Is it possible that the "unprecedented refusal of the campus community to carry on with academic work per usual" in May of 1970 had no significant effect on American higher education. The authors of the two studies in this report do not think so. Part one studies the national campus reaction to Cambodia and Kent State and part two…

This document presents four articles concerning content analysis. The first article reviews content analysis as a research tool for higher education. Content analysis, a research methodology eminently well-suited to legislation prediction, is examined in the second article. The third article, the characterization of American student dissent in…

The Kankakee, Illinois, school district investigated the causes of social conflict in the school district and developed a system of tension monitoring and reduction. Causes of tensions identified by the school district come under the headings institutional, instructional, and personal-interaction. The school's program for tension reduction, once…

This document reports the National Education Association (NEA) investigation of the student protests at Southern University, Baton Rouge in 1971. Sections I and II indicate the chronology of the conflict and the initiation, procedures, and scope of the NEA hearings and follow-up interviews on the University campus. In section V the NEA…

College administrators were asked to comment on press coverage of disturbances at colleges and universities and to suggest ways to improve coverage. Two samplings of their views took place, one in 1969 and one in 1971. All pertinent replies were content analyzed. The main charges were of improper balance, news distortion, and/or inaccurate…

This report contains the notes and elements for 6 lectures that were given by Victor de Pange, head of the Division for Higher Education and Research of the Council of Europe at the University of the Pacific during January of 1971. The first lecture was devoted to student protests, using the 1968 events as a starting point. It examines whether…

In its examination of the circumstances surrounding recent disorders and the closing of state colleges and universities in Ohio, the select committee held hearings at each institution, received testimony and exhibits from persons within and outside the academic community, and gathered information from studies conducted in other states. Directed to…

The present study was undertaken to clarify the relationship between 2 expressions of alienation, described as psychological alienation and activist political alienation, and to learn something of the characteristics of students who manifest these different expressions. Four general types of students are found in evidence. The first type are the…

Attacks on academic tenure are examined in light of current concerns about higher education in general and with respect to a predicted rise in faculty age in a period of reduced expansion. Two charges against tenure, nonresponsiveness and sloth, are selected because of the existence of empirocal evidence. Research studies on (1) faculty openness…

This paper presents a discussion and statistical data concerning the various sources of college impact on students. Student-administration, student-faculty, and student-student relationships are discussed and tables are presented that represent the attitudes of 372 college students from 2 liberal arts colleges toward these relationships. Also…

The academic community is recovering from recent shock waves of frequently violent student protest that challenged the traditional authority and even the basic purposes and structure of colleges and universities. The students were demanding reform in curriculum matters as well as in matters of educational administration. In this document a…

Student pressures for institutional change have become a major influence in American higher education and if colleges are to provide educational experiences appropriate to the particular students they attract, knowledge about the varieties of orientation and inclination of their students is important. The focus of this study was on the small…

After a review of the student protests of the past, it is predicted that: (1) student activism will continue to be a fact to reckon with; (2) visceral unrest will on occasion emerge but, in the U.S. at least, will seldom express itself violently; (3) student criticism of educational practices will be increasingly recognized as a valuable resource…

Some 350 American firms, with holdings worth approximately $1.7 billion, now operate in South Africa. American students want them to get out of the country. The author evaluates the net effects of such action, and considers how American corporations can improve the racial situation in South Africa. (Author/RK)

Focusing on the views of Ernie Peters, Phillip Deere, and Larry Leventhal which were considered by the authors as reflective and representative of the Longest Walk participants, this article also presented an "Affirmation of Sovereignty of the Indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere." (RTS)