This progress report examines past growth trends and identifies areas in which the New York State postsecondary system has made strides in adjusting to recent changes in the educational needs of students. Section 1, postsecondary education in New York State, examines the growth of the system; the changing times; and statewide progress in the area…

Today's enrollment situation is uncertain, especially in comparison with recent past. Some institutions experience growth in student numbers, while in others enrollments plateau or decline. Nontraditional students challenge a variety of institutional arrangements. Many past assumptions for predicting enrollments are inadequate. Projection studies…

Among the freshmen who entered the City University of New York (CUNY) in fall 1970, about 63% were enrolled without interruption in each of their initial four semesters. Approximately 70% of them were enrolled in CUNY during spring 1972, the fourth semester since their original enrollment. At the senior college, more than 75% were in attendance…

The Task Force on the Status of Women in Graduate Education at the University of Michigan produced this final report concerning: issues and problems regarding women in higher education, the committee to study the status of women in graduate education and later careers, special needs of nontraditional graduate students, access to graduate school,…

The school enrollment statistics reported in this publication are based on the Current Population Survey conducted in October 1973 by the Bureau of the Census. Although this report features the school enrollment of persons 3-34 years of age, 787,000 additional persons 35 and over are reported as enrolled in college. Two tables provide information…

The authors develop a model of undergraduate student attendance that relies on five parameters, one of these being a parameter of total work, w, required to complete the degree. An enrollment forecasting method consistent with these attendance patterns is developed and compared with data for the period, 1961-1966, and a cohort of 2126 and 3298…

This document reports the results of a survey of graduate student admissions at the State University of New York. Results indicated that on the master's level: (1) There were 21,924 applications for master's degree programs in 1972. (2) Acceptance rates for these applications varied widely from 27% to 98%, with an average of 62% of the…

In this speech, the author explores some of the implications of decreasing school enrollment, while emphasizing the need for study and planning, suggesting some strategies and courses of action, and indicating some concerns. Topics considered include reducing the number of school personnel, educational finance, and the quality of educational…

Most of this report consists of data in tables covering the following items: the total instructional staff, the faculty under tenure rules, the temporary instructional staff, salaries, new faculty, the rate of promotion of faculty women, length of service to Michigan State University, women in administrative positions, women graduate students,…

This paper discusses enrollment projections and trends in public and private colleges and universities. (1) Total enrollment in higher education may reach 14 million by 1982 and 12 million of these will be in public institutions, almost a 100 percent increase since 1970. Enrollments in private institutions will probably increase by only 5 percent.…

This study reexamines admissions policies and procedures at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and determines how to more accurately forecast how many applicants will matriculate. A questionnaire similar to one used in the 1968 study was sent to 1,255 new freshmen for the fall of 1972 who did not appear. From this number, 764 responses were…

This paper is a statistical study of the growth of higher education in the United States with emphasis upon trends in student enrollment patterns at all levels. The flow of students from high school graduation through the graduate schooos is described through an examination of graduation rates, entrance and attrition rates at each level, and the…

This report traces the development of a "Practical Chemistry" or "Vocational Chemistry" course for high school students who do not plan to attend four year colleges. Work was begun in 1964 at Northview High School, Covina, California and has resulted in the writing of experiments and Teacher's Guide materials as well as textbook materials for a…

This report examines existing mathematical methods that have been utilized to develop educational enrollment estimates and analyzes the applicability of these methods in the community college setting. Models surveyed are based on (1) extrapolation--by either survival cohort or cohort-regression, (2) structural flow, and (3) Markov-type procedures.…

This publication is an account of a Seminar on the Development of Higher Education which was organized and financed conjointly by the Belgian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs and the Directorate for Scientific Affairs of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Presentations at the seminar centered around the problems…