The status of women enrolled in collegiate and noncollegiate schools in spring 1976 and social and economic characteristics of these students are examined, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 1976 Survey of Income and Education. For students who were dependents, information is presented on their families. Findings include the following:…

Current statistics on minority enrollment in Connecticut institutions of higher education are reviewed. Trends include the following: there were 12,777 minority students in state institutions in fall 1980; minority students represent 8.5 percent of the undergraduate students and 5.9 percent of graduate and professional students; minority…

The data provided in this report offer information about the enrollment and financing of community colleges in Maryland. Section I reviews enrollments in postsecondary education between 1955 and 1981, percentages of residents enrolled in colleges by city or county, birth rates between 1960 and 1980, and actual and projected figures for high school…

This methodological report describes in five chapters the techniques and assumptions that underlie and greatly influence the projections shown in the first volume of "Projections of Education Statistics to 1990-91." Chapter 1 describes the general methodology and assumptions used to produce the projections in Volume I. Chapters 2 through 5 provide…

Approaches to cooperation between colleges and schools in serving students capable of advanced work are examined. Two major ways of serving bright high school students within their own schools in coordination with colleges are: programs developed by individual colleges with particular high schools, and the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP)…

Information is presented on degree and certificate programs and the rate of student completions for fiscal year 1981-1982 at North Dakota postsecondary educational institutions. Information is categorized by program level and by type of institution. For the four- and two-year institutions, the chief administrator is identified, and data are…

Data concerning the place of residence of students attending Maryland colleges during fall 1984 are presented. The statistical tables indicate campus enrollment patterns of residents of Maryland counties and Baltimore City, out-of-state students, and foreign students. For each county, data are provided on the number of students attending each…

A series of tables are presented, providing a student profile based on unduplicated headcount enrollments for 1983-84 and illustrating enrollment trends. The first section looks at general enrollment trends, providing information for the college as a whole and by campus. These tables provide 5-year summaries of annual unduplicated credit and…

Data are presented on higher education in the South in 1983 and 1984, including more than 60 tables and brief descriptions of the latest available statistics for the United States, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) region, and the 14 individual SREB-member states. The tabular information is grouped under six headings: population and…

Extensive fieldwork and a questionnaire were used to study the population served by primary distance education (k-6), the perceived needs of home tutors, and the adequacy of support services provided by distance primary schools in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. The fieldwork phase found two major types…

Data are presented in tabular form for fall 1977 enrollments according to: institution (44 colleges and universities, public and private); off-campus centers; geographic origin; undergraduate and graduate status; distribution by county, state, and outlying area; headcount and credit-hours by institution and branches; full-time equivalents;…

This 1978 Update of the California Postsecondary Education Commission's Five-Year Plan reports on the progress that has been made in addressing the issues raised in the original plan and the 1977 update. Among the issues discussed are: (1) equal educational opportunity; (2) state-level postsecondary education information system; (3) financing…

This report presents attempts to understand more about how six background characteristics (small scale, population sparsity, district isolation within a BOCES (Boards of Cooperative Educational Service), interaction between a change in enrollment and initial scale of the district, rapid changes in full value property wealth over time, and large…

The procedures, results, and recommendations of the 1980-81 British Columbia Kindergarten Needs Assessment, the first province-wide kindergarten survey to investigate all aspects of the kindergarten program, are presented in this general report. Kindergarten teachers, district administrators and supervisors of licensed preschools, and a sample of…

Data tables and graphs illustrate trends in enrollment and student characteristics at Los Angeles City College (LACC) for the years 1972 through 1981. First, six tables present statistics on: (1) fall semester enrollment broken down according to day/evening status, sex, full-/part-time status, freshman/sophomore status, first-time/continuing…