Current practices in library and information science education are analyzed in terms of influences of educational externalities (academic affiliation, degree level, admission requirements, jurisdiction and accreditation, financing) and educational internalities (goals and objectives, course content, teachers, and training). Future trends and…

A Brigham Young University program using students to provide individual advising and orientation assistance to entering students, an effort to reduce the problem of students accepting admission and not showing up, is described and discussed. (MSE)

Discusses admissions policies, retention standards, degree requirements, and transfer credits as they relate to articulation between two- and four-year colleges. Addresses the historical mission of the junior college, the open-door policy, the transition from junior to community colleges, remediation, retention and transfer, and the importance of…

Questionnaires and interviews were used to study the selection of initial teacher training applicants at Scotland's 7 colleges of education, which handled 5,455 applications for 1,657 positions in 1982. Results showed diversity of selection approaches, uncertainty of purpose among selectors, and reliance on a short interview for assessing…

Trends in college entrance standards and student characteristics are analyzed and the relationship of applicant patterns to institution type are discussed. It is proposed that while the decisions being made in college admissions are affecting higher education, they are also remaking and reflecting changing American society. (MSE)

A survey of directors of admissions and chairpersons of departments of psychiatry in U.S. and Canadian medical schools was undertaken concerning problems of the identification of students with emotional problems prior to admission and the role of psychiatry faculty members on the admissions committee. (Author/MLW)

The question of whether or not the increase in law school minority enrollment is satisfactory is addressed. It is suggested that a recommitment to affirmative action is necessary to improve the percentage of minority law students, and that institutions must be willing to take a chance on the generally successful "high risk" applicants. (MSE)

This paper provides a model of optimal financial aid policies for a selective university. The model implies that the financial aid package to be offered to each category of admitted applicants depends on the elasticity of the fraction who accept offers of admission with respect to the financial aid package offered them. (Author/SSH)

It was learned through a special nontraditional adult student matriculation program in five British cities that only about half of the adult students' inquiries are followed up. Lack of confidence, financial problems, and personal circumstances deterred some, while others chose institutions and courses with simpler entry requirements. (MSE)

In the wake of the Supreme Court's 2003 decision upholding admissions preferences, affirmative action remains a deeply divisive issue. This tendency to frame the argument over preferences in terms of fundamental values is common to both sides of the debate. Because the nation's history with respect to race is so painful, the resulting argument is…

William E. Sedlacek--one of the nation's leading authorities on the topic of noncognitive assessment--challenges the use of the SAT and other standardized tests as the sole assessment tool for college and university admissions. In this book, Sedlacek presents a noncognitive assessment method that can be used in concert with the standardized tests.…

This new addition to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) library of international publications is a guide for United States admissions officers to the structure and content of the education system of Australia together with a formal set of placement recommendations based upon the author's research.…

This brochure is written for students considering graduate work in physics or related fields such as astronomy, biophysics, and applied physics. It also provides some information for physics undergraduates who plan on pursuing postbaccalaureate studies in the fields of engineering, medicine, law, and other professions that attract significant…

In a "Stanford Law Review" article, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) law professor Richard Sander claimed to statistically prove that affirmative action at American law schools actually depressed the number of African Americans who become lawyers by "mismatching" them at schools where they were in over their heads academically. This…

The admissions policies of 47 colleges and universities were studied to consider the issue of racial and ethnic discrimination in undergraduate admissions. The Center for Equal Opportunity asked schools for data about students' application status, racial and ethnic group membership, verbal and mathematics Scholastic Assessment Test scores, and…