The focus of integrated colleges on black students with higher SAT scores is effecting a redistribution of behavior styles and personality characteristics that contributes critically to campus environments, and deprives Negro colleges of those students who could make a very positive contribution. (Author/JB)

This article describes a Court of Student Academic Appeals (Wichita State University) which was established to protect the student from arbitrary faculty behavior, and to assure a measure of protection for faculty if students use the civil courts to obtain their ends. (Author/CJ)

Whether they want to prevent upheaval by student revolt or, more importantly, increase the development of mature and responsible students, personnel workers must evaluate and quantify what they are trying to do, what means they are using, and what progress they are making. Operations analysis is an excellent technique for this. (Author)

First of a 2-part series concerned with: different types of inferential errors, single- vs. multi-institutional studies (MIS), longitudinal vs. cross-sectional data, statistical designs, measurement error effects, and measuring student-environment interaction effects. The best data is obtained from longitudinal MIS on student inputs and outputs,…

Evaluation of special small group experiences. Pre- and post-testing on College and University Environment Scales show differences in neither desired or expected direction. Indicates need for reexamination orientation programs. (CJ)

The instructional relevance of four educational philosophies--idealism, realism, experimentalism, and existentialism--to the undergraduate social work curriculum design and educational milieu is explored. The relationship of the problem-solving focus of experimentalism to social work intervention is discussed. (MSE)

The university characteristics most important for explaining differing rates of achievement for students of comparable precollege learning are examined. Library facilities, financial resources, curriculum design, student body attributes, and faculty quality are seen as factors having some effect on student learning. (MLW)

The ways that institutional researchers can analyze the political nature of their institutions and better understand the role institutional research plays in that environment are suggested. The major strength of an institutional research office is information and the analysis of information. (Author/MLW)

Reviews Peterson's 1979 study of the current and preferred ranking of 20 educational goals at 18 community colleges. In response to their low ranking, explains how community services are linked to three more highly rated goals: college community, personal development, and developmental/remedial education. (DML)

From an in-house survey of the strengths and weaknesses of the academic planning process at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio), areas of success and accomplishment emerged that can be applied to schools of education: (1) enhanced skills in program planning and evaluation; (2) adapting to change; (3) leadership capacities; (4) defining…

Used factors identified in the literature as predictors of centralization/decentralization as potential discriminating variables among several decision making configurations in university affiliated professional schools. The model developed from multiple discriminant analysis had reasonable success in classifying correctly only the decentralized…