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Johnson, Terry R.; And Others – 1988
The results of a study of the market for university-based education programs for executives and managers is presented. Study objectives were to profile corporate use of various executive and management education programs, profile characteristics of university-based executive education programs currently offered, and identify trends and unmet needs…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business Administration Education, College Programs, Educational Assessment
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1989
In June 1989, a study was conducted to examine shifts in student demand for programs offered by Illinois community colleges, focusing on program enrollment and completion patterns from fiscal years 1985 through 1989. Four indicators of student demand were examined in the study. First, enrollments were analyzed in terms of the changes that took…
Descriptors: College Credits, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment, Educational Demand
Jonsen, Richard W. – 1978
The changes that small liberal arts colleges have undergone are discussed in this monograph in terms of their past, present, and future roles in society. The first section looks at these colleges in the colonial context and shows how they were altered by specialization, secularization, the rise of science and empirical research, and by an…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Educational Demand, Educational Economics
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Young, Kan Hua – 1974
This description of a methodology for examining the supply of educated manpower and the demand for their services consists of two major sections, which are devoted to the supply and demand of educated manpower respectively. In the first section, the supply of educated manpower and the demand for educational inputs are considered, the main…
Descriptors: College Role, Education, Educational Demand, Educational Responsibility
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Gordon, Margaret S. – Liberal Education, 1975
What was faced in 1971 and what is now faced in 1975 is a convergence of the impact of a recession and the effects of a long-run shift in the job market for college graduates. (Author/KE)
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Demand, Educational Supply
Gamson, Zelda F.; And Others – 1981
The origins and early history of a system of regional colleges in Israel are analyzed in the context of an emerging postsecondary system, based on the work of John Meyer and others who look at the institutional side of organization. It is argued that the terms used to define legitimacy, as well as who defines it, are crucial issues in the…
Descriptors: College Role, Educational Demand, Educational Development, Educational History
Health Resources Administration (DHHS/PHS), Hyattsville Md. Office of Graduate Medical Education. – 1980
The Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee's (GMENAC) report on the present and future supply and requirements of physicians by specialty and geographic location is provided. Part I presents a listing of Panel recommendations and options for addressing the problem, while Part II presents an introduction to this report. Part III…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational Demand, Foreign Students, Futures (of Society)
Braun, Shepard – 1979
University education in Alberta during the next two decades is addressed in relation to the increasing in-migration and uncertain participation. Although Alberta has the highest rate of net population gain among all provinces due to in-migration, it is not clear how many of the 18-24-year-old cohort will be job-seekers rather than potential…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Demography, Educational Demand, Employment Projections
Kennedy, William R. – 1980
As more emphasis is placed upon institutional research that provides information relating to long-term strategic planning, as well as to short-term operational considerations, program evaluation techniques that merely analyze past or current budget and enrollment statistics will become increasingly inadequate. Such techniques are based on data…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Decision Making
KOULOURIANOS, DIMITRI TH. – 1967
THE PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS OF EDUCATION AS AN ECONOMIC GOOD ARE EXAMINED. THE LITERATURE ON THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF EDUCATION, THE DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO EDUCATIONAL PLANNING, AND THE MATHEMATICAL MODELS PROPOSED FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE ANALYZED. THESE APPROACHES ARE SYNTHESIZED TO OBTAIN A COMPREHENSIVE ESTIMATE OF THE DEMAND FOR EDUCATION. THE…
Descriptors: Costs, Economic Development, Economics, Educational Benefits
Burmeister, Klaus H. – 1979
Educational bureaucracies are inherently resistant to change. However, the emerging pluralistic philosophy in Canada requires innovation and creativity. Public demands for the integration of multiculturalism into the educational mainstream conflict with the bureaucratic resistance to change and result in a disequilibrium which in turn causes still…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Change Strategies
Kotesky, Art – 1979
A telephone survey was undertaken of a random sample of 75 Hispanic-American family groups in Elgin, Illinois. The purpose was to learn the educational needs and characteristics of this and the large Hispanic-American group it represents in the community. Preferred courses were elicited, and the preferred method of instruction was in English with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges, Community Education
Cross, K. Patricia – 1979
Current trends in higher education, specifically those related to the changing characteristics of students and the impact of those changes on colleges and universities, are addressed. Three distinct trends contributing to the changing characteristics of college students are: the decline of 18-year-olds in the population, the rising proportion of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, College Students
Great Cities Research Council, Chicago, IL. – 1968
Western High School in Washington D. C. first opened its doors in 1890. It is still a structurally sound building but cannot, as it is presently designed, hope to fulfill the educational programs of the 1970's. Demands for change have come from students, faculty, parents, and the community at large. As envisaged, the new program would be an…
Descriptors: Architectural Programing, Athletic Fields, Cluster Grouping, Educational Demand
Franchak, Stephen J., Ed. – 1976
A compilation of 21 presentations given at a symposium held to improve communications between individuals and agencies (education, government and private industry) which produce or use occupational research and information for program planning and decisionmaking contains the following titles: Some Thoughts on Economic Illiteracy; We Can Survive:…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Economic Research, Educational Benefits, Educational Demand
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