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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1987
Responding to a request by the United States Senate, this report examines the patterns of distribution of federal research funds to universities and colleges. These distribution patterns were determined by institution, state, agency, and field of science. In addition, the document provides an analysis of the extent to which patterns of…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, College Science, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Central Staff Office of Institutional Research. – 1987
Data on credit course enrollment (headcount) and degrees granted by State University of New York (SUNY) institutions from 1948 to 1986 are presented. Data on headcount enrollment and degrees granted are provided for the individual institutions and institutional types for SUNY as well as system-wide. The enrollment data are for the fall term of…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Students, Credit Courses
Malaney, Gary D. – 1986
A program at Ohio State University that allows graduate students to develop self-designed interdisciplinary degree programs is described (the "One-of-a-Kind" program). An evaluation of the program was undertaken by surveying: 6 current students and 15 graduates of the program since its inception in 1972; faculty members who served as…
Descriptors: Alumni, College Faculty, College Programs, Faculty Advisers
Broughton, Valerie J. – 1986
The relationship between community college transfer students' experiences at an urban, doctoral-granting commuter university and their enrollment intentions was studied using Bean and Metzner's conceptual model of attrition for nontraditional students. Of 300 community college transfer students at a state-supported urban university who were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, College Transfer Students, Commuter Colleges
Fidler, Paul; And Others – 1986
Characteristics of entering freshmen at the University of South Carolina (USC) Columbia campus are compared for 1975, 1980, and 1985. For each year, over 2,000 students completed a questionnaire prepared by the American Council on Education. National norms for public universities are provided for 1985, along with comparative data for the 1985…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Students, College Choice, College Freshmen
Bowen, Frank M. – 1986
Serious capital outlay issues that California faces with growth and change are addressed. Initial studies and policies leading up to the 1960 master plan that guided the first period of growth and expansion are covered and the impact of the master plan is examined, along with changes in society and higher education during the 1960s, 1970s, and the…
Descriptors: Campus Planning, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), College Students, Community Colleges
Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities, Toronto. – 1984
A comprehensive summary of postsecondary educational opportunities in Ontario is presented to assist students in choosing a course of study. After presenting information on student costs and student financial assistance, general information on Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology is provided. For each college, apprenticeships programs, regular…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, College Programs, Correspondence Study, Degrees (Academic)
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Central Staff Office of Institutional Research. – 1986
Data on tuition and other student costs for the State University of New York (SUNY) are presented, along with a brief narrative summary. Information is provided on: in-state and out-of-state tuition charges for graduate and undergraduate students, 1980-1986; trends in undergraduate and graduate student tuition and other charges by program level,…
Descriptors: College Housing, Commuting Students, Fees, Graduate Students
Omari, Khalid; Zughoul, Muhammad Raji – 1986
This study investigated the effect of a set of predictors of success in both the undergraduate English program and in all other subjects. Academic data for the graduates of an Arab university's English department during three years were analyzed. The predictor variables examined were: (1) total scores on the secondary school certificate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Arabic, College Admission
Berendzen, Richard – 1986
A personal account of Richard Berendzen's life as president of The American University (AU) in Washington, D.C. during the 1983-1984 academic year is presented in diary form. The account describes his interactions with faculty, students, administrators, and people outside the university to further the goals of the institution. In the year prior to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College Environment, College Presidents
Maryland Univ., College Park. Div. of Student Affairs. – 1986
The satisfaction of University of Maryland College Park students was assessed as part of the Maryland Longitudinal Study. The College Student Satisfaction Questionnaire was used as a basis for determining satisfaction in the following areas: compensation, social life, working conditions, recognition, and quality of education. The results indicate…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Environment, College Freshmen, Educational Quality
Lipschutz, Susan S. – CGS Communicator, 1988
The graduate school at the University of Michigan (UM) is seeking to identify the characteristics of a high quality graduate education, taking into account various aspects of quality that are susceptible to numerical analysis as well as those that are not. Contemporary research universities are composed of many autonomous spheres (undergraduate…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Graduate School Faculty, Graduate Students
Yang, Meng – 1987
Graduate education in the People's Republic of China is discussed with attention to: historical developments, criteria and trends in enrollment, selection/approval of degree-granting institutions, reforms in graduate education, and international exchanges. Trends in graduate enrollments and degree awards since the Cultural Revolution are briefly…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Change, Educational History
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1987
This report reviews and analyzes progress made by the California Community Colleges (CCCs), University of California (UC), and California State University (CSU) in improving transfer and articulation. After part 1 discusses the origins and purposes of the report, part 2 highlights events affecting transfer and articulation in California since…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Higher Education
Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin; Rodriguez, Consuelo Juarez – 1987
Previous research on Mexican Americans in higher education has ignored more prestigious institutions. A survey of 63 of the 79 Chicano graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979 revealed 2 distinct groups. One group (57%) resembled the traditional profile of Mexican American college students. These students came from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Educational Status Comparison, Educationally Disadvantaged
