Program and Service Review (PSR) at Pima Community College in Arizona is a mechanism to provide continuous comprehensive evaluation and improvement of instructional programs and those support functions that directly serve students. The PSR's original statement of philosophy stresses the use of qualitative and quantitative measures to identify how…

Fall 1994 enrollment data for Sinclair Community College (SCC), Ohio, are presented and analyzed in this report. The report begins by presenting fall enrollments in fiscal year (FY) 1993-94, and tracing full-time equivalents (FTE) and headcount enrollments at the college from FY 1976-77 to FY 1994-95. After comparing SCC enrollments with those of…

A study examined the language and interactions that occurred in classes where teachers felt they were providing an environment that fostered reasoning about their coursework. The discourse within the diverse classrooms of eight high school teachers (two each in American literature, American history, biology, and physics) was examined. In each…

Discipline in the nation's schools has become a pressing problem. The widespread use of punitive disciplinary methods, including probation, suspension, and expulsion, can estrange students from schools, negatively "label" affected students, and burden communities with unsupervised youths. Rehabilitative forms of discipline for students…

This paper examines legislation, court decisions, and state and local policies affecting the use of corporal punishment in schools, and speculates on the particular context presented by small or rural schools. There are no universally applicable federal statutes dealing with corporal punishment in schools. Decisions by the Supreme Court and…

The International Health Communication Hotline (InHealth) represents an attempt to firmly establish, develop and promote a new Communication Studies subdiscipline in the academic and health care arenas via computer networking. If successful, the project will demonstrate the power of computer networking as an agent of change. Health communication…

This paper presents findings of a study that examined the relationship between teacher control and school environment. Data were obtained from the nationally representative 1988 Schools and Staffing Survey, collected by the United States Department of Education. The sample consists of 24,480 secondary school teachers and 5,292 secondary school…

A 25-item taxonomy of problematic situations that commonly occur between mothers and their 6- to 8-year-old children was developed and evaluated systematically. Seven situation types emerged from a combined empirical and rational analysis. The taxonomy was then administered to 93 mothers who were asked how they would respond in each situation, and…

This study examined 14 sixth grade teachers' opinions about classroom management, gathering information from an online discussion group conducted during the summer of 1997. Researchers selected and analyzed the teachers' opinions using content analysis according to the tenets of three classroom management theories: (1) the non-interventionist…

Schools are the primary means by which society transmits skills, values, and concepts about self to youth. Without a safe and secure environment, it becomes virtually impossible for students to learn. This book reports on one project to change the atmosphere of fear in a high school. Eleventh grade students were taught the SARA (Scanning,…

This paper examines the relationship between the study of management and the study of higher education (HE) management in the United Kingdom, focusing on the nature of the discourse between academics in the two fields. The paper has three parts. The first part defines the nature of discourse and a context for the discussion, looking at recent…

This book reports findings of a study comparing how the leading institutions of higher education in England, France, and the United States conduct their graduate programs in political science. Institutions studied were: Cambridge University, Oxford University, and the University of London in England; the University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne), Institute…

The New Brunswick (Canada) Youth Treatment Program is a community-based intervention strategy for conduct disordered youth in New Brunswick. The Program's Intensive Time Out (ITO) is a strategy to eliminate unacceptable behaviors. It is recommended within the school setting for children from 6 to 11 years of age, and is designed to reverse the…

This study examined factors influencing master's degree attainment in various disciplines. Discrete-time survival analysis was used to examine the records of 3,189 graduate students in business, engineering, health and human sciences, and visual and performing arts at a large midwestern university for 6 years. It was found that 2,070 students had…

This multidimensional study examined the stress experienced by academic department chairs with emphasis on the chair's "person in the middle" role between faculty colleagues and the institution's administration. The study combined factors from the Administrative Stress Index with the Faculty Stress Index to develop a single,…