Enrollment practitioners commonly discuss the effect of geographic factors on retention at rural or small-city institutions. This study examined the correlations between geographic characteristics of first-year college students' home location and their retention to the second year at a university located in a small city. The dimension of…

This article connects the theoretical perspective of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed with the teaching and learning styles of teachers and students at Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS) in East Harlem, New York. It examines some of the ways the Freireian model has worked within the public school system and considers some of the…

The research reported in this article was undertaken to determine the level of implementation of institutional repositories (IRs) at small institutions enrolling fewer than 10,000 students. The study analyzed quantitative and qualitative data from IRs at a number of small institutions with the aim of observing relevant patterns and trends that may…

The purpose of this article is to illuminate one researcher's experience in working with poetic representation while researching participants' perspectives of the transition from high school to college. Two integral points are discussed: (1) making the choice of using alternative representation--letting the data speak, and (2) the flow experience…

The mission of San Diego Met High School is to prepare students for college and the workforce through active learning, academic rigor, and community involvement in a small school setting. Because personalization is a key component of the school culture, advisories of 20-25 students work with the same teachers for all four years. Advisers, parents,…

A lack of recent research focused on field trips as pedagogy in K-12 settings established the foundation for this work. The research design followed multiple-case case study model. The participants were four male students from a small rural high school in central Texas. Each participant, previously labeled as academically "at-risk", had…

This case study of Aquinas College presents both the assets and the liabilities of a small college faced with the problem of survival. Emphasis is placed on the means by which Aquinas College dealt with the factors determining its future. Chapters cover the odds on the invisible colleges, the ordeal of change, new directions, an experiment that…

This paper reviews briefly the development and scope of Federal support programs to higher education which relate to the problems of the small college, and discusses in detail Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and Part E of the Education Professions Development Act. Weaknesses of proposals submitted last year for Title III funding are…

This document presents an outline of the processes used in compiling and annotating an approximately 560-entry bibliography dealing with the small college. The entries are comprised of books, articles, dissertations, and other studies published on the small college from 1965 through 1971. The actual bibliography is to be published soon by the…

Graduate school is a game for which students need to know the rules and in which students must be willing to play. It marks the end of undergraduate study and the beginning of entrance into a society of the elite. Some of the problems students usually encounter in graduate school are limited social life, adjustment to work loads, disparity between…

In the process of restructuring higher education to meet the needs of particular populations of students, we have also engineered a restoration of meaning and thus created the materials necessary to construct an appropriate sense of community in higher education. (Author/PG)

This document presents the keynote address of the final conference of the Management Information System Program of the Institute for Services to Education, held in Washington, D.C., February 21-22, 1974. The address, the educational enterprise and managing priorities to meet community needs, capsulized the contemporary strategies being applied by…

This document presents the proceedings of an invitational conference, held in Washington, D.C., February 21-22, 1974 concerning the dynamics of small college management. Discussion topics encompassed management information systems packages for small colleges. Various presentations discussed the Plantran System, the resource requirements prediction…

Advice to smaller schools about how to write a program on planned maintenance, develop a planned maintenance book format, use the book, and implement the program. (Author/MLF)