New Jersey's plan for increasing minority group participation in higher education is presented. The plan, developed in response to declining minority enrollments, outlines eight goals for student recruitment and retention and the strategies intended to achieve them. The goals concern strengthening efforts to attract academically prepared minority…

Fall 1982 statistics on the geographic origins, or permanent residence, of students attending institutions of the State University of New York are presented. This second of two volumes presents reports that display credit course students by origin or origin grouping. Separate tables are presented for each New York State county. Data are also…

Enrollments for undergraduate and graduate majors in California are examined and compared to national trends. Information is provided on changes in degrees awarded by field of study in the nation from 1960-1961 to 1979-1980 and in California from 1976-1977 through 1980-1981. Using data from the Higher Education General Information Survey, changes…

Comparative higher education data for 1982-1983 are provided for the 14 Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states. Brief narrative summaries are also included for each of the following topics: state appropriations, tuition and fees, faculty compensation, enrollment, degrees awarded, health professions education, and student testing results.…

Since 1977, school budgetary problems have been created by a decline in state and federal tax revenues combined with a greater demand for services and declining student enrollment. The serious erosion in the fiscal health of the 50 states over the last few years means that competition for tax dollars will increase, leaving government with the…

This report contains state and district statistical summaries for South Carolina elementary and secondary public schools from 1969-70 through 1981-82. During that 12-year period, while enrollment for grades kindergarten through 12 declined by about 7 percent and for grades 1 through 12 by approximately 12 percent, public kindergarten enrollment…

In 1988, a review was conducted of the business component of associate in arts and associate in science (AS) degree programs, and of the certificate programs in business in Florida community colleges and area vocational-technical centers. Focusing primarily on business programs in marketing, general business management, and small business…

This building profile provides standard information about one of the 129 schools of the Cleveland Public Schools (Ohio) in 1986-87. Information for the Central Intermediate School (CIS), serving grades 7 and 8, is presented along with comparative data for the school cluster and for the district as a whole. In 1986-87, 404 Black students and 237…

The "Residence and Migration of College Students" machine-readable data file (MRDF) is based on data gathered periodically as a part of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). Data are collected from the regular HEGIS universe of over 3,000 accredited higher education institutions in the United States and its outlying…

For the project year 1985-86, Idaho's allocation of federal funds for Chapter 1 was $9,256,844. This amount was distributed utilizing Southwestern American Indian myths, legends, history, and remedial instructional programs that would benefit educationally deprived students in the basic skill areas of reading, mathematics, and language arts.…

A statistical profile of higher education, a general review of developments during 1986-1987, and policy statements and activities of the National Education Association (NEA) are presented in this 1988 NEA Almanac. The statistical profile covers enrollment trends, degrees, faculty salaries, endowments, appropriations to community colleges, scores…

Information on the geographic and institutional origins of students at 32 Arkansas state and private colleges and universities in the fall 1980 is presented in tabular, geographic, and narrative form. Although the number of full-time, entering students from both Arkansas and out-of-state has declined, their proportions have remained relatively…

The labor market for persons who continue their education beyond high school is projected for 1985. After a brief discussion of the probable changes in the occupational distribution of new entrants by occupation, attention is directed to likely trends in wages of younger workers. Also considered are projections concerning underemployment of…

This report provides the technical documentation and detail supporting the policy paper of the same title. The study reported here examined the relationship between various state financing policies for postsecondary education to graduate and professional education in Minnesota. Following an overview of the Coordinating Board recommendations,…

There are parents and students who are to be won or lost depending on which sector--public or private--answers their calls for programs to match their learning styles and desire for rigor, vitality, and variety. This report examines where choice has evolved from, what it offers parents and students, and how its disappearance could affect this…