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Benjamin, Michael – 1986
This review offers a theoretical reformulation of student development useful for policy and research and critically assesses four bodies of theory for developmental models addressing the family, the individual, complex organizations, and the interaction between the individual and the environment, respectively. In each category several models are…
Descriptors: College Students, Colleges, Family Role, Foreign Countries
Benjamin, Michael – 1990
A study was done at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) examining the experiences, concerns and interests of college freshmen. Of 65 entering students who agreed to participate, 37 signed up for the study in September, 1988, with 24 women and 4 men completing all study requirements: completion of a daily diary; bimonthly unstructured…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Benjamin, Michael – 1988
In response to a gap in the literature on student development with respect to the role of the family, and anecdotal evidence that the family's influence on the college student's development is profound, a review of the relevant literature on higher education, social psychology, psychiatry, sociology of the family, and family therapy was…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Attendance, College Students, Colleges
Benjamin, Michael – 1988
This monograph presents a review of the literature on college residence life organized around an ecosystemic model and student development theory. This model distinguishes between events and processes at four levels: suprasystem (relationship between residence and university systems); macrosystem (residence hall); mesosystem (the hall floor); and…
Descriptors: College Housing, College Students, Colleges, Corridors