This research brief reviews trends in Asian-American population and higher education participation. It determines the status of Asian-American students and faculty compared with other ethnic groups and identifies issues and problems connected with Asian Americans in academe. Data specifically include: composition of the Asian American population,…

Focussing on the 1991-92 academic year, this annual report for Daley College (DC) in Chicago, Illinois, provides descriptions and detailed data on exemplary programs and initiatives, DC efforts to improve educational programs, the comprehensive support services provided to students, efforts in the area of community relations, use of fiscal…

Future trends in enrollment projections are useful to school planners who are involved in making decisions about long-term requirements for school facilities and teachers. The 5- to 17-year-old population is expected to increase by 13 percent over the projection period to 2003. During the projection period, total enrollment is expected in 1996 to…

One of the strategies adopted by the California legislature to deal with the state's fiscal crisis was to raise college fees. As of January 1993, regular community college students in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) are charged $10 per semester unit, and baccalaureate (B.A.) degree holders are charged $50 per semester unit.…

This report presents statistical data in charts, graphs and tables illustrating trends in undergraduate medical school applicants and matriculants over the past decade. It highlights information at the milepost years of 1983, 1987, 1991, and 1992. Major trends are identified in the following areas: (1) the applicant pool (has been increasing since…

Presenting summary information on two-year postsecondary educational systems nationwide, this report describes educational structures in each state, except for South Dakota, which has no public two-year system. Chapters are divided by state, or by type of system for states with more than one system, providing comprehensive overviews of the…

Actual and projected enrollments from 1960-61 through 2002-03 and projected enrollments from 1993-94 through 2002-03 are given for public and non-public schools in New York State. Eight tables present the following enrollment information: (1) trends and projections of public and non-public school enrollment in kindergarten through grade 12 for…

Designed to answer those questions about the Arizona community colleges most frequently asked by legislators, state and external agencies, citizens, and college staff and students, this factbook offers organizational, financial, and enrollment data for the state system as a whole and individual colleges. Section I presents the State Board's…

This statistical summary contains 14 tables, 17 figures, and narrative that detail data on Missouri's 85 certified private career schools for 1996-97. During this time, these schools enrolled 44,391 students in 732 instructional programs, with most enrolled in business-related and allied-health programs. Other findings note that the schools…

This report summarizes information provided by National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) member schools surveyed in the fall of 1989. Information, which is supplied in narrative form accompanied by 29 statistical tables, includes enrollment, staffing, people of color, and financial aid data for the 1989-90 school year and financial…

This report is the product of nearly 2 years' work by the California State Postsecondary Education Commission on how the State of California should prepare for enrollment increases in higher education through the year 2005. The six sections of the report cover trends that will influence enrollment demand; the current growth plans of the state's…

In 1992, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges held a special study session on how the system should respond if resources were not sufficient to fund the colleges' role within the Master Plan for Higher Education. This report summarizes testimony provided during the session, which focused on the following themes: college…

The Extended Day Program (EDP) (previously known as the Before and After School Program) was first implemented at elementary schools in the Kansas City, Missouri School District in 1985-86. The EDP seeks to provide a place for children of working parents to stay before and after school and to give students the opportunity to engage in academic…

This volume (the third of three), displaying statistical tables (98 percent of the report) on enrollment trends for the State University of New York (SUNY), is divided into three parts. Part 1 displays trends from 1959 through 1991, and provides data by individual institution and institutional type regarding the percent of the institution's…

This book offers an overview of the health and financing of higher education in the United States in an almanac form for 1992. Diverse and extensive types of information are arranged in three main sections, the first covering higher education in the nation as a whole, the second offering state-by-state reports and the last giving statistics on…