The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation combined its concern that few top flight scholars are choosing the humanities for careers and its awareness of the current oversupply of humanities faculty to create a $24 million fellowship program to direct talented graduate students into English and comparative literature, American studies, history, classics,…

Discusses a study to determine (1) the change in the number of participants in adult education in Finland and the change in educational content, (2) the participants' background, (3) the geographical density and concentration of participation, and (4) obstacles to participation. (JOW)

Results of a telephone survey of administrators at all 53 public residential high schools serving hearing impaired students indicated that the size of the graduating clases for 1983 through 1985 will be substantially larger than recent classes and that approximately 30 percent of the graduates in each year's class are expected to enter academic…

Surveyed graduate schools to determine the status of graduate admissions practices comtemplated or in effect and to identify how enrollment problems are handled. Results showed a decline in graduate enrollment over the past five years, caused by the national economy, decreases in available students, and loss of grant money. (JAC)

A pattern of uncontrolled expansion in teacher education in Western Australia is chronicled through Commonwealth policy and the reports and recommendations of several commissions of inquiry. Specific planning problems and changes felt to be irrational are noted. (MSE)

To assess the impact of economic conditions on enrollment in higher education, researchers used time series analysis on national data for 1966-78 and on 1972-78 data from all eight regions of the country and the University of Arizona. The findings indicate enrollment has gone up during economic downturns. (Author/RW)

Surveyed southern colleges (N=53) for their admission procedures regarding Black students. Found 91 percent had the same admission criteria for Black and White students, while 65 percent made a special effort to recruit Black students. Suggests institutions that make a special effort to increase Black students have more success. (Author/JAC)

Compares 1970 and 1980 data concerning population, population per housing unit, school age population, and public school enrollment for the suburbs surrounding Chicago, Illinois. (FL)

Discusses changes in graduate enrollment in master's and doctoral programs in English education in the near future. (HOD)

The article reports the results of a 1979-80 survey of the kind and number of French language programs in Canadian elementary schools. It notes the development of both traditional and immersion French language programs and the increasing enrollment in French programs, especially in Eastern Canada. (SB)

The development of Mexico's technical education system is examined. Technical education, the most rapidly growing sector in Mexican education, is seen as a means of training a future labor force for better jobs, meeting the requirements of modern industry and services, and keeping certain age-groups in the educational system. (AM)

This article estimates 1980-81 undergraduate cooperative student enrollment in 12 curriculum areas, both for the total cooperative education institution population and for seven stratifications of this population. Data indicate that business and engineering curricula contain the largest cooperative student enrollments. (CT)

Discusses the current shortage of Latin teachers in the face of growing enrollments, citing as one reason for this shortage inadequate efforts to recruit candidates for Latin teacher training programs. Recommends a reactivation of these programs, with encouragement for new teachers to enter the profession at the secondary level. (MES)

Attempts to explain the high rate of student attrition in first-year language courses. The author gained insight into the problem when he enrolled in a Chinese course, which he eventually dropped because of lack of incentive. He concludes that awareness of the need for language learning will curb attrition rates. (Author/PJM)

Examines the decline in student enrollment in news-editorial studies. Argues against the misconception that jobs in the news-editorial field are hard to find and low paying. (RL)