New challenges facing the institutional research profession are covered in these 1986 conference proceedings of the North East Association for Institutional Research. Paper titles and authors include: "Institutional Research at Mercer County Community College: The Changing Role in the Eighties" (F. L. Edwards); "Course Placement and Academic…

The circumstances preceding and following the 1984 merger of two small school districts in North Central New York State contained cooperation, controversy, and disharmony. The school districts had enough similarities--in their rural, agricultural base, in the pride and loyalty with which many residents viewed their schools, in the central role…

Funding, enrollments, and outcomes are reported for the programs offered duting 1981-82 by New York City Technical College's Division of Continuing Education and Extension Services. The report's introduction analyzes enrollment in the division and summarizes accomplishments and funding problems for selected programs. Subsequently, the report's…

This follow-up study of a 1979 survey of families involved in New York City's public day care program is based on field interviews with a random sample of 211 families in contact with the program in the past 4 years. Section 1 of this report describes the Agency for Child Development's day care programs for children from low-income working…

This Congressional report contains testimony given during the last of six days of hearings pertaining to reauthorization of the Older Americans Act of 1965. The focus of the day's hearings was on the insights of various administrators, advocates, and academics concerning the past, present, and future of the delivery of services to older adults…

Hong Kong's most recent education reform proposal is the "Consultation Document of the Working Party on Harmonisation of Pre-primary Services" ("Consultation Document".) This examines the feasibility of combining kindergarten and childcare centres and having one single body regulating them. It has stimulated great responses…

The College of Business at San Diego State University embarked on a pilot project to introduce an online version of its MBA program in the spring of 2000. The College of Business at SDSU is one of the largest in the nation, with over 6,000 enrolled students. The online MBA program was intended to complement the wide variety of on-campus programs…

Summarizing the results of the Minnesota Indian Education Hearings and the methods used to generate analysis of the transcripts for the State Board of Education and its subcommittee on Indian Education, this document presents tabular and narrative data re: content analysis; statewide findings; findings for each hearing site (Minneapolis, St. Paul,…

The document is a reference to laws enacted to amend the Social Security Act and to laws which directly affect the programs under that act. Intended for use by the Senate Finance Committee, the document supplements the "Compilation of the Social Security Laws," published periodically by the Social Security Administration. The reference…

Based on statistics for the fall of 1974, minority students at the university form a percentage of the total student body that is three times the national average at undergraduate and preprofessional levels of education, and twice that at the graduate level. The university has the highest minority enrollment percentage among major state…

A variety of linkage components that can help build and maintain effective relationships between the worlds of work and education are identified, and barriers to the development of such relationships and techniques for overcoming them are described in this report. The first section lists different forms of industry/education cooperation and their…

This report presents attempts to understand more about how six background characteristics (small scale, population sparsity, district isolation within a BOCES (Boards of Cooperative Educational Service), interaction between a change in enrollment and initial scale of the district, rapid changes in full value property wealth over time, and large…

Information about internationalizing undergraduate education is presented. Data gathered from the membership of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) provide a profile of the degree of internationalization of these institutions. Additionally, major means of internationalizing the curriculum and the institution are…

This guide is intended to help teachers, counselors, and other vocational educators to develop programs that increase access to vocational opportunities for females, minorities, disadvantaged, handicapped students, and students with special needs of limited English proficiency in Massachusetts. The guide is divided into four parts. Part 1,…

Western United States (characterized by low population density with small, scattered urban centers) underwent tremendous economic and population growth in the 1970's. The impact on small towns and rural areas included ecological damage and fewer permanent jobs than had been anticipated available to local persons. In spite of area growth, most…