In articles on student unrest, there is a great tendency to oversimplify the issues and to assume that the components and stakes are the same from Minnesota to Czechoslovakia. To understand this complex phenomenon, the following questions should be answered: How many different problems, of what orders of magnitude and intensity, need to be…

This study explored the extent of negative attitudes toward success among housewives by means of objective and projective tests. Since married women with families constitute the majority of women over 25, the authors found it important to determine how prevalent negative attitudes toward personal achievement in women were among them. Fifty-three…

The Political World Interview asks the adolescent to imagine a group of people going to a new island where they must set up laws and a government. The interview then probes their reasoning by raising a series of hypothetical proposals and rules. For example, one item asks if the government should require all people to go to church. Designed to tap…

This report presents interpretive summaries of legislative actions in 9 western states. The states are: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington. The first section gives a regional roundup of 1970 legislative action on such issues as campus conduct, constitutional revision, higher education studies,…

This report discusses 2 studies that examine reaction to the killing of 4 students by National Guardsmen at Kent State University, Ohio, on May 4, 1970. The first study was designed to investigate the segmentation of the public in terms of its reaction to the Kent State incident. Three groups, or attitudinal types: radicalized students, tolerant,…

To help bridge the gap between student services and student complaints, some 30 colleges and universities are experimenting with a new concept in higher education called the ombudsman. Their objective is to defuse explosive student attitudes stemming from irritation with the institution by providing, in addition to the normal channels of…

Activist students have made a positive impact on several areas of higher education. (1) Activist campaigns have revealed deficiencies in institutional governance and pointed out many undemocratic methods, structures and processes. (2) Activism has led to increased participation by students in policy and decision making. (3) With increased student…

PREP-15, a review and annotated bibliography, focuses on the topic of "Student Participation in Academic Governance." A related document compiled by the authors at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education is ED 038 786. This is the first PREP presentation of material from an ERIC Clearinghouse product and it is anticipated that similar…

A sample of 769 students (male and female, black and white), enrolled in natural science, mathematics, business, and remedial reading classes at an urban community college were studied to explore the relationship (1) between racially militant beliefs of black (and white) college students and beliefs they hold about the control of their environment…

Some studies conducted by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) have revealed possible causes of the uprisings on college and university campuses, and others suggest possible remedies for the agony experienced at many institutions. A survey of 5,200 college and university trustees shows that the ambivalence in their beliefs and attitudes, and the…

This report summarizes the responses of 234 certificated personnel at Los Angeles City College who completed a questionnaire regarding campus incidents during a student strike, March 10-14, 1969. Responses are grouped by sex and length of stay of the respondent. Included are the following areas of concern: (1) extent of class interruption, (2)…

America is experiencing its most rapid change over, and it is necessary that this change be contained in a meaningful way. The main thrust of our recent changes has been in the direction of an erosion of belief in the American dream on the part of college students and ghetto residents. If the heart of the American experience is to be…

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…

Chapter 1 of this report discusses the role of student activism in the history of American higher education, including the origins of student activism at Harvard in 1638, the emergence of social awareness in the first part of the twentieth century, the emergence of black consciousness in the sixties, and the role of the SDS and the transition from…

The objective of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Change in the Four-Year College was to provide a setting where college administrators, faculty members, and graduate students could come to study the possibilities for change in their institutions. The focus of the Institute was to develop knowledge on the part of the participants, that is,…