Three separate but similar questionnaires were mailed to faculty advisors, to secondary education majors, and to nonsecondary education majors in the College of Education and Allied Professions at Bowling Green State University. The majority of each group identified assistance with courses and scheduling at the advisors' most important function.…

Student characteristics related to out-of-class interactions with faculty were studied. Interviews with 26 undergraduate students focused on the following topics: students' college and life goals, interpersonal relationships, relationships with faculty, undergraduate activities, self-image, approach to education, and feelings about college. A…

Discusses the need for college administrators and student personnel workers to pursue the goal of making higher education institutions places which contribute fundamentally to the growth, development and fulfillment of the individuals involved with them. (EJT)

Describes an orientation program established to aid returning women students over the age of 25. The program's purpose is to acquaint women with the facilities of the school and to discover the needs and problems of women returning to school. (EJT)

This article examines the relationship between blacks and the college environment. Emphasis is placed on declining enrollment, financial problems, and lack of blacks in the fields of science and the professions. Black colleges are offered as part of the solution for blacks who cannot afford the high-cost predominately white institutions. (DE)

It was found that a strong desire to leave the state of Connecticut was a major force in black students attending out of state colleges and universities. Other contributory factors included the Connecticut schools lengthy admissions evaluations, the structure of some compensatory education programs, a non-competitive financial aid program and the…

The nature and use of LISREL (LInear Structural RELationships) analysis are considered, including an examination of college students' commitment to a university. LISREL is a fairly new causal analysis technique that has broad application in the social sciences and that employs structural equation estimation. The application examined in this paper…

How different institutions conceive of and construct knowledge is examined by delineating how they enact their conception of knowledge through curriculum. The contention of Burton Clark and others that disciplinary activity is primarily responsible for fomenting knowledge production is argued. It is suggested that institutions have a more powerful…

This paper offers an overview of a comprehensive program for the educational and vocational counseling of university freshmen. The program, now in operation in University College, The Ohio State University, has evolved out of a need to provide quality services to great numbers of students. Effective methods have been developed to assist students…

College athletic programs are too professionally organized to retain their amateur status, the essence of which is participant oriented. Because intercollegiate athletics is at least partly a commercial entertainment and of financial benefit to the sponsoring institution, athletes should be considered "workers." Physical and emotional…

Heightened efficiency in higher education has led to declining commitment to student needs for personal development. Contributing institutional factors include over-emphasis on system efficiency, pride in physical facilities, status needs, obsession with management and accountability, lack of interaction between learner and educator, emphasis on…

THIS STUDY OF 1030 (10 PERCENT) OF THE UNIVERSITY-ELIGIBLE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES (1961) COMPARES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 612 GOING TO ONE OF THE FIVE UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES AND THE 418 GOING TO JUNIOR COLLEGE. HIGH SCHOOL AND FIRST-SEMESTER COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS AS WELL AS APTITUDE SCORES WERE AVAILABLE FOR MOST OF THEM, AND 885 RETURNED A 136-ITEM…

This booklet reports a conference concerning Canadian university problems, roles and priorities attended by leading Canadian, US and British administrators and faculty. Each of 6 presentations is followed by 2 or 3 critiques. The purposes of the conference were to assess the state of higher education in Canada and to identify the areas that…

During the last decade, there has been growing interest and research in environmental assessment. One environment that has received special attention is the university environment. Since environments are seen to relate to a person's growth and development, it follows that environments that maximize the match between students' needs, goals, and…

The charge of the Commission on Tests was to undertake a thorough and critical review of the College Board's testing functions in American education, to consider possibilities for fundamental changes in the present College Board tests and their use, and to make recommendations to the Board based on its conclusions. After reviewing current…