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Hutt, Rosemary – Medical Education, 1976
The research on the determinants of doctors' career choice in the United Kingdom is reviewed, areas in which more research is needed are emphasized, and an extensive list of references from which other researchers can start is provided. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution, Higher Education
MacFarland, Thomas W. – 2000
This report provides a comprehensive summary of the place of class attendance for students of Nova Southeastern University. Nova Southeastern University's main campus is located in Davie, Florida, and there are additional campus facilities at other locations in two Florida counties, as well as a variety of distance education modalities that offer…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Students, Distance Education, Enrollment

Newton, B. E. – Glossa, 1973
Based on work done in 1972 which was supported by a Canada Council Research Grant. (DD)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Geographic Distribution, Greek

Bennett, Don C. – Journal of Geography, 1970
Indigenous minority groups, both tribal and irridentist, are serious problems for the eleven nations of Southeast Asia. There are large differences, real and perceived, in the socio-economic status and government services received by these groups. With such groups, domestic political problems take on international significance. (NH)
Descriptors: Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Geographic Distribution, Government Role

Wunderman, Lorna E.; Steiber, Steven R. – Journal of Medical Education, 1983
Sixty-five percent of physicians entering their first professional positions leave the counties of their residencies, following a national migration trend to the Sun Belt. Most of these were in nonprimary care specialties and moved into self-employment or office-based practices, were disproportionately male, and moved to smaller urban or nonurban…
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Graduate Medical Students, Higher Education, Migration Patterns

Smith, Milton L. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1982
Analyzes the types, affiliations, and geographic distributions of private junior colleges during the 1970s. Reports declines in the number of private two-year institutions in every geographic region except the west, decreases among denominational colleges, and the most common change in status being from two- to four-year institutions. (DMM)
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Educational Trends, Geographic Distribution, Institutional Characteristics

Carline, Jan D.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1980
A study which compared two groups of students with respect to preferred medical specialties and practice location is reported. Factor analysis of the preferences indicated by three classes at the end of their second year of medical school identified interpretable clusters of specialties and location types. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Demography, Factor Analysis, Geographic Distribution

Kamphoefner, Walter D. – International Migration Review, 1994
Utilizes language data from the 1940 Census Public Law Sample to measure the socioeconomic impact of a foreign mother tongue by comparing second-generation Germans who grew up speaking German and English, respectively. Results show that the disadvantages of a foreign mother tongue proved to be negligible for this group. (GR)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Educational Background

Winsberg, Morton D. – Social Studies, 1992
Discusses the exchange of plants and animals that resulted from the contact between Europe and the Americas. Includes a table of percentages of the world's crops and animal populations in the western hemisphere. Describes the social disruption that resulted from the agricultural exchange by the spread of slavery and other exploitive labor…
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Agriculture, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Crops
Catanese, Anthony V. – Migration World Magazine, 1998
Uses 1990 U.S. Census data to show the changing demographic profile of Haitian Americans. Haitian Americans are likely to live along the Atlantic seaboard and to have relatively low, although not the lowest, incomes. However, the demographic mosaic of Haitian Americans is diverse, showing the effects of Haitian national and ethnic history. (SLD)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Cultural Background, Demography, Ethnicity
Selingo, Jeffrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998
Many colleges in New Jersey are opposed to the for-profit University of Phoenix plan to offer six degree programs within that state. The university currently enrolls 50,000 on 87 campuses in 13 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico and has formally applied for licensing in this and three other northeastern states. Thirteen colleges operate within a…
Descriptors: Certification, College Administration, College Planning, Competition
Alleman, Nathan F.; Stimpson, Racheal L.; Holly, L. Neal – State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2009
In the summer of 2008, the Commonwealth of Virginia was awarded a $1.1 million grant from the U. S. Department of Education. The College Access Challenge Grant Program (CACGP) is coordinated through the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). The focus of the grant is to increase student access to postsecondary education,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Program Development, Geographic Distribution
Peeters, Yvo J. D., Ed.; Williams, Colin H., Ed. – 1993
Papers from a conference on cartography in geolinguistics include: "The Political Importance of Visualisation of Language Contact" (Yvo J. D. Peeters); "Some Considerations on People and Boundaries" (Guy Heraud); "Geolinguistic Developments and Cartographic Problems" (Colin H. Williams, John E. Ambrose); "A…
Descriptors: Cartography, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution, Language Patterns

Warheit, George; And Others – Phylon, 1975
The purposes of this paper are: (1) to review briefly some of the research on racial attitudes in the United States over the past 45 years and (2) to present the findings of a study of racial attitudes in a south eastern county conducted during 1970 and 1971 as part of a five-year epidemiologic study of social psychiatric impairment in the south…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Geographic Distribution, Measurement Techniques

Roseman, Curtis C.; Knight, Prentice L., III – Professional Geographer, 1975
Examines characteristics of the residential movement of a sample of individual black households in both segregated and integrated neighborhoods in twelve large cities of the northern and western United States, reporting analyses of the process of adjustment to a new environment the "mover-stayer" concept, and the integration status of a migrant's…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Characteristics, Demography, Family Mobility