This document presents findings and recommendations of a resource group charged with providing background information and recommendations concerning enrollment for consideration in the development of a master plan for higher education in Connecticut. The resource group feels that public postsecondary institutions should serve the entire community…

Eleven graphs present information on status and trends in Alaska in terms of number of public high school graduates, statewide enrollment, expenditures per pupil, local assistance, pupil-staff ratio, transportation, rural school enrollment, correspondence study, school lunch programs, average salaries of professional school personnel, and…

The College Board sponsored a series of 5 conferences in 5 southwestern cities for educators in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas from 31 July through 4 August, 1972. The conferences were held in Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, Albuquerque, and Austin. The purpose of the conferences was to explore ways to bring about improvements in…

This document contains a listing of schools of nursing and public health throughout the U. S. that offer professional nurse traineeships for full-time academic study. The institutions are listed by state, and the address of the institutions accompanies the listing. Also included is information on the type of program or programs offered by the…

There are many obstacles to assessing the impact of "new" or disadvantaged students enrolled in community colleges; minority students and staff often oppose such assessments, the conditions and problems in quantifying measurements are difficult to control, and it is difficult to separate and assess interrelated conditions and events…

This analysis of the family financial circumstances of students attending New Jersey's colleges and universities is the result of data collected in a mailed survey to approximately 25,000 undergraduate students enrolled in the states. Some findings are that: (1) New Jersey college students from different family financial circumstances are…

Six Arizona county libraries were chosen to participate in a study to investigate the effect of grants on local library funding support. The criteria set for choice of these libraries were: (1) the county library must be the strongest library in the county, (2) the library must have been chartered as a county library for at least three years prior…

This study describes a cost-effective approach to school resource allocations. It combines the cost and production function results in order to determine where cutbacks can be made, how resources should be relocated, whether certain resources should be increased, and whether certain changes need to be of large magnitude in order to be effective.…

A needs assessment of the library services of the Lake Agassiz region of North Dakota was begun in 1974. A mail survey of the area population and an in-library user survey were conducted. Almost all libraries in the region fell below state standards on holdings primarily because the population base was inadequate to support 11 municipal libraries.…

This annual report of the recently established Alaska Day Care Assistance Program describes the system of state subsidies instituted to encourage local government participation in the delivery of day care services. Established to aid low-income families in providing for adequate child care, the program is administered by the state Department of…

This paper summarizes the purposes, history, and funding history of the curriculum development program which is Part I of the Vocational Education Amendments, describes the major categories of the program effort, and offers recommendations for the future of the program. Problems in career development and management at the national level which have…

The appendixes to the evaluation of Victoria, Australia's secondary school libraries include lists of the 33 schools visited to gather information and of the interviewees. The names of the 132 high schools with Commonwealth libraries are given with the dates of their openings and maps showing their locations. Copies of survey instruments used to…

This report presents a summary of the results and tabulated data obtained from the 1975 Survey of Graduate Science Student Support and Postdoctorals conducted annually by the National Science Foundation. Data from 7,664 science and engineering departments of 248 graduate schools and 104 medical schools are included. Highlights include: graduate…

The purpose of the veterans' survey was to aid Services for Returning Students (SRS) in the planning and operating of veterans' programs at the University of Texas at Austin. This report represents an initial step in assembling a profile of the U.T. Austin veteran. Sixty-five (43%) of the 150 surveys mailed out to U.T. veterans were returned. The…

Traces postsecondary education financing from 1950 to 1972 and discusses the capacity and responsibility of various levels of government and the private sector to provide such funds. A series of tables present statistical data on trends in the economy and in public spending for postsecondary education. (Author/JG)