Statistical data are presented on the attitudes, opinions, and participation patterns of 291 Alabama public health workers involved during the 1967-68 in statewide professional continuing education programs. Reactions to program components (instructional television, study manuals, group discussion sessions) and specific topics are summarized. Item…

This report contains statistical information on Kentucky public institutions of higher education and includes data on: (1) enrollment and general fund appropriations 1959-60 through 1969-70 by institution and in toto; (2) total resident and non-resident student enrollment, and resident and non-resident enrollment by institution and by…

In a sample survey in November of 1969, the U.S. Bureau of Census found that approximately 9.2 million persons living in the 50 states of the United States and the District of Columbia identified themselves as being of Spanish origin. Three characteristics--Spanish origin, mother tongue, and language usually spoken at home--were used to identify…

Narrative and statistical data that emerged from a research study of costs and South Dakota Higher Education are presented. The report is concerned with an analysis of the most significant characteristics of costs in South Dakota colleges and universities and related data. Research includes data on seven state controlled colleges and universities…

This is the sixth year that an attempt has been made to bring together information of interest to deans of engineering for use in planning. Special attention has been focused on direct instructional costs, nonacademic personnel costs, regular nonsalaried operational costs, space rations, and student-faculty ratios. Only general comparisons for the…

The first national course by newspaper entitled "America and the Future of Man" was offered by the University of California, San Diego extension, beginning in September 1973. A series of 20 articles by distinguished scholars appeared weekly in 263 newspapers. A total of 4,974 persons enrolled in the course for credit through 188…

Twenty-nine institutions of higher education operating in Nebraska in the fall term of 1972 were surveyed with regard to enrollment statistics. Statistics indicate by county and institutions the head-count enrollments by type of institution, academic level, counties of origin, size of 1967 county 12th grade enrollment, regions, and states.…

This study is the sixth in a series of reports on salary schedules in effect at institutions of higher education that grant the 4-year bachelor's or higher degree. The information given here is derived from the salary schedules supplied by the 4-year institutions in connection with the 1971-72 survey, Salaries Paid and Salary-Related Practices in…

This digest summarizes and condenses some of the information about higher education in the United States provided by the U. S. Office of Education and other public and private educational organizations. Eleven tables with accompanying texts cover areas of higher education: number of institutions, enrollment, public/private ratios, 4-year/2-year…

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…