This 50-state profile identifies and summarizes new laws affecting children and youth that were enacted by the states during the 1984 legislative sessions. The information was gathered through a phone survey of state legislative contacts. The draft report was sent to the 50 state contacts for comment and review. Thus the final report represents a…

Designed to inform decisions about the University of Alaska's (UA's) budget, direction, scope, and academic thrusts, this report provides statewide, unit, and campus data for the two- and four-year colleges in the university system. First, a systemwide summary offers information on finances, enrollments, student loan program participation,…

Data on 1982 summer and fall college enrollments in Pennsylvania are presented, along with brief narrative explanations. Tables are presented on the following: total enrollments in higher education institutions by type of institution, fall 1974-1983; enrollments in institutions by sex, fall 1974-1983; summer school registrations, 1974-1983; total…

A comprehensive three-part examination of student mobility among the 19 community colleges and 6 state universities in Kansas was conducted in 1984. The study involved coordinated analyses of student databases at the universities to determine selected demographic and academic characteristics of transfer students for 10 semesters from fall 1979…

An evaluation report on foreign language activities in the 39 state-supported institutions in Virginia is presented. After an overview of the state of the foreign language discipline, extensive information is provided for the state's two- and four-year institutions on foreign language offerings, enrollments, degrees, class size, state aid,…

As the third in a series of annual reports on the graduates of Virginia community colleges, this document contains information for the years 1973-74, 1974-75, and 1975-76 on racial distribution by sex, types of awards, and curricular groups; on sex by race, awards, and curricular groups; on age by awards and curriculum; on distribution by…

A sample of 145 people representing eighty farm operations and a statewide sample of 233 agricultural and agribusiness workers participated in a study to identify competencies, their importance (on a one to five rating scale), and the performance level required of a beginning farm operator in each of the following five cluster areas considered…

Data tables relating to the 16 Mississippi public junior college districts were compiled from the 1976-77 annual report to the Junior College Commission, the FY 1979 budget requests to the Commission on Budget and Accounting, and other available sources. The report was prepared to enable junior college administrators to reflect on norms and trends…

Data from audited financial statements of the individual New Jersey county colleges, the institutional Cost Reporting System, and the Office of Facilities Planning and Construction comprise this report for the fiscal year ending June 1977. The report provides financial information and analytical narrative on enrollments and educational cost per…

A comprehensive assessment of the career education programs offered in the school districts in Michigan was conducted, based on the assumption that the lack of systematically organized needs data for appropriate decisionmaking groups may be an obstruction to the statewide implementation of career education. A questionnaire instrument was…

Objectives of a three-phase New York State study were (1) to test the feasibility of an institutional sampling survey for providing descriptive data about the nature and scope of continuing education in postsecondary degree-granting institutions, (2) to test the applicability of the Focus Delphi research method for assessing the priority…

Presented are findings of a study to monitor programs for the educable mentally retarded (EMR) in California, with emphasis on the numbers of racial and ethnic minority students placed in EMR classes. The document is divided into six sections: an introductory section explaining impetus for the study; Section II with background information on the…

Tabular data on New York State are presented for: (1) degrees conferred in institutions of higher education by level of degree and institutional classi- fication, 1975-76; (2) degree trends in institutions of higher education by type of institution, level of degree, and year, 1971-72 to 1975-76; (3) degrees conferred by institution, level of…

The Statewide Longitudinal Study (SLS) of California Community Colleges was conducted between 1978 and 1981 to gather detailed descriptive and demographic data about California community college students and to answer questions about longitudinal research methodology and the needs of special student populations. This fifth and final SLS report…

Data on black college students and black colleges for 1980-81 are presented and briefly described. More than a million black students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities in fall 1980, and slightly more than half of these students attended colleges in the Southern and border states. Over a third of the black students in the Southern/border…