In order to have recent graduates respond to requests for funds and volunteer support, it is thought that the "alumni habit" should start with current students. Many institutions have organized alumni relations projects. Eight college and university student-alumni programs are described, including Clemson, Cornell, Northwestern, Yale, Michigan,…

Using aggregated data from each of four classical rankings of graduate programs in U.S. universities, it was found that the rankings of institutions in separate studies correlate significantly with each other and the results from the SDR model correlate significantly with the objective measures of academic honors, basic research, and research and…

Examines how a university clinic can provide a portion of a school psychology student's practicum experiences. Advantages include providing a broader base of experience than the public schools and intensive doctoral-level supervision. Discusses the need for practicum experiences that expose students to a variety of situations. (Author)

Describes four parts of a college composition program--the apprentice segment and the segments for future teachers, for students who need to discover in writing the self and the non-self, and for remedial students--and examines the processes of writing. (GT)

The "Healthy Life-styles" course at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln uses both short-term assignments, designed to reinforce the cognitive principles of physical education, and long-term "contracts," which utilize those health concepts as catalysts toward beneficial behavior modifications. (LH)

Recruitment and retention of students are reasons many institutions are reevaluating career assistance provided to students. Research discussed reviews career decisions encountered by students, and administrative and program assistance for career decision making. A variety of programs, based on research and evaluation of students, seems to be the…

In what has become a major new trend in adult education, community colleges, seeking to attract new students, have started labor studies courses. Unions often support the programs and pay for members to attend but the programs are controlled by the colleges. Focus is on such a program at Manhattan Community College. (JMD)

Cooperative links need to be forged among broadcasting, educational technology, and business programs on campuses if institutions of higher education are to assume a position of leadership in preparing graduates for the corresponding developing markets. (Author/CMV)

A force analysis of the variables that affect the future of higher education suggests that higher education will probably increase its undergraduate emphasis on student development. Some actions that student personnel administrators can take to increase that emphasis are suggested. (Author)

Presents results of a national survey of institutions offering college level aerospace studies. Primary survey concern is the availability of nontraditional aerospace education programs; however, information pertaining to institution characteristics, program characteristics, and staffing are also included. (SL)

Reviews actions by government agencies, courts and private agencies, having to do with racial and sexual discrimination in education, school integration, discrimination in teacher salaries, affirmative action to increase the number of professional women in environmental health, engineering and science. Also reviews publications in these areas. (JM)

Concludes that black studies programs should develop an octopus-like academic structure which reaches out in several directions, simultaneously: initiating and illuminating, discerning and fostering, observing and directing, collecting and disseminating; all with one goal in view, exploring the black experience within a universal perspective.…

Discusses the proposition that the black studies movement is but a continuing aspect of our general battle for survival and liberation in a fluctuatingly hostile environment, and that a part of what is seen today in the black studies movement is but a fluctuation in a fight and an expression of black collective awareness dating back to the…

Indigenous knowledge is a living, breathing concept and must be treated with care and respect. This living knowledge is transmitted orally. At the University of Queensland (Australia), the Torres Strait Islander Studies course was taught in the Indigenous way, and elders were involved throughout, from formatting the course outline to the running…

Discusses the concept of community as it applies to the college campus, focusing on community as a place to be, identifying implications for space utilization; a way of being, offering suggestions for community development; and both a place to be and a way of being, examining the implications for creating community interactions through campus…