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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED218992 AUTHOR: Martin, Mary P., Ed.; Staman, E. Michael, Ed.


TITLE: The Practice of Institutional Research. Proceedings
of a Joint Conference of the Southern Association for
Institutional Research and the North Carolina Association
for Institutional Research (Charlotte, North Carolina,
October 29-30, 1981).

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1981
NOTE: 102 p.
AVAILABILITY: Southern Association for Institutional
Research, ADM 214, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
33620.

ABSTRACT: Proceedings of a 1981 joint conference sponsored
by the Southern Association for Institutional Research
(SAIR) and the North Carolina Association for Institutional
Research are presented. The conference theme was the
practice of institutional research. Contents include
preconference workshop reports, speeches, abstracts of
papers, and reports of SAIR affairs. Documents and authors
are as follows: "Nouns, Numbers and Neutrality" (keynote
address, Jeffrey Holmes); "Role of National, Regional and
State AIR Groups in Enclosing Professional Development"
(panel report); "Research in Questions of Equity and
Discrimination" (panel report); "Executive Order 11246 and
Institutional Research" (William Fendley, Jr.); "Faculty
Salary Sex Equity Studies at a Major Research University"
(Rodney G. Hurley, Marilyn K. Brown, Frank A. Schmidtlein);
"Testing Equity in Salary and Workload at Your Institution"
(Gerald W. McLaughlin, James R. Montgomery); "Student
Evaluation of Graduate Programs in Selected Southern
Universities" (Carol A. Kayla, Virginia Eman Wheeless,
Richard D. Howard); "A Markov Chain Application to College
Admission Policy" (Robert M. Ussery); "Development of a
Planning, Budgeting, and Evaluation Model" (Thomas R.
Cochran, Nathaniel L. Felder); "Measurement of Quality in
Off-Campus Credit Programs: A Non-Intrusive Approach by a
State Agency" (Albert Lynd, Randall R. Powell); "Policy
Impact Analysis: Implications for Institutional Research"
(James L. Morrison); and "Modeling with Microcomputers" (R.
Gregory Litaker). Additional topics include: planning and
management information systems, statewide institutional
research, and students/attrition/demographics. (SW)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Accountability-; Affirmative-Action;
College-Faculty; College-Planning; Cost-Effectiveness;
Educational-Assessment; Factor-Analysis; Faculty-Workload;
Higher-Education; Males-; Multivariate-Analysis;
Professional-Associations; Student-Attrition; Student
Characteristics; Women-Faculty
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Institutional-Research; *Management
Information-Systems; *Research-Methodology; *Sex
Discrimination; *Statewide-Planning; *Teacher-Salaries

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