This reference manual is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to demographic data from the Census Bureau and is specifically designed for use by instructors participating in the Census Bureau college curriculum support project. The purpose of the manual is to provide an appropriate and up-to-date starting point for the new or…

Salaries, wages, and fringe benefits of faculty, administrators, and general service workers who are employed in higher education are examined from a public interest point of view. The report is divided into three major parts. Chapter II presents an overview of the whole report including a summary of findings, conclusions, and recommendations. The…

Expansion in the South for providing professional education in medicine, veterinary medicine, and law was undertaken to extend access to desirable professionals to young people and to increase the supply of needed professionals in underserved areas. How these objectives have been met is analyzed from an economist's perspective by relating supply…

The Response to Educational Needs Project (RENP) is a federally supported compensatory education program. In this paper the following questions are addressed: (1) Is the Response to Educational Needs Project (RENP) worth Federal support? (2) Would the Federal government be better able to achieve similar educational objectives by supporting other…

An examination of the collective bargaining guidelines developed in Florida's 1975 enabling legislation and of the personnel policies and procedures contained in institutional documents from eight Florida community colleges was conducted, and other pertinent literature was reviewed, in order to identify potential areas for assessing impact of the…

Based upon data derived from U.S. Office of Education biennial reports, this pamphlet presents statistical information on the changing status of the one-teacher school (1918-36) for purposes of determining the extent to which these schools have been eliminated, the rate of that elimination in recent years, and the trends of the future.…

The benefits and problems of comparing faculty salaries are evaluated. The primary source of information for this evaluation is the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP's) summer Bulletin. The problems listed include: (1) institutional variations in the methodology of data collection; (2) the conversion of 12-month salaries to a…

A 1968 study by Warren W. Willingham of the accessibility of higher education in the United States was replicated in Georgia in 1976. Some significant methodological problems occurred in attempting complete replication. The Georgia study resulted in interpretations of accessibility for 1968 that differ from the Willingham study. It also revealed…

This segment of the national evaluation study of the Follow Through Planned Variation Model discusses findings of analyses of achievement test data which have been adjusted to take into consideration the preschool experience of children in three Follow Through cohorts. These analyses serve as a supplement to analyses presented in Volume IV-A of…

A study was conducted of three key availability characteristics of material at the University of California (UC), Berkeley library system: (1) status of materials, (2) time required to obtain them, and (3) their location. These characteristics were examined in light of interlibrary loan criteria set forth in a major report on library cooperation…

A study was conducted at Indiana University's WFIU-FM, a student operated training radio station; two measuring methods were utilized: (1) a listening diary, and (2) an audience-programer. This study attempted to accurately survey the listening habits and programing preference of listeners and nonlisteners and also to develop, test, and evaluate…

A survey to elicit data on R&D expenditures of state government agencies for fiscal years 1972 and 1973 is covered in this document. In 1973 total R&D expenditures by all sectors of the economy were $30,427 million. The R&D expenditures of State government agencies amounted to 0.9 percent of this total. Expenditures of state government agencies to…

This document presents a consolidated enrollment report for all institutions of higher education in Montana. Data are presented for: total full-time and part-time enrollment, net class distribution, new students transfered from other universities or colleges and schools, geographic distribution of students, nonresident students, resident and…

The document includes tables and graphs showing trends in enrollments (Section 1), expenditures (Section 2), and teachers (Section 3) for the United States and outlying areas. Statistical information was derived from annual reports published by the Division of Vocational and Technical Education and unpublished data compiled by the Program Support…

A study was made of library services in the Kiamichi Economic Development District of Oklahoma (KEDDO). Since six of the seven counties in the district belonged to the Chocktaw Nation Multi-County Library System (CNMCLS), particular attention was given to the seventh county, Pushmataha. The population, socioeconomic factors, transportation system,…