This report contains enrollment data for the 40 technical institutes and 17 community colleges in the North Carolina Community College System for the 1974-75 school year, with comparative data for the 1973-74 and 1972-73 school years. The data are presented in extensive tables and graphs which comprise the bulk of the document. Unduplicated…

The Open University is described as an independent, autonomous university which offers an opportunity for higher education to adults who could not or did not take advantage of the limited opportunity in England to enter an institution of higher education immediately on or shortly after leaving secondary school. It provides a basis for continuing…

During the last decade the growth in part-time enrollment of Canadian universities has been greater than growth in full-time enrollment, and the trend is expected to accelerate. Focusing on the dropout, a phenomenon of major concern in part-time university education, survey was made of all new students registered in the Mature Students Qualifying…

Proceedings of the EDUCOM 1974 Spring Conference are edited and collected under four topic headings related to questions of ever-tightening budgets and relationships between public institutions of higher education and state coordinating or governing boards. Aspects covered include the development of state-wide resources-sharing arrangements; the…

Presented is a social living curriculum for educable retarded secondary students. Outlined are procedures for teaching the following eight units: self concept and social attitudes, leisure time, communications, safety and first aid, health and physical fitness, citizenship participation, money and financing, vocational and occupational needs, drug…

Statistics are presented on 1975 enrollment at state universities and land-grant colleges. Figures are offered regarding: enrollment increases in the last six years at all levels; student enrollment in programs on campus; increases in extension enrollments; decreases in part-time enrollment; increased representation by women in student bodies;…

This collection of nine papers grew out of a series of presentations made by advanced graduate students participating in a seminar in Higher Education during the spring term, 1975. The purpose of the seminar is to afford advanced students an opportunity to explore in depth the topics considered in the more general way in the course sequence and in…

Principal objectives of this study were to examine the direction of changes in various Facets of Socioeconomic Environments (FOSE's) which had occurred during the decade of the 60's in each of four Tennessee counties; to identify the FOSE's which needed to be modified by public policies; to ascertain the socioeconomic characteristics related to…

Selections from papers given at a 1973 workshop held at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, are presented. Seventy-nine participants gathered to search out new insights into the changing world of girls and women. A forword by Carl McDaniels and an introduction by Thelma Lennon precede the 12 papers, which include: (1) Historical…

An on-line information system was designed and implemented in an elementary school using a time-sharing DEC-15 computer system to facilitate the management of individualized instruction. The system stores students' background information, test data, and instructional tasks. Teachers and researchers were able to retrieve desired data using either…

This document presents a compilation of abstracts of the various published and unpublished materials written about community college faculty since 1971. The abstracts are divided into eight categories: (1) comprehensive sources, (2) faculty characteristics (personality, attitudes, values, and satisfaction), (3) faculty preparation and staff…

This document is the first in a series that incorporates the findings of a project initiated to find solutions to the problems of planning, designing, constructing, and utilizing facilities to house career education. In the form of a loose framework of concepts intended to stimulate thought and discussion about learning, school, and the right to…

This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. The purposes of this manual are to document specific recommendations for desirable management practices in each of the areas of computer services and to make available criteria and guidelines that can be used to evaluate institutional…

This study is part of a program initiated by the Business Administration Division of El Paso Community College (Texas), in 1973 to evolve a curriculum with supporting instructional techniques which will meet the special needs of evening and part-time students in a student body which is nearly 60 percent Mexican-American. Evening students from this…

This report summarizes survey data on part-time faculty utilization in California community colleges. Data was received from 67 of the 69 community college districts. The primary purpose of the survey was to obtain information that would be useful to community college boards and administrators in dealing with part-time faculty legislation. Tables…