The State Council of Higher Education presents its annual report on head-count and fulltime-equivalent students enrolled for credit in Virginia's state-controlled institutions of higher education. Figures and tables are presented summarizing student enrollments for individual institutions by type of institution (2-year and 4-year), and for all…

The need for management tools in higher education is very real. This report attempts to provide the budgeting process at the University of San Francisco (SFU) with modified regression student credit-hour estimates for fiscal year 1974-75 management and fiscal year 1975-76 budget planning. Further, this report presents a new mathematical ratio for…

This report describes a test of the robustness of factor-analytic methods in the face of various types of scale transformations on the data. Because of the complexities that would be involved in an exact analytical investigation, the tests were done with simulated sets of data having different factor structures. After factor analyzing the original…

In the last decade, the number of people receiving Teachers Insurance Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) retirement income has more than doubled, rising from 16,700 in 1963 to nearly 37,500 in 1972. Under these circumstances questions arise as to what changes, if any, educational institutions and TIAA-CREF might…

This paper summarizes the progress of the review of enrollment made by the New York State Regents. The analysis and projections in this paper are limited to full-time, undergraduate, degree-credit enrollment. Detailed data concerning historical trends and projections are contained in the appendix to this paper. The paper attempts to focus on two…

In late 1973, the CUNY Office of Program and Policy Research requested the distribution of grades, by department, from the 4-year colleges of the City University of New York for spring 1972. Tables included in this report cover: percentage of superior and failing grades by department and by subject area of the senior colleges of CUNY, the colleges…

This document presents the report of the Task Force on Corrections and the Higher Education System in Wisconsin. Following introductory material, recommendations are suggested concerning jail programs, programs with inmates and staff within existing institutions, halfway houses, university structure and programs, preventive measures, and funding.…

The fourth quarter Bureau of Labor statistics show an improvement in the employment situation for Vietnam veterans, including employment for Negro and other minority races. The unemployment rate for newly discharged veterans is still slightly higher than that for nonveterans, but the rate for age group (20-24 and 25-30) is decreasing as a result…

This survey of institutional goals of 12 Montana postsecondary institutions in one of several projects undertaken by the Commission on Post-Secondary Education to gather information on current practices and attitudes among various college constituencies. In this study, a total of 2,600 Montanans--student, faculty, administrators, trustees, and…

Today, with development of computerized data banks, there is an increased quantity of stored information that has relevance to problems far beyond the scope of the original study for which the data were developed. The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the major data available and their sources. It is hoped that by describing some of…

This report presents the results of the 10th national biennial Survey of Corporate Support of Higher Education. Survey findings indicate: (1) There was a pronounced upturn in corporate support of education between 1970 and 1972. (2) Among 19 industries, ten reported increased dollar support of education between 1970 and 1972, while nine industries…

This report, prepared by the staff of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs of the U. S. Senate, is intended as a profile of the "half-full, half-empty plate which the Federal food programs represent to the nation's poor." The report focuses on various aspects of poverty and hunger such as: (1) poverty in the nation--the poverty line,…

A census of migrants residing in camps and housing facilities in 8 western New York State counties was conducted in 1968. A sample data form was sent to each known grower or owner before meeting with them. Where meetings could not be arranged, information was pieced together from other sources and reported as an estimate. Information for each…

Trends in numbers and distribution of the older pupulation, on a state by state basis, are given. The data are broken down into the total older population and the older Negro pupulation. Figures are also broken down by sex and by two age groups - 45 through 64 and 65 and over. (CK)

Vital rate estimates for Canadian Registered Indians were presented in this paper. The population under age one in a particular year becomes the population one year old the following year. When this information was examined for 10 years, it was found that there was an increase in survivors from year to year, and that there were inconsistencies…