Product Description: The study presents data from 29 colleges and universities about their policies and plans for Chinese international student recruitment. The report gives detailed information on spending on overall marketing to reach Chinese students, as well as on particular marketing vehicles such as social media and other internet sales platforms, international student fair attendance, use of recruitment agents, partnerships and other means of recruiting students from China...read more

Product Description: The study gives data from 28 mostly research oriented higher education institutions about their information literacy efforts in the use of grants and funding databases such as PIVOT, grants.gov, SPIN and the Foundation Directory Online, among many others...read more

Product Description: The study presents data and commentary from 55 institutions that manage digital image collections, including museums, historical societies, botanic gardens, churches colleges and universities, government agencies and others. The study looks at a broad range of issues in cataloging, findability, marketing, revenue generation, technology use, rights, digitization, staffing, budgets, access, preservation, image collection building and many other issues of interest to administrators of large digital image collections...read more

Product Description: This nearly 400 page report gives highly detailed data on the use by academic librarians of Google and its profuse apps and features. The study gives detailed data on use of Google Scholar, Google Books, Notifications, Forms, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Alerts, Google+ and dozens of other features...read more

Product Description: The study, based on data from 62 public libraries in the United States, presents data and commentary on the film & video collection plans of public libraries in the USA. Readers will find data on the size and growth rates of video collections, spending on film and video, the percentage of films and other videos that are donated or purchased used, the type and number of titles for which libraries maintain multiple copies, favorite CD’s, revenue data on income from overdue fines for film and video, earning from public screenings of films in the library (or outside the library but for the library) and much more...read more

Product Description: The 149-page study presents data from 51 North American colleges and universities about their mental health services. The benchmarking study helps its readers to answer questions such as: what are overall budgets for college mental health services and are they rising or falling? How long are therapeutic sessions and what limits do services place on their number and duration? What are manpower requirements and how are they met? What percentage of students seeking help are using psychiatric medications? What percentage are referred to outside services? How effective are triage techniques in dealing with a surge in students seeking help? What are the most commonly perceived mental health problems? How significant a problem are bipolar disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, and sexual abuse, among other problems and conditions? The report details the many ways that college mental health services are coping with an influx of students, how they are marketing their services and monitoring students in trouble...read more

Product Description: The study looks closely at how college administrators in admission, marketing, enrollment management, public relations and other marketing-oriented departments are using surveying and online survey tools to improve performance. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: what is the role of online survey tools in college marketing and public relations? What services are colleges using and how much are they spending? How much do they spend on traditional market research and surveying services and to what extent have they been replaced by use of online survey tools? Which populations are being surveyed the most and how have colleges benefited? What percentage and types of surveys are done by phone, by mail, in-person or online? How much has surveying increased or decreased in recent years? How are surveys archived and accessed and by whom? Just a few of the report’s many findings are that: · 75% of private colleges in the sample had a paid subscription to Surveymonkey...read more

Product Description: The study looks closely at how 37 academic libraries are serving students in MOOCS, blended and distance learning programs and how they plan to serve them in the future. The report helps its readers to answer questions such as: What role is the library playing in the development of online courses? Does the library assist in content development and if so to what extent? Does the library play a role in the licensing of copyright videos and other content and what role exactly? How much is being spent on these resources? What resources in terms of manpower and budgets are libraries committing to distance/blended learning students? How are colleges serving students in MOOCS? What kind of information literacy requirements exist for students in distance and blended learning? How are these students taught? What is the role of video and online tutorials? The study looks at a range of many other issues such as marketing library services to distance learning students, the uses of social media, the library presence on the course management system, the uses of eBooks, and many other issues...read more

Product Description: The 115-page study looks closely at how 45 colleges develop internships in the public and private sector for their students. The report helps its readers to answer questions such as: how many colleges are developing internships for students and how many students are taking them? In what field are students interning? How many are in government agencies? Non-Profits? Private companies? Which companies and which colleges have exemplary programs? What percentage of internships are paid? How many hours per week do they typically require? What are the best strategies for recruiting institutions to participate in college internship program? How much staff time are colleges devoting to these programs? What are their plans for them in the future? Just a few of the report’s many findings are that: The colleges in the sample offered a median of internships from 100 institutions in the past year...read more