This report contains fiscal year (FY) 1997 data on compensation received by employees in the 49 public community colleges in the Illinois Community College System. Data tables are first provided on contractual base salaries for full-time faculty; salary rates for part-time faculty, full-time faculty overload, and summer term; salary schedules for…

Designed to aid in the development of goals and objectives for California's City College of San Francisco (CCSF), this atlas provides data on student outcomes, institutional finances, and other accountability information for 1993-94 through 1995-96, with longitudinal data included where available. Following a brief introduction and the CCSF…

This study of faculty stress used data from the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey administrated in the 1992-93 academic year. The total data set includes survey information from more than 43,000 faculty at nearly 300 higher education institutions in the United States. For this study, data for 29,064 full-time teaching faculty were…

Huddersfield University Library (England) has undertaken a wide range of evaluative studies of its services and systems, using various data collection techniques such as: user surveys; exit interviews; online and CD-ROM analysis; benchmarking; user groups; staffing and staff development evaluation; suggestion sheets; student project work; group…

This statistical profile provides a comprehensive resource for citizens, parents, educators, legislators, researchers, and others who want facts about education in South Dakota. South Dakota has 177 school districts, with 774 schools. Fifty percent of these schools have 100 students or fewer, and only 7% have more than 500 students. The 1995-96…

This report contains numerous figures and tables providing data about the Montana University System. The report is divided into 11 sections, with some preceded by a brief text summary, followed by data tables and figures. Sections cover: (1) total funds, (2) state appropriated funds, (3) funding sources, (4) enrollment, (5) employment, (6) state…

This report contains data tables covering six major categories: Category 1, "Preparation of Enrolled Freshmen, Fall 1994," includes data on American College Testing scores and high school ranking; in Category 2, "Access," data are provided for tuition and required fees and financial aid, including data on trends and grant and…

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care is an ongoing, prospective, 3-year longitudinal study of over 1,300 full-term healthy infants and families from 10 sites across the United States. While the sample is not nationally representative, the subjects come from major regions of the country: the…

This study used a logistic probability model to investigate the effects of variables relating student characteristics and institutional factors on the decision to apply to a large land-grant research university. The study used the entire data set from American College Testing (ACT) program test-takers in the fall of 1995 and institutional data on…

This report contains recommendations for changes to New York's Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) to be considered during the 1997 legislative session. It outlines the principal options addressed by the task force, the historical context of the TAP, and the cost of meeting full tuition and non-tuition allowances through state and federal grants and…

Data were gathered and analyzed in fall 1994 on the use of residence hall facilities at all New York state operated colleges with residence halls, and these data were also analyzed for trends in comparison with data since 1985. Twenty-six institutions were surveyed. Findings included the following: (1) total utilization of residence hall…

Drawn from college data submitted on 1994-95 actual cost allocation schedules, this report provides information on district and statewide program costs for the Wisconsin Technical College System. A brief introduction reviews actual unit costs and ratios for headcount enrollments and full-time equivalent (FTE) students, indicating that the total…

This report presents results of a survey of 354 Economic and Medical Field Services (EMFS) division social workers in Washington State. The survey investigated their needs for graduate level academic credit from professional training provided by Western Washington University (WWU), as well as matters of credit utility and institutional and…

This study investigates technology use in education in K-12 schools and the status of preservice education for teachers in terms of familiarity with technology (i.e., computers, videodiscs, CD-ROMs, and VCRs) through an analysis of articles written within the last five years. A brief introduction contains a statement of the problem and discussions…

In an effort to examine student transfer behavior from Oakton College (OC) in Des Plaines, Illinois, to public universities in the state, OC obtained from the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), a dataset of all students who received a bachelor's degree from an Illinois public university between 1980 and 1988, and then matched social…