To assess student characteristics and learn about the perceptions of college life of entering students and other representative groups of students and faculty, the Four College Study of Institutional Development within the State University of New York was conducted using the College and University Environmental Scale (CUES) and College Student…

Pace's College and University Environment Scales (CUES) fails to consider the interdependency of the individual and his environment. A random sample of students (A) and two samples of general psychology students (B) and (C) were used to determine the legitimacy of CUES claims of freedom from: (1) sampling bias, and (2) correlation with individual…

The College and Environment Scales Survey (CUES) was administered during the winter of 1973 to students who had completed at least four quarters at the University of California (UC) Irvine campus. The survey, designed to investigate the students' perception of the atmosphere of the campus, dealt with such campus conditions as the levels of…

The College and University Environment Scales and an anonymous questionnaire were administered to measure environmental perceptions and personal drug use. Differences were found in the way the environmental press was perceived on the awareness, community, and scholarship scales. (Author)

College and University Environments Scales (CUES), an instrument for characterizing the perceived atmosphere of institutions of higher education, was published by the Educational Testing Service in 1963. CUES is probably the most widely used instrument for describing college environments. The purposes of this study were to: (1) provide more…

The College and Environment Scales Survey (CUES) was administered during the winter of 1973 to students who had completed at least four quarters at the University of California (UC) Irvine campus. This report indicated student perceptions of the atmosphere of the campus according to the resident or nonresident status of the student. Emphasis is…

Both the Institutional Functioning Inventory (IFI) and the College and University Scales (CUES) are self-study and evaluation instruments. Because the IFI is concerned primarily with dimensions of interest to faculty, while CUES reflects aspects of campus life more important to students, these two measures are frequently used together to obtain a…

The CUES was used to compare perceptions of Anglo- and Mexican-American students. Significant differences showed that Mexican-Americans perceived a concern for etiquette and politeness and a demand for intellectual exertion. Directional differences suggested that Mexican-Americans were not as comfortable in the environment and were not as…

Alternative scoring methods yield essentially the same information, including scale intercorrelations and validity. Reasons for preferring the traditional psychometric scoring technique are offered. (Author/AG)

The research literature is full of studies about attitudes of black students toward white students and vice versa, but more often such studies lack generalizable measures and contain methodological problems. This study was concerned with a standardized measure of university student perceptions and expectations (College and University Environment…

Community colleges must recognize the differences in the perceptions of the college environment by high school counselors, community college counselors, and community college students when planning high school visits and disseminating information. The instrument used to test the extent of the differences was the College and University Environment…

This study seeks to determine transfer students' perceptions of the college environment and to demonstrate a positive effect on their perceptions of the environmental press by means of a group-counseling procedure. Forty-six transfer students were given the College and University Environmental Scales, second edition (CUES II), which was designed…