Educational Research Information Center (ERIC) Trends are analyses of higher education literature contained in the ERIC database describing major concerns in institutional practice. Student demographics/characteristic/profiles, retention, and funding for college were the three most prevalent issues in the literature about students. However, it…

This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education, acknowledging its unique relationship to the expectations of the era and recognizing its particular type of adaptive activism. Linda Eisenmann illuminates the impact of this advocacy in the postwar era, identifying a link between women's activism during World War II…

Asking, Under what conditions and in what circumstances is student activism and protest likely to occur? What situational factors produce differing responses from students?'' this paper reports on the scope and intensity of university student unrest between 1964 and 1969 in 17 countries. (Author/JM)

In order to find out what black students are doing to survive on the predominantly white campus, questionnaires were mailed to a random sample of 140 colleges and universities; the individuals responding to the questionnaire ranged from undergraduate students to vice-presidents and provosts. (Author/JM)

Argues that the core of the Indians' problem is the inability of their community to achieve a sense of control over its own destiny, and explores ways in which the Indians can organize to gain the necessary internal cohesion, resources, and capabilities in order to create a satisfactory position within American society. (JM)

Outlines the problems that schools and students in Chicago have had in developing and maintaining a music education program. (RK)

Provides outlines, at both theoretical and applied levels, of appropriate curricular responses to high school student protest. (Author)

The author gives a candid report on his experiences while creating a new college. (AD)

There is much unrest among Mexican-American students in Los Angeles because the state has not adhered to the 1849 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo which says bilingual and bicultural education will be compulsory for Mexican-Americans. (Author/AF)

A discussion of the causes of student activism, and the possible ways in which educators in secondary schools are responding or can respond to the psychological being of their students. (Author/DR)

Expresses the view that more and more black students become alienated and will transform as a class into a revolutionary nationalist intelligentsia for the movement toward independent nationhood. (DM)