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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 504
Sponsoring Agency: National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
Ford Foundation, New York, NY.Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Environment, Educational Demand, Educational Economics, Educational Supply, Family Income, Higher Education, Input Output Analysis, Labor Utilization, Models, Postsecondary Education, Statistical Analysis, Student Characteristics, Student Costs, Trend Analysis
مستخلص: At a time when planning becomes more and more essential for American colleges and universities, precise and accurate information about them becomes critical. This document reports on some sophisticated statistical measurements of certain aspects of the supply and demand for students, places for them to attend college, and faculty members to teach them. Models are constructed to demonstrate the application of their procedures to the econometric analysis of: (1) the demand for freshman places by potential students as a function of costs of attendance, student family income, student academic ability, and other traits; (2) the relationship between student-faculty ratios and institutional characteristics; and (3) the stocks of educated persons, by age, sex, highest degree, and field of specialization. Presented to illustrate the use of qualitative models for policy making are: (1) alternative forecasts of the demand for new Ph.D.'s on college faculties; (2) estimates of human financial resources requirements of alternative programs to provide two years of college for everyone; and (3) estimates of the impact on higher education of significant compensatory education programs in primary and secondary schools. This analysis demonstrates not only that rather widely differing results can be obtained, but also that a number of different assumptions are quite plausible in attacking problems of estimating future developments in higher education. (Author/KE)
Journal Code: RIEMAY1976
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المؤلفون: Astin, Alexander W., Lee, Calvin, B. T., Carnegie Commission on Higher Education , Berkeley, CA.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 154
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Environment, College Role, Higher Education, Private Colleges, Student Experience
مستخلص: The "invisible" colleges - private, often church-affiliated institutions with relatively open admissions policies and enrollments under 2,500 - comprise one-third of the four-year colleges in the United States and enroll almost 500,000 students. The author believes that only these colleges can offer their particular students the kind of college experience they seek. (MJM)
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المؤلفون: Peterson, Richard E., Bilorusky, John A., Carnegie Commission on Higher Education , Berkeley, CA.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 186
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, College Environment, College Students, Higher Education, Political Attitudes, Student Attitudes
مصطلحات جغرافية: California (Berkeley)
مستخلص: Is it possible that the "unprecedented refusal of the campus community to carry on with academic work per usual" in May of 1970 had no significant effect on American higher education. The authors of the two studies in this report do not think so. Part one studies the national campus reaction to Cambodia and Kent State and part two examines the reconstituting of university and society based on the implications of the Berkeley situation. (MJM)
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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 325
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Bound Students, College Choice, College Environment, Decision Making, Higher Education
مستخلص: In conflict with some widely held convictions, the authors conclude that the proximity of a college has little effect for most youth on the likelihood of going to college, regardless of the type of institution. (MJM)
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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 133
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Environment, College Role, College Students, Higher Education
مستخلص: American higher education today includes between 450 and 600 colleges and universities with roots in Protestant Christianity. The subject of this profile is what that orientation means for their character and environment, and how it influences their student and alumni. (MJM)
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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 159
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Higher Education, Occupational Aspiration, Socioeconomic Status, Student Experience
مستخلص: This study of the college experience and its effects on the students' occupation, life style, and social and political values. Chapters cover the problems in assessing impact, who goes to college, the impact of the college experience, higher education and economic behavior, some effects on life-style, mass media usage by the college graduate, and political behavior. (MJM)
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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 380
Descriptors: College Environment, College Role, Comparative Education, Educational Finance, Enrollment Trends, Equal Education, Expenditures, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, International Relations
مصطلحات جغرافية: Australia, Canada, France, India, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom (Great Britain), USSR, West Germany
مستخلص: In each of the countries studied in this report, colleges and universities have been adapted to national conditions, customs, social structures, and political systems; but familiar trends are visible. Among the most important trends are rapid enrollment growth and a movement toward universal access; rising expenditures; increasing public support; greater involvement in society and diversification to the extent that universities are no longer the central institutions of postsecondary education. The nine countries studied include Great Britain, France, Canada, Australia, Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, Japan, Soviet Union, and India. (MJM)
