The U. S. Agency for International Development (AID) contracted with the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) to provide professional consultant services and academic credential analysts to improve the selection and admission of AID-sponsored participants (foreign students) for study in U. S. academic…

The questionnaire of the project "Planning the Development of Universities" was designed with the help of experts from all the continents of the world and covered most aspects of university activity. The sample group consisted of 107 universities of which 80 were from 50 different countries. This analysis of questionnaire responses includes a…

The Institute of Library Research is a statewide organized research unit of the University of California whose activities have been directed toward the objectives of education, research, and public service. During the period from July 1972 to July 1973, the Institute underwent structural reorganization in which all of its operations were…

The purpose of the study was to provide information and guidelines for future planning of adult education programs by the Yakima Indian Nation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Central Washington State College Center for the Study of Migrant and Indian Education. Data were collected by field interviews. A respondent sample was selected from 4…

This report examines current trends in long range planning for colleges and universities and projects the broad outlines of American higher education of 1980. Chapters cover evaluation of coordination and long range planning; the structure of state-wide planning and coordination; master plans for higher education; voluntary coordination and long…

The purpose of this research study was to determine whether there was any evidence of a shortage of health care personnel in the southeastern Michigan area; and if there was, to make appropriate recommendations. A questionnaire was sent to 107 health organizations, 50 educational institutions, and 30 professional associations. Responses to the…

Several works have suggested that life proceeds in a pattern of developmental stages characterized by expansion during the early adult years and restriction, or withdrawal, after middle age. Postulating that self-concept might also be expected to reflect this curvilinear pattern of life stages, the author explored differences in adult self-concept…

This research memo provides a brief report of the status of women faculty and administrators in higher education based on three types of information collected in the NEA research biennial study of salaries in higher education in 1971-72. In addition to summarizing faculty salaries by sex, this memo reports the tenure status of faculty by sex and…

This preliminary summary report gives comparative data as to the salary and rank of Ithaca College fulltime faculty, with special regard to the status of women within that faculty. Data is based on all college comparison, comparison with humanities and sciences, WHealth, Physical Education, Recreation and music, comparisons within the Allied…

The occupational transferability of skills learned in school and on the job has been studied very little. This paper reports some estimates of the monetary trade-off between specialization and occupational flexibility in the Ph.D's choice of major at undergraduate and graduate school. These estimates are based for the most part on multiple…

This report, Comm-Bacc, examines the activity of graduates who received the baccalaureate degree in the academic year 1971-72 from the collegiate institutions of Pennsylvania. The focus concerned the condition of employment and nonemployment that existed in the late summer and early fall of 1972. Data were collected from the placement office at…

This paper briefly summarizes the validation and implementation of three CLEP examinations (humanities, social science/history, and natural sciences) that complement the placement and proficiency system of the University of Illinois. Three groups of juniors in fall 1971 who had completed specific distributional sequences that had satisfied general…

This study compared the effectiveness of a training procedure involving groups of elementary school students to an individualized training procedure, both of which utilized the Raven Learning Potential (LP) measure to assess improved performance. The development of a group training procedure using the Raven Progressive Matrices aimed at an…

To give teachers help in understanding themselves better and in relating more positively to their students, small discussion groups were organized to provide maximum opportunities for teachers to express thoughts and feelings about themselves and about problems they were facing in the classroom that prevented them from relating positively to their…

To clarify the role of new managers of affirmative action programs, a survey was conducted among 58 public institutions in the fall of 1973. These included 38 community colleges, 14 four-year institutions and six agricultural and technical schools throughout New York State. The study focused upon (1) whether the position of affirmative action…