College and university degrees conferred in New York State during 1972-73 are listed in tabular form. Figures highlight the type of degree, type of institution, sex of student, institutional classification, level of degree, field of study, and name of degree or certification. (MJM)

This two-part report is based on the official published resources received by the Secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Part 1 consists of two chapters. Chapter 1 deals with the qualitative aspects and the changes in teacher training and retraining at the primary and secondary levels introduced in the various…

This document presents a comprehensive picture of minority status in higher education. Part 1 presents background data on the proportion of minority groups in the country and in five selected states. Next, undergraduate enrollment data are presented, followed by graduate and professional school data. Finally, information on relationships between…

The university leavers project has three separate objectives: (1) to assess the feasibility of establishing a career guidance service for university students; (2) to find actual employment categories of earlier graduates so as to assist the manpower planners; and (3) to arrive at a qualifiable measurement of the contribution of the University of…

There are currently measures before the California Legislature that would make changes in: (1) the composition of the boards that govern the state's public institutions of higher education; (2) the selection process for board members; and (3) the length of terms. The Joint Committee on Postsecondary Education has conducted a survey to determine…

Several studies have attempted to hypothesize about the probable effects on student academic performance at the Commonwealth campus versus Unitersity Park freshman admission for the Pennsylvania State University. This report imposes a framework of predictive modelling on the data in order to derive some notion of the weight of variables in…

This publication is a comprehensive statistical report concerning higher education in Texas and provides supplementary material to the descriptive and summary information presented in the 1973 annual report of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System. The statistics relate to student enrollments, program development, and…

A series of tables is provided to identify the current tuition and fees structure of Rhode Island's public institutions of higher education: University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, and Rhode Island Junior College. These tables and tables showing tuition and fee structures among selected states provide the basis for a discussion of…

In the last decade, industrial arts departments have come to serve a comprehensive "industrial technology" function by giving greater attention to the technical aspects of industrial education. This comprehensive report focuses on current trends and conditions and likely future developments in industrial arts and industrial technology in the nine…

Drawing upon role theory, aging is defined as the patterned flow of individuals through a series of positions, roles, role sets, and position sets. From this perspective, the aging process is one of continual adaptation to transitions in social positions and associated role relationships. Data on the retirement transition are used to test and give…

A questionnaire survey of student attitudes toward correspondence study at three of five four year colleges in the state of Washington, conducted by the Office of Institutional Education Research of the University of Washington, using a format similar to its study of faculty attitudes in 1968, brought a response of 50% , which was augmented by a…

This monograph contains the second section, operations at the variable level, of a report of studies done in Helsinki, Finland, describing school achievement in terms of ability, trait, situational, and background variables. The report (1) investigates the structure of school achievement, (2) describes school achievement in terms of selected…

A knowledge test covering subject matter of the Beginning Sewing TV series was sent to 344 registrants following the series, to measure the program effectiveness. Although the response was small (38%), characteristics of the viewers were identified: median age of 44.1 years; married for 21.3 years, family size of 3.8, completion of an average of…

Procedures are presented for use in reporting costs for institutions of higher education in Illinois. Following the definition of various accounting functions, the scope of the cost and statistical report is delimited, and specifications are presented for the collection of data on students, courses, academic faculty records, and academic faculty…

An inventory of adult education offerings in high school districts in Pennsylvania produced a 75.8% return of questionnaires (449 districts) and provided information on the courses conducted by school districts by subject categories together with the number of school districts offering each course. Following are comments on the more important or…