To determine what effect marriage deferment might have on the ability of both sexes to achieve higher educational levels and, therefore, possibly higher occupational status, the study examined socioeconomic status, attitudes toward future educational and occupational attainments, actual educational and occupational attainments, and desired…

This report compiles 1976-77 enrollment information for 1,023 two-year postsecondary institutions, including accredited or approved degree-granting junior and community colleges, multipurpose, technical and/or vocational schools and institutes, and university branch campuses. Following the dramatic 16.1% enrollment increase of 1975-76, total…

This cross-cultural research study, on 82 randomly sampled male urban Spanish speaking immigrants in the District of Columbia, analyzes the relationship of the immigrants' native educational attainment to occupation and to income, to assess their manpower utilization, and to make recommendations for manpower training programs. Data on economic and…

Based mainly on Current Population Survey 1969-1974 data, the report examines recent trends of overtime work, the impact of overtime work on earnings, and the current and past composition of the overtime force. In May, 1974 about 16.1 million workers, one out of every five employed persons, reported working more than 40 hours in his/her principal…

This study examines the responses of the 1,474 students who withdraw from Los Angeles City College during the spring semesters of 1973, 1974, and 1975, and who completed the exit questionnaire. In spring 1975, 65 percent of the withdrawees were of non-Caucasian background, and 46 percent were male. About 40 percent of the males, and 20 percent of…

Those who design educational policy, as well as those who plan to go to college, need to know what societal benefits derive from higher education, for whom the college experience is effective, and what aspects of the experience are valuable to what students. To investigate such concerns, a study was initiated in 1964: (1) to describe to faculty,…

This report compiles 1974-75 enrollment data for 923 American two-year post-secondary institutions. Comprehended in this report are post-secondary two-year junior and community colleges; multi-purpose technical and/or vocational schools and institutes; and university branch colleges, campuses, and centers. Total enrollment was2,819, 583, a rise of…

Conducted at Father Flanagan's Boys Home, the study investigated the relationship between a "teacher-advisor" educational program and students' attitudes toward school and toward classroom climates. Two methods of training were investigated: the Teacher-Advisory Training Program and the Teacher Effectiveness Training Program. A group of…

Focusing specifically on teaching as a career goal among rural youth in Norway, Germany, and the United States, this cross-national comparative study took into account the general patterning of career ambitions in each society--upward mobility opportunities, status attainment strategies, and organizational character of the educational systems…

As part of a longitudinal study of student progress through the Hawaii community colleges, spring 1976 applications to the system were studied. The total number of applications received numbered 6,692 (3,924 new students, and 2,768 transfers), about half the number received for the fall semester (13,631). The colleges accepted 90 percent of the…

This study addresses questions such as (1) the extent to which formal training determines occupational mobility, (2) evidence of racial differences in the returns to formal training in terms of occupational advancement, (3) importance of structural factors representing labor market segmentation in determining occupational mobility, (4) the impact…

A Federal contract study with Johns Hopkins University School of Health Services was initiated to analyze career decisions and behavior of unaccepted medical school applicants for implications as to their recruitability to alternative health careers. Questionnaires were sent to a national sample, stratified by sex, of 3,500 of the 16,800…

Texas, like the rest of the nation, is undergoing a shift toward an excess of females. Review of the changing balance of the sexes reveals that there were only 95.9 males per 100 females in 1970 with a projected drop to 93.8 by 1980. In 1950 Texas had an excess of 15,000 males, but by 1960 females outnumbered males by 90,000 and by 234,000 in…

As part of the Federally sponsored School Program Advancing Career Education (SPACE) in the schools of Greeneville and Greene County, Tennessee, a student interest inventory was conducted to aid in assessing a 45 percent dropout rate in the county. A 25-statement questionnaire (concerning occupational/career interests, communication skills, and…

A cluster sample of 1,300 male adults from the State of West Virginia stratified in terms of community size, region (north or south, mining or nonmining), and socioeconomic status were surveyed via questionnaire to determine their feelings about selected sociopsychological issues. Classified in terms of size, seven communities were involved in the…