DOCUMENT RESUME ED 343 470 HE 025 333 AUTHOR Robbins, Rebecca L., Ed. TITLE The REA 1992 Almanac of Higher Education. INSTITUTION National Education Association, Washington, D.C. REPORT NO ISSN-0743-670X PUB DATE 92 NOTE 182p. AVAILABLE FROMNational Education Association, 1201 16th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036. PUB TYPE Books (010) -- Statistical Data (110) -- Reference Materials - General (1301 EDRS PRICE MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Availai)le from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *College Faculty; Court Litigation; *Educational Finance; *Educational Trends; Endowment Funds; *Enrollment; Faculty Evaluation; Faculty Fellowships; Faculty Integration; Federal Aid; Federal Legislation; *Higher Education; Meetings; Minority Groups; Politics of Education; Scholarly Journals; State Aid; Teacher Attitudes IDENTIFIERS Higher Education Act 1965; *National Education Association; Pell Grant Program ABSTRACT This publication presents 1992 higher education and National Education Association (NEA) facts and statistics, updatinc what appeared in earlier editions and including for *he first time tables from three recent studies on faculty. The book arranges information in four sections. The first, "The Academy: A Statistical Profile," covers highel education enrollments, endowments, state and federal appropriations, and current trends in the receipt of undergraduate and graduate degrees. Included here are data on faculty perceptions and new information on faculty evaluations and diversity. The second section, "Review of the Year," offers a look at educational, political, judicial, and extra-curricular developments over the past year as well as a selected listing of new publications in the area of higher education. The third section, "Resources and References," lists forthcoming academic meetings, higher education journals and reference aids, and fellowship sources for higher education faculty. The final section, "NEA and Higher Education," includes an essay on the history of the association, NEA policy and advisory statements, the legislative program, the current financial crisis in higher education, and various aspects of NEA functioning (the Standing Committee on Higher Education, journal, membership and benefits, and bargaining units). 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Washington, DC q0036 Keith Geiger, President Robert Chase, Vice-President Marilyn Monahan, Seci etary-Treasurer Don Cameron, Executive Director The NEA Almanac of Higher Education is published by NEA Publishing. Director: Sam Pizzigati. Editor: Rebecca L. Robbins.Production: Barbara Bohrer. Subscriptions for the NEA Almanac of Higher Education, Thought and Artion, and the NEA Higher Education Advocate are free to NEA members in higher education. Libraries and other institutions can subscribe to NEA higher education publications as a package for $30 annually. Copyright 1992 by the National Education Association. All rights reserved. ISSN 0743-670X. eir.e4-'14 3 Contents INTRODUCTION THE ACADEMY: A STATISTICAL PROFILE 5 Enrollments: Continue to Rise for 1991-92 College Enrollments: Diversification and Slight Increase Expected 7 State College Enrollments: Down, With California, New York Highest 8 Bachelor's Degrees: Business and Management Lead Way in '88-'89 Master's Demos: Education Continues As Fastest-Growing Field II Doctoral Degrees: Women Show 6.5 Percent Increase in '88-89 12 First Profeesional Degrees: Up elightly From '87-'88 13 Full-time Faculty: Student Evaluations Used Most Often 14 Part-time Faculty: Departmental Evaluation Considered Important 15 Faculty Interests: The Research vs Teaching Conflict Faculty Demands: Increasing Expectations To Publish 17 Faculty Diversity: Most Ethnic Faculty Found in Engineering 18 Faculty Diversity: Ethnic Part-time Faculty in Health, Social Sciences 19 Faculty Salaries: Rate of Increase Very Slight 20 Faculty Salaries: Bargaining Differential Over $5,100 21 Endowments: Harvard Holds Top Poaition 24 State Higher Education Appropriations: Down in Three States 27 Federal Higher Education Appropriations: Slight Increase 29 REVIEW OF THE YEAR 81 Campus Trends 1991 Highlights 82 A Higher Education Chronology, '90-'91 se Higher Education Legislation, '90-'91 44 Supreme Court Decisions: '90-'91 Term 47 NAIA.and NCAA Team Competition Winners 49 Higher Education Books: A Selected Bibliography RESOURCES AND REFERENCES 69 Forthcoming Academic Meetings, 1992 70 Higher Education Journals, Reference Aids 76 Fellowship St urtes for Higher Education Faculty 99 NEA AND HIGHER EDUCATION 117 Higher Education: The Roots of NEA, 1857.1991 118 Higher Education Reform: NEA Policy Statements 127 Higher Education Reform: NEA Advisory Statement 146 NEA Resolutions, Legislative Program 150 The Financial Crisis in Higher Education 160 NEA Standing Committee on Higher Education 167 NEA Membership and Benefits 168 The NEA Higher Education Journal 172 The National Council for Higher Education 178 NEA Hi.fier Education Bargaining Units 175 5 THE 1992 ALMANACOFHIGHER EDUCAMON Intmc &Mon The NEA Almanac of Higher Education began publication in 1985 as the first yearly reference guide to include a collection of higher education facts and statistics for faculty and staff. This 1992 edition continues our tradition of providing quality and useful information for all NEA members working in institutions of higher education. The NBA 1992 Almanac of Higher Education updates a wide array of information that has appeared in previous editions, including everything from hihaer education statistics to the actions taken by NEA policy-making bodies. This year, we have added several interesting tables from the two new national studies on faculty released this year: The American College Thacher: National Norms for the 1989-90 HERI Faculty Survey and Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, 1990. We've also included new information from the U.S. Department of Education's 1988 National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty. The 1992 Almanac leads with a statistical section that covers higher education enrollments, endowments, state and federal appro- priations, and current trends in the receipt of undergraduate and graduate degrees. This section also provides information on faculty perceptions and new information on faculty evaluations and diver- sity. Our "Review of the Year" section offers a look at educational, political, judicial, and extra-curricular developments over the past year. This section also features a selected listing of new publications in the area of higher education. Lists of forthcoming academic meetings, higher education jour- nals and reference aids, and fellowship sources comprise our third section of the 1992 Almanac. These lists neatly cover the "three legs" of the academic stool: research, teaching, and community service. Our final section begins with a look at the history of NEA higher education. Veteran NEA staffer Donald J. Keck provides an 6 4 NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION interestingand perhaps surprisingdiscussion of the involvement of higher education representatives in the initial activity of NEA. NEA, of course, continues to be active in lobbying for quality and equality in higher education. Much of the political emphasis in 1991 focused on the reauthorization the Higher Education Act. NEA representatives, including President Keith Geiger, have testified before Congress several times to demand increases in student assistance, improvement ;n teacher education, financial assistance to middle-income students, and the changing of the Pell Grant program to an entitlement initiative. As always, we hope you'll find the information in the NEA 1992 Almanac of Higher Education useful. We look forward to receiving any comments or suggestions you may have for future issues of the Almanac. Rebecca L. Robbins, editor 7 The Academ A Statistical Profte NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Enrollments: Continue lb Rise For 1991-92 Student enrollment in the nation is expected to total 60.9 million students this year, up by nearly 1.1 million froma year ago. Of that number, about 46.8 million young people will attend elementwy and secondary schools, over 600,000 more than ayear ago. Some 14.1 million are expected to enroll in public and private colleges and universities, an increase of more than 600,000 students from fall 1990. Enrollment in educational institutions, by level of instniction and by type of control: Fall lento fall 1991(in thousands) Level of instruction Fall Fall Fall Fall and type of control 1981 1985 1989 19911 Elementary and secondary schools2 II II II 45,622 44,979 45,881 46,841 Public 40,022 39,422 40,526 41,575 Private 6,500 5,6571 5,355 6,267 Kindergarten through grade 83 31,370 31,226 33,320 34,313 Public 27,270 27,030 29,158 30,186 Private 4,100 4,1951