This report presents a comprehensive description of seniors graduating from a broad cross-section of colleges, both public and private, with predominantly black student enrollment. Results of a questionnaire administered to seniors enrolled during their freshman and sopomore years in an innovative curriculum program (Thirteen-College Curriculum…

This document surveys the matters to which boards of trustees address themselves and analyzes the degree and detail of attention devoted to various types of decisions in a broad array of subject classifications. The research concentrated on the boards of four-year institutions of public (state)higher education. It employed a nonreactive…

Surveying the Japanese educational research and development system, this paper contains information on education agencies, research institutes, and universities and colleges. The keystone of the Japanese system is the Ministry of Education, from which most authority and funds derive. Its activities include gathering and publishing statistics,…

The role of the agricultural extension worker as intermediary between farmer and scientist is studied using the Chaffee and McLeod coorientation model. It is found that the extension workers' cognitions fall between those of farmers and scientists in terms of agreement, understanding, congruency, and accuracy, as predicted. The subjects in the…

This report presents a detailed analysis of the food facilities at the University of Alberta. Emphasis is placed on the three main supplies of food: the peak production of cafeterias at meal times, the snack facilities, and vending machines. Study results indicate: (1) extensive use of the students' union building cafeterias; (2) reported use of…

This study defines key elements of the instructional environment at Memphis State University perceives and analyzes student and faculty assessments of this environment, and determines the extent of significant patterns of similarity or dissimilarity in the views expressed. Data were collected by a review of related research literature and…

This study examines the effectiveness of biographical inventory data as a predictor of college performance particularly among the disadvantaged where current college entrance procedures provide less than a satisfactory alternative. The sample consisted of 1,640 students of which 982 were in special admissions programs, 554 were regular admission…

Questionnaires sent to every institution of higher education in Illinois examined the status of women. Responses from 93 institutions indicated the position of women in Illinois institutions of higher education was deteriorating at an ever-increasing rate. The pattern of employment places most men in three professional ranks and over half in the…

This report presents empirical data in support of the behavioral, demand-oriented theory of Ph.D. production. A close examination of the Ph.D. curricula of the English, Economics, and Chemistry departments at Berkeley, chosen as representative of the extremes of departmental behavior, demonstrates that requirements do differ substantially and in a…

This study investigates the resource allocation problem of faculty hiring and promotion patterns using the techniques of optimal control theory. The mathematical structure of an academic faculty is described by a linear dynamic model whose parameters were estimated from actual data by two different techniques. The principal characteristics of the…

The authors develop a model of undergraduate student attendance that relies on five parameters, one of these being a parameter of total work, w, required to complete the degree. An enrollment forecasting method consistent with these attendance patterns is developed and compared with data for the period, 1961-1966, and a cohort of 2126 and 3298…

This report examines the educational experiences and progress of freshmen who are 20 years of age or older at the time of matriculation. Data were obtained from questionnaire responses of a sample consisting of 18,848 first-time full-time freshmen in fall 1967 and a subsample of 63,510 students in 1971. Data indicated: (1) Only 5% of the entering…

This report examines the educational progress of low-income college students. The sample consisted of 185,845 first-time full-time freshmen in fall 1967 and a subsample consisted of 63,510 students in 1971. Results of the questionnaires indicated: (1) Low-income students were not distributed randomly among institutions. (2) The proportion of…

This document summarizes information about attrition, graduation, and graduation with honors at Hollins and other College Research Center (CRC) member colleges; calls attention to the fact that increasing percentages of entering freshmen are saying that the chances of their transferring to another college are "very good"; examines the…

This study evaluated through a mail questionnaire the relevancy of the home economics and related courses as perceived by a stratified proportionate random sampling of 297 home economics graduates of 1968 through 1972 from three Arizona universities. The home economics graduates appeared to find most of their courses relevant to the development of…