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ERIC Number: ED379047
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1994-Nov
Pages: 21
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
Characteristics of Supplemental Vocational Education Students, Fall Term 1993. Research Report #94-06R.
Morris, Cathy; And Others
This report provides a demographic profile of fall 1993 supplemental vocational education students (SVES's) at Miami-Dade Community College, in Florida, or students enrolled in non-credit courses designed to upgrade job skills. The profile is based on registration forms completed by 7,584 SVES's and includes data on student age, ethnicity, gender, and residency for the college as a whole and for the North, Kendall, Wolfson, Medical Center, and Homestead campuses. Highlighted findings include the following: (1) campus-wide, SVES's accounted for 12% of the total enrollment; (2) 52% of the SVES's were at North Campus and 33% at Kendall; (3) the mean age of the SVES's was 37.6 years, compared to 26.1 for credit students and 33.2 for students pursuing vocational certificates; (4) 37% of the SVES's were over 40 years old, compared to 8% of credit students and 23% of vocational certificate students; (5) 32% were White non-Hispanic and 51% were male, while vocational certificate students were 35% Black non-Hispanic, and 60% female; (6) while only 28% of 14 to 20 year-old SVES's were male, 56% of those over 40 were male; (7) 50.7% of the Black SVES's were female, compared to 58% of Hispanics, and 40% of Whites; (8) North Campus enrolled 3,964 SVES's, representing 18% of its total enrollment, while Kendall enrolled 2,464 SVES's, 11% of its total; and (9) Wolfson Campus had 261 SVES's, 2% of its total, and Medical Center campus had 848 supplemental students, accounting for 18% of its total enrollment. (KP)
Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Miami-Dade Community Coll., FL. Office of Institutional Research.
Identifiers: Miami Dade Community College FL