The report focuses on the demographic characteristics, employment characteristics, workload, productivity, compensation, and attitudes of full-time instructional faculty teaching humanities at 4-year institutions of higher education in the fall of 1992. Data tables cover the humanities generally and specific program areas of English and…

This bulletin reports the findings from a 1987 nationwide school survey of arts and humanities instruction conducted by Westat, Inc. for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. (The data are representative of approximately 15,250 operating school districts in the United States, 75% of which have…

This survey examined trends in enrollments in undergraduate humanities courses. The survey gathered information from 481 (out of 494) colleges and universities about course offerings and enrollment in fall 1988 for full-time and part-time undergraduate students in six subjects: English and American literature, foreign languages and literatures,…

This study was undertaken to obtain reliable national estimates of enrollments of undergraduates in humanities courses and to assess changes in enrollments from 1980 to 1985. The survey collected data from a sample of 453 (out of 493) colleges and universities on enrollment figures for full-time and part-time undergraduate students in eight…

Patterns of courses completed by high school students versus courses completed by college and postsecondary vocational/technical students were examined. Data were from the High School and Beyond Study, including the 1982 high school transcripte and 1987 postsecondary transcripts for 1980 high school sophomores. Students who graduated from high…