Campus. A sample of students from the West Campus Weekend College was surveyed in April 1985 to obtain an evaluation of the program and a profile of the students attending. Surveys completed by…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Participant Satisfaction, Program Evaluation, Questionnaires
Milwaukee Area Technical Coll., WI. Dept. of Research, Planning, and Development. – 1988
In April 1988, a survey was conducted at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) to enable students to evaluate the college's functions, services, and facilities, and to gather data to construct profiles of MATC's day, evening, and weekend college students. Questionnaires were administered in class to 7,362 students (out of a total college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Participant Satisfaction, Questionnaires, School Surveys
Peer reviewedHale, Charles D.; Wattenbarger, James L. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1990
Describes a study of the relationship between 10 personal and attitudinal variables with the level of undergraduate academic participation among 220 adult students enrolled in a weekend college degree program. Includes 8 recommendations for colleges, and 3 suggested directions for future research. (PAA)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Higher Education, School Surveys, Student Attitudes
Matsen, Marie – 1989
During academic year 1988-89, a study was conducted at Lane Community College (LCC) to develop a profile of the students taking credit courses in the college's new Weekend College program, and to compare these students with other LCC students. A survey was administered in class, requesting information on students' reasons for taking classes at LCC…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Nontraditional Students, Questionnaires
Milwaukee Area Technical Coll., WI. Dept. of Research, Planning, and Development. – 1987
In April 1987, a survey was conducted at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) to provide students with the opportunity to evaluate the college's functions, services, and facilities, and to gather data to construct profiles of MATC day, evening, and weekend college students. Questionnaires were administered in class to 7,725 MATC students,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Day Students, Educational Trends, Evening Students
Milwaukee Area Technical Coll., WI. Dept. of Research, Planning, and Development. – 1986
In April 1986, a survey was conducted at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) to provide students with the opportunity to evaluate the college's functions, services, and facilities, and to gather data to construct a profile of MATC students. Questionnaires were administered in class to 7,869 MATC students including 3,324 day students, 4,123…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Day Students, Educational Trends, Evening Students
Lucas, John A. – 1992
In an effort to determine the needs and perceptions of students and faculty involved in evening and weekend classes at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) in Palatine, Illinois, surveys were sent to 400 students randomly chosen from 100 course sections taught at WRHC in fall of 1991, and to 767 faculty teaching evening or weekend classes during…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Planning, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Garin, Robert H. – 1979
Universities offering the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Texas were compared, and students presently enrolled in graduate business courses at East Texas State University (ETSU), Dallas, were surveyed. In addition, a marketing proposal to increase student enrollment is proposed. The following seven universities that offer MBA…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Enrollment, Evening Programs, Higher Education
Freidman, William – 1979
The problems of class scheduling in higher education institutions are discussed in this research study that investigated the scheduling preferences of students at Fontbonne College, a small, private, four-year college in Missouri. Scheduling for nontraditional, part-time students at Fontbonne has centered on evening and weekend classes with…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Faculty, Evening Programs, Flexible Scheduling
Center for Education Statistics (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1986
The Institutional Characteristics machine-readable data file (MRDF) is a subfile of the larger Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). It contains extensive descriptive information about more than 3,000 accredited institutions of higher education in the United States and its outlying territories. Each record includes the following…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Programs
South Oklahoma City Junior Coll., OK. – 1979
Of the 14 institutional research projects undertaken at South Oklahoma City Junior College during fiscal year 1979, four are summarized in this compilation which also contains a bibliography on non-traditional education in the two-year college setting. The first report presents, in three tables, a count of classes by time of day for the 1977,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Building Design, Classroom Design, Classrooms
Sutherland, Lee W. – 1980
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…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Students, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees
