This is the report from a national sample of institutions for basic facts on campus unrest during the last academic year. (Editor/HS)

Longitudinal relationships between protest participation and attitude toward the female role are examined in data from a 1967-71 national panel of college students. No evidence is found for expected three-variable interactions involving gender, sex-role attitude, and protest participation. These findings suggest a need for reinterpretation of…

Administrative characteristics for 301 nationally representative institutions are related to faculty support of activism (in attitude and in behavior) and indicate that faculty may provide the link between the incidence of campus unrest and institutional characteristics, independent of student body attributes. The consistently observed…

In May of 1972 the Higher Education Panel (HEP) of the American Council on Education conducted a survey of colleges and universities across the U.S. to determine the type and amount of campus disruption caused by the April 1972 increased bombing effort in North Vietnam by the U.S. It was found that: (1) an estimated 27% of the colleges and…

This report contains statistical information on: (1) demographic and background characteristics of American college and university faculty, by sex, 1969: (2) professional background and academic activity, by sex, 1969: (3) attitudes of college faculty toward education, faculty, and the profession, by sex, 1969: (4) faculty political preferences…

For the past four years, the American Council on Education has carried out a large-scale annual survey of entering college freshmen. For the last 3 years (1967-1969), questions were asked regarding student attitudes toward various campus and social issues including: (1) the campus, the student, and the role of science; (2) the family and…

Student protests during 1968 and 1969 were most prevalent at large universities, non-sectarian, 4-year colleges, and institutions that accept only students with high average ability and achievement levels. These and other institutional characteristics were found to be linked with campus unrest in a survey of a national sample of 427 institutions.…

The findings to date of a three year study conducted by the American Council on Education imply that some institutions attract, recruit, retain, and encourage faculty who are themselves activists or who approve of activism. Other possible causes of campus unrest are also being investigated. (Author/DB)

At the end of the 1968-1969 academic year, a survey was undertaken to determine the nature and extent of campus protests, how their frequency and types vary, how institutional responses to them differ, what institutional policies and practices have been changed because of them, and other related matters. The survey instrument was a questionnaire…

The results suggest that the impersonal environments of the large universities may be inherently conducive to the development of disruptive protest, and particularly of protest that involves violence. Furthermore, the large institutions appear to be less responsive than smaller colleges to such protest. (Author)