Context: Surgical services are frequently unavailable in rural American communities. Therefore, rural residents often must travel long distances to receive surgical care. Rural hospitals commonly have difficulty providing surgical services despite potential economic benefits. Purpose: The purpose of this project was to identify the key challenges…

This report is organized around a series of tables that describe the characteristics of the student population of each institution in Oregon during the fall term of 1972. The data is organized into four sections corresponding to the four types of institutions: the State Department of Higher Education institutions; the independent and private…

The results of a 1977 assessment of the value of uniform financial data for the Oregon community college system are described. The utility of both programmatic data and auditable accounting data is also addressed. Business managers, presidents, and governing board chairmen at four community colleges and representatives of six different state…