In 1981, a study was conducted to predict the possible effects of increased tuition and enrollment limitations in Washington on the community college enrollment of persons eligible for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs. Within four sample geographic areas, historical and projected data were collected from all CETA prime…

This eight-part factbook provides fall 1982 data on the facilities, faculty and staff, and full-time equivalent (FTE) and headcount enrollments at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). After noting the factbook's purpose as a source of information for the school's management by objectives system, part 1 presents overall institutional data on…

Three investigations on quantitative changes in higher education in Sweden are described. In Anders Nilsson's dissertation, "Study Financing and Social Recruitment to Higher Education (1920-1976)," attention was focused on changes in college recruitment from 1920 until reforms in 1977; the effect of various college financing conditions…

A review is provided of the flow of students to and from colleges in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). First, background is provided on the agreements between the LACCD and coterminus districts regarding interdistrict enrollments in effect prior to or during 1983-84; the effect of the initiation of free-flow policies in 1983-84;…

Trend data on college-going rates in California are considered in this 1984 update. Enrollment rates since 1974 and changes in rates experienced by major segments of higher education and by counties are examined. The information also provides a basis for analyzing the college-going rates of men and women and of several ethnic minority groups,…

Trends in veterinary school enrollments and the demand for veterinary services in 14 southern states and the United States are reviewed to help states monitor veterinarian supply and demand. Highlights include the following: in 1984-1985, southern veterinary medicine schools will produce twice as many graduates as they did a decade earlier; the…

Strategies and action programs for Frostburg State College are proposed to promote student recruitment, educational quality, and student retention. Data are provided to illustrate the decline in the numbers of traditional college students. Seven assumptions in making enrollment projections are also presented. Recommendations are presented in the…

With the decline of enrollment at a number of community colleges there is a demand for accurate enrollment projections, yet enrollment is increasingly difficult to forecast. Student body composition has changed markedly from the traditional 18 year old group as the percentage of women and part-time students and students' ages have increased. Also,…

There is no evidence of financial crisis in higher education, if by "crisis" one means the failure of institutions to balance revenues and expenditures. Most institutions were and are making ends meet, though not without some difficulty; most colleges and universities have had trouble recruiting sufficient numbers of students. As a rule,…

The three planning papers presented herein were previously given to separate audiences, but have the common denominator of promoting an understanding of the dimensions of changes and of the preparation for that change. They are: management of academic institutions in a period of change; state level policy issues and planning problems resulting…

Data on Vermont's participation in the Regional Student Program sponsored by the New England Board of Higher Education are presented. Tables and text are included that present and interpret data on migration of students into and out of Vermont under the program over the eight-year period 1969-1976. Detailed information for the 1976-1977 school…

This report is the fifth in a series of informational reports concerning the State of Washington's relative ranking in the nation in terms of various measures of support and factors that affect support levels. The report provides six national measures and contains "mini-comparisons" with the states of Oregon and California, which have…

Proceedings are presented of a conference that examined the purposes and setting of tertiary education in Australia in the changing social order of the 1980s, the future roles for tertiary education in Australia, and the pattern and form of accountability appropriate to Australian tertiary education in the late twentieth century. Papers and…

Data presented in this report are derived from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) fall 1980 Survey of Graduate Science Students and Postdoctorates, covering 9,930 graduate science and engineering (S/E) departments in 633 doctorate- and master's-granting institutions. Highlights of the survey indicate that: (1) graduate enrollment in S/E…

In summer 1980, William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) experienced a 35% increase in its full-time equivalent enrollment. A survey was commissioned to determine whether this increase was temporary and related to the economy and whether a similar increase could be expected for the fall. A quasi-random sample of 19 sections from the first eight-week…