This report presents information on activities conducted at Highland Park Community College (HPCC) under a Ford Foundation Urban Community College Transfer Opportunities Program grant. Introductory material outlines some impacts of the grant program in terms of increased recruitment of HPCC students and the signing of articulation agreements. It…

Transfer (i.e., the movement of students and of their academic credits from one school to another) and articulation (i.e., services for transfer students) can no longer be thought of solely in terms of the linear progression of community college students to four-year institutions. While definitions and counting procedures vary considerably among…

A study was conducted at Mississippi State University to assess differences in the academic achievement of two matched groups of two-year college transfer students. One group (N=30) had attended a junior college which followed a traditional semester time table of 15 to 18 weeks, while the other group (N=30) had attended a junior college with a…

The computerized Identification-Placement-Tracking-System (IPTS) was developed at the University of California, Los Angeles, Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) as a remedy to problems in interschool coordination. As the IPTS currently functions, the EOC students select up to three colleges of interest for future matriculation. The schools are…

A national sample of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) candidates was surveyed to determine the ways in which they had prepared for the examination. Candidates' SAT scores were retrieved from test files, along with selected background information that included rank in high school class and scores on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT),…

Activities and outcomes of a Transfer Opportunities Program developed at Laney College, with a grant from the Ford Foundation, are presented in this report. Introductory material outlines the purpose of the program (i.e., to establish an intervention strategy to improve student academic performance and persistence; increase the number of students…

Recent forms of the new three-section Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) were administered to 88 native speakers of English just prior to graduation from a college-preparatory high school program. Total test score distributions were highly negatively skewed, reinforcing findings of earlier studies that the TOEFL is not psychometrically…

A statistical study was conducted to provide information about the flow of transfer students from California community colleges to the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) in 1981-82 and to gather data on the ages, majors, and ethnicity of those who transferred at the upper-division level. Study findings include…

In October 1979, William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) conducted a survey of 300 high school seniors and 300 parents of high school seniors to determine: (1) the students' and parents' image of WRHC; (2) the students' post-graduation plans; (3) under what circumstances a student would change his/her mind and attend WRHC; (4) under what…

To evaluate the preparation provided by William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to students planning to transfer to a baccalaureate program, a follow-up study of transfer-oriented students was conducted in 1980. All 429 transfer-oriented students who accumulated 48 or more semester hours during the 1978-79 academic year were surveyed, and data were…

This paper traces the concept of the "gifted disadvantaged" child and reviews the development of educational resources for this special population. The National Merit Scholarship Program is described as an example of a program which, though designed to provide opportunities for students from all social strata, until 1964, did not…

Students' reasons for applying for admission to the University of North Dakota for the academic year 1979-80 were studied. Information was obtained from a question appearing on the admission application form completed by all new freshmen and college transfer students. Results revealed that students cited reasons related to academic program 40.2…

This report is part of the Indiana College-Level Manpower Study and provides statistical information concerning future college enrollments and manpower supply. The survey data of this report deal with the educational and occupational plans of Indiana high school seniors who had pursued college preparatory programs at the secondary education level.…

In August 1975, the College of Eastern Utah (CEU) sent a questionnaire to all 380 1975 graduates of the three local high schools. Of the 148 respondents, 55 percent planned to enter CEU, 10 percent planned to enter a four-year college, 8 percent planned to enter another two-year college, 17 percent planned to work full-time, and 10 percent had…

This document presents statistical data covering various higher education activities in North Carolina. Highlights of the statistical information indicate: (1) In the fall of 1974 a total of 157,678 full-time and part-time students were enrolled in North Carolina colleges and universities. (2) The total 1974 college enrollment increased by 4.9…