This 1975 handbook is arranged in seven separate sections dealing with: organization and administration; Financial Secretary's Office; Division of Student Affairs; academic organization; executive affairs and development; intercollegiate athletics; and university-community relations. Specific policies related to faculty members include such areas…

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) survey of faculty procedures determines the nature and extent of faculty evaluation programs in the South. The president of each college was sent a copy of a questionnaire designed to provide data on existing policies, practices, and criteria for faculty evaluation. One of the most noticable aspects of…

This document contains reports on legislative action affecting higher education in the southern states that held regular or special legislative sessions in 1975. States covered are: West Virginia, Georgia, Virginia, Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama. Some of the…

The use of cable television at Oregon State University is described in the sixth of a series of profiles that will document the experiences of 24 institutions. Implementation of the technology is reviewed, as well as methods by which the educational needs of the university were met by it. Inducements for the cable operator are cited. In the early…

The policy-making process of the State University System of Florida is described using David Easton's model of a political system as the conceptual framwork. Two models describing the policy-making process were developed from personal interviews with the primary participants in the governance structure and from three case studies of policy…

Conceptualizing progress through college as a sequential process, the study examined factors that affect rates of persistence and dropping out, using longitudinal data for a national sample of young men attending college in the late 1960's. A principal conclusion was that factors important to understanding persistence vary with the stage of the…

The academic performance during Fall 1972 of regular admits, scholarship award winners, and disadvantaged students admitted under the exceptions admissions policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County is analyzed. Comparisons are made of the effect of tutorial assistance provided by the UMBC Learning Resources Center upon the grade point…

Data were collected from the American Council on Education's Cooperative Research Program Student Information Form, which, since 1966, has been gathering longitudinal information on students at a national sample of colleges and universities. The University of Maryland Baltimore County participated in this program for the first time in 1973. This…

A reappraisal of the educational mission of Western Michigan University is attempted by the All-University Committee on Graduate and Professional Education. The events leading to the creation of the committee, its charge, and its plan of action are described, followed by a history of graduate programs at the university. The purposes of graduate…

This annual report outlines the activites of the Florida State University System during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1974 and ending June 30, 1975. Each university of the state system reports separately on such topics as: academic affairs, administrative affairs, economic affairs; state-related research and public projects; enrollments;…

Comparison studies were made of the academic progress of junior college transfers, four-year college transfers, and continuous juniors (natives) at the University of Illinois, as measured by mean grade point average (GPA), academic status, and continued enrollment through the two years after transfer; of the performance after transfer with that…

Intended to assist both with the general preparation of personnel matters and the necessary documents for placing appointees on the official payroll of Southern Illinois University, the 1973 faculty handbook includes: (1) budget authority and responsibility; (2) faculty and administrative staff; (3) promotions; (4) salaries; (5) tenure; and (6)…

The Open University of Great Britain provides home-based instruction to nearly 50,000 predominantly-working students via broadcasts and correspondence. Each unit of instruction consists of a combination of text, broadcasts, cassette recordings, assignments, and experiment kits. The per student cost of this delivery system is impressively low,…

Very little is known about how students learn from television, particularly when television is used in conjunction with a prescribed set of written materials. At the Open University of Great Britain, classes have proliferated to the extent that it is not longer possible to broadcast one lecture to accompany each unit of instruction. To reduce air…

The Open University of Great Britain is an open-enrollment, home-based institution in which the majority of the instruction is conducted via broadcasts and correspondence. There are over 50,000 students ernolled in nearly 100 courses which require the transmission of 1,000 television and 1,000 radio broadcasts each year. Recently, research has…