This study examines characteristics of parents in most, moderate and least agreement with their collegiate children. The sample consisted of the parents of 354 undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). Eighty-one percent of the parents completed questions about their backgrounds, methods of influencing their…

This study looks at 282 urban citizens' attitudes about campus dissent, attitudes about the legitimacy of a campus disturbance, and their satisfaction with a University soon after a serious campus disturbance. A majority of urban citizens were satisfied with the University. Their beliefs about the University were heavily related to their…

This study examined the relationship between the occurence of job alienation and job satisfaction and the social characteristics found in student personnel offices and a student personnel coalition. The social characteristics of both the offices and the coalition were related to job alienation. (Author)

This study examines characteristics of parents who are in most, moderate, and least agreement with their college-attending (collegiate) children. Younger parents and those with smaller families perceived themselves as being more in agreement with their children. Parental methods of influencing children were related to frequency of agreement.…

This study describes the job goals and communication patterns of staff in a coalition of student personnel offices at a large urban university. The sample was comprised of 174 professional staff members in 15 different offices that are part of the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities).…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between the social characteristics of student personnel offices and a student personnel coalition with staff job alienation and job satisfaction. The population of the study was comprised of professional staff members in the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs at the…

This study examines the relationship between student causal attributions of student misconduct, their endorsement of university disciplinary actions, and acceptance of student misconduct as being justified. Students tended to endorse more punitive disciplinary action for behaviors they viewed as caused more by trait than by environmental factors.…

This study looks at the relationships between a number of personal and social characteristics of a random sample of 254 citizens from the Twin Cities and their satisfaction with a university. Participants were administered a questionnaire, the survey instrument. Results indicated most of the urban citizens had considerable University-related…