04-12-2008

hdl:1902.4/USPAF1998-EDUC

This survey covers the following issues and topics: Colleges in state job performance (1); importance of college education today (1); academic standards at colleges today (1); paying for a college education (3); motivation/preparation of today's college students (1); return of college education (1); adequacy of skills of college graduates to succeed in world of work (1); design of college curricula (1); biggest problem facing colleges today (1); seriousness of problems for colleges (16); views on college education (10); extent of problems with state's colleges (1); colleges teaching what is important (1); quality of recent college graduates (1); opportunity of groups to get a college education (4); view on college-education workers in state (1); parents belief that it is critical for children to graduate from college (1); more benefit from college education (2); number of college graduates in the U.S. (2); increase of nation's proportion of minority college students (2); handling college applicants lacking necessary skills (1); college dropout (2); views of higher education system (10); importance of goals to a college education (10); colleges dealing with minority racial/ethnic numbers (1); favor/oppose action towards helping lower costs of attending college (5); government reliance on ways to make college education affordable (4); improvement of higher education (9); changes to higher education (4); public colleges (1); impact of technology on higher education (2); tenure system (5); college job performance (1).

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008, "Public Agenda Foundation Poll # 1998-EDUC: Taking Responsibility--Leaders’ Expectations of Higher Education"

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

Harvard University

SCR:011273

DataVerse

Dataverse Network Project

SCR:001997