This report conducted for the Association of American Publishers, Inc. on the college textbook market provides the industry with operationally useful information and trend data on the prevailing attitudes, needs, purchasing and usage patterns of the prime users of college educational materials--the faculty and the students. Detailed findings…

The purpose of this study was to describe the environment at Arkansas State University as perceived by the students in the fall of 1972 and to ascertain whether these students agreed or disagreed with the environmental perception of a similar sample of students in the fall of 1969. The obvious objective of this analysis was to determine trend…

The information in this report pertains to the distribution of enrollments in Oregon's postsecondary institutions of education as of fall 1973. It is the purpose of this report to provide a reliable data base for use by those involved in comprehensive statewide educational planning. This is one of several annual reports published by the…

The information report to the superintendent of public instruction and to the California Board of Education contains statistics on the representation of minority groups in programs for the mentally handicapped (MH). Noted are school districts that have a 15 percent or greater variance between the ethnic group population in the district and the…

This report contains 1971-72 data for 90 senior institutions and 47 junior institutions, for a total of 137 Illinois institutions. The data in the report are presented in two sections. The first section contains the senior institutions and the second section the junior institutions. Space limitations demanded that the sub-bachelor's degrees and…

The aims of the first phase of the Statistics Indexing and Retrieval (STIR) Project have been: (1) to define the types and sources of statistics which should be within the scope of an operational indexing system for statistical sources; (2) to analyze the use made of statistical sources; and (3) to consider the intellectual, structural, and…

Data collected in a 1973-74 survey of faculty salaries and fringe benefits for California Community Colleges are provided in three schedules: (1) full-time faculty salary schedule, (2) distribution of salaries for full-time faculty, and (3) fringe benefits for full-time faculty and administrative personnel. The salary schedule for full-time…

Reported are four studies resulting from achievement testing activities from 1971 to 1973 with approximately 17,000 hearing impaired students from under 6 to over 21 years of age. The first study reports the relationships between selected achievement test scores (Paragraph Meaning and Arithmetic Computation subtests) and the following variables:…

This report presents the results of a survey of a pilot group of 19 community colleges as compared with 48 urban-commuter institutions. Tables 1-8 describe the sample of community colleges in terms of their enrollment, highest degree granted, accreditation group, location, ethnic predominance, and students housed. Data is also presented from the…

Opinions obtained by survey of faculty members of 42 universities on various aspects of department and university operations were categorized according to the faculty respondents' departmental affiliations. This paper reports an investigation of the relationship of faculty members' departmental affiliation to their responses to certain…

This report presents the results of the annual survey of geographic origins or permanent residence of all first-time credit course students attending the institutions of the State University of New York during the 1972 fall term. Following summary tables of first-time students by institution and permanent residence of first-time students, Part 2…

The school enrollment statistics reported in this publication are based on the Current Population Survey conducted in October 1973 by the Bureau of the Census. Although this report features the school enrollment of persons 3-34 years of age, 787,000 additional persons 35 and over are reported as enrolled in college. Two tables provide information…

This document analyzes income and expenditures of sophomore, junior, and senior students at the University of Minnesota, 1965-66. Chapter II investigates percentages of student income from various sources and student employment. Chapter III reviews total expenditures, housing and food, educational expenditures per quarter, personal, vacation…

This report presents a comprehensive description of seniors graduating from a broad cross-section of colleges, both public and private, with predominantly black student enrollment. Results of a questionnaire administered to seniors enrolled during their freshman and sopomore years in an innovative curriculum program (Thirteen-College Curriculum…

The 1972-73 Enrollment and Attendance Report provides a history of enrollment and average daily attendance (ADA) for the District and each college for the last ten years. In some instances, the data presented are not complete for the full ten years due to the lack of historical records. In others, a deliberate attempt was made only to summarize…