Although student support services are critically important for promoting better academic outcomes for students, many community colleges struggle to integrate these services with academic instruction. This summary describes a number of strategies developed to bridge the gap between student support services, particularly counseling and advising functions, and academic instruction in community col...

Previous studies argued that high school resources play a modest role in students’ postsecondary destinations, but they ignored schools’ programmatic resources, which provide opportunities for marks of distinction, such as Advanced Placement courses, and they focused on older cohorts of high school students who entered colleges before competition over admission to selective colleges intensified...

We study decentralized college admissions with uncertain student preferences. Colleges strategically admit students likely to be overlooked by competitors. Highly ranked students may receive fewer admissions or have a higher chance of receiving no admissions than those ranked below. When students’ attributes are multidimensional, colleges avoid head-on competition by placing excessive weight on...

ميلعتلا يف لامعلأا تافلم مادختسا روطت ،ةريخلأا دوقعلا للاخ ةساردلا يتلحرم يف اهمادختسا تمو راشتنلاا ةعساو حبصتل يبطلا تافلم نإ .ملاعلا ءاحنأ عيمج يف ايلعلا تاساردلاو ةيعمالجا قيثوتلا لئاسو نم ةليسوكو ملعتلا ةيلمع نم ءزج اهفصوب لامعلأا يتلاو رابكلل ملعتلا تايرظن للاخ نم ةميق ةادأك معدت ،مييقتلاو ملعتلا يف طارخنلالو اًيتاذ ملعتلا هيجوتل ينملعتلما ةجاح ىلع دكؤت ةيميلعت ةربخ رفوي لامعلأا تافللم حيحص...

OBJECTIVE Motor vehicle crashes involving alcohol are a major contributor to morbidity and mortality among college students in the United States. This study evaluates the effect on drinking and driving outcomes of the "A Matter of Degree" program, a campus-community coalition initiative to reduce college binge drinking. METHODS We used a quasi-experimental longitudinal study design that compa...

OBJECTIVES To determine adherence to dimensions of physical wellness among medical students of public and private medical colleges in Pakistan.   METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out from January to July 2011 among 820 students of private and public medical colleges in Karachi, Pakistan.   RESULTS Overall, medical students scored low in dimensions of physical wellness. Private...

An assessment is made of the distributive effects of state subsidies to undergraduate education in public universities and community colleges in Illinois during 1989. The main finding is that the existing system of public subsidy to undergraduate education favors lower-income and middle-income groups. Public subsidies lead to redistribution of income from higher-income to lower-income and middl...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the correlation and distribution of dental postgraduate residents, dentists and clinical training facilities in each prefecture to analyze the regional distribution and supply of dentists in Japan. The results were also compared with referential data for medicine. The coefficient of correlation between the dentist index and dental postgraduate resident ...

In Austria, Technical Colleges are those educational institutions that train and educate the skilled technical staff required by the Austrian labour market and the universities. These colleges have contributed a lot to Austria’s economic success and every year about 8,000 young engineers leave the technical schools to form a powerful work and study force. Therefore, it is particularly important...

Mushrooming of dental colleges in past few years in India has led to unemployment among Indian dentists. In 1966, the first dental college in the private sector was established. Before that, all the dental colleges in India were government-aided. Since then there has been marked an increase in number of dental colleges. Currently, there are 310 dental colleges in the country out of which 292 ar...