The study concludes that faculty and curriculum profiles are moderately consistent, are closely tied to psychological theory, are measured independently of student characteristics, are related in meaningful ways to other measures of the college environment, and appear to reveal differences in relative emphasis on various subject matter areas.…

To examine the 2-year college environment, 1969-70 catalogs for 94 2-year colleges were studied. The number of faculty, courses, and degrees in various fields were classified into six types--Realistic, Intellectual, Social, Conventional, Artistic, and Enterprising--based on Holland's theory of vocational choice. The resulting profiles were…

Compared to the United States labor force as a whole, blacks are overrepresented in social service careers and underrepresented in technical and executive careers. This study examined the possibility that the psychosocial environment provided by black colleges may help to cause or perpetuate the distribution of blacks among careers. The faculties…