Statistical data for 1983-84 are provided in this report concerning enrollments, finances, personnel, and services within Mississippi's 15 public junior college districts. After introductory material briefly provides an overview of the state's junior college system, the schedule of meetings of the Mississippi Public Junior Colleges Board of…

Measures of school achievement over a 4 year lag period in Virginia's 95 school districts were used to investigate the relationship of investment in education to student achievement since variations in spending among counties would have four years to affect student achievement levels. Because educational output is a function of selected…

As part of an evaluation of the Missouri master plan for higher education, changes affecting instructional programs in public four-year institutions in the state are reviewed for the period 1972-1982. Attention is directed to headcount enrollment and instructional programs, degrees conferred, new program development and degree productivity, and…

The movement toward school consolidation was triggered by James Bryant Conant's contention that larger schools are more efficient and offer more comprehensive programs. Many studies seem to support the claim that larger schools are cheaper to operate. Yet problems with these studies include wide variation in the minimum, optimum, and maximum sizes…

In 1977-78 and again in 1980-81, extensive evaluations of learning resource services at Lake-Sumter Community College (LSCC) were conducted to determine: (1) the extent to which the Learning Resource Center (LRC) contributes to the stated purpose of the college; (2) the extent to which it meets its own objectives; (3) the extent to which the LRC…

In accordance with legislative mandate, this annual report summarizes the activities of the Maryland State Board for Community Colleges and those of the state's 17 community colleges. After listing the members of the Board and the institutions, the report discusses the 2.6% rise in enrollments, changing student characteristics, and the findings of…

Increased educational resources at home and at school will improve student achievement, according to this study of third graders' reading and math scores in 384 New York State public schools. The factors tested included the school environment (teachers' years of experience and amount of graduate training, school size, the student-teacher ratio,…

A National Institute of Education-sponsored, congressionally mandated project studied impact of the 1976 Education Amendments on services to special needs populations. It was concluded that states were making considerable progress in serving needs of the handicapped, disadvantaged, and limited English-proficient. Room for improvement was found in…

This report is intended to help state governors, legislators, and educators as they address the problems related to funding education. It is based on the idea that policy-makers can profit from the learning experiences of other states. The first and longest section of the booklet consists of a three-part overview. The first part of the overview…

Research of 25 Michigan elementary and secondary public schools is used to test a model relating organizations' problem-solving adequacy to their available inputs or resources and to the appropriateness of their structures. Problems that all organizations must solve, to avoid disorganization or entropy, include (1) getting inputs and producing…

To help school administrators and others compare staffing patterns in their school systems with those in systems of a similar enrollment size and expenditure level, this report provides data on pupil-staff and teacher-staff ratios for individual positions and aggregate categories of professional personnel. The ratios analyzed in the report were…

Problems with the Information Exchange Procedures (IEP) developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems are discussed. IEP procedures analyze student records, faculty effort, and annual expenditures. The particular approach taken in the analysis of the student faculty relationship has important theoretical problems, is too…

Recent efforts at Georgetown University to formulate financial models to assist in staffing and allocation decisions are described. The analysis considers a departmental model that has been developed, a program model that is being designed, and the potential uses and misuses of the models. Both models use historical data and do not attempt to…

This digest summarizes and condenses some of the information about higher education in the United States from 1973-74 through 1977-78 provided by the U.S. Office of Education and other public and private educational organizations. Eleven tables are presented on the following topics: number of institutions and branch campuses, by type and control;…

School districts that survive declining enrollments will be the ones who recognize that the problem exists and build their programs and plans to meet the problem. It is necessary to know community demography and develop farsighted, actuarily sound projections of the effects. As money is basic to the problem, it is necessary to know the fiscal…