This is a preliminary report of a major research project to study the changes in leadership, organization, and function that took place in the student affairs sector of American higher education during the period 1967-1972. The report is presented in summary fashion with emphasis on the survey, the principal student affairs officer, organizational…

During the 1973 fall orientation, a questionnaire prepared by the American Council on Education (ACE) was administered to incoming freshmen at the University of South Carolina (USC) and 578 other institutions of higher education including 38 universities. The following study presents a comparative analysis of the various demographic data, opinions…

By employing an analytic method developed by the authors entitled the Inventory of Dramatic Behavior, this project set out to accomplish the following goals: (1) to provide a developmental profile of dramatic behavior of Florida elementary school children, (2) to correlate such data with previous results from a New York City sample, and (3) to…

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the construct validity of self-acceptance. Is it distinguishable from self-assessment as the literary use of the term implies? Can acceptance of self and acceptance of others be shown to be related, as postulated, but remain distinguishable as separate constructs? Three constructs, self-acceptance,…

An inquiry was conducted into the question of the influence of Christmas and Easter on the occurrence of death. The authors hypothesized that dying might be postponed until after these two important events resulting in a significantly increased frequency of death after these holidays. Obituaries were read for 4 weeks before and 4 weeks after each…

This monograph discusses the preparation, training, and future of the paraprofessional counselor and tries to assist the reader in developing an informed judgment as to the potential use of the paraprofessional--now and in the future. Important issues and problems of the paraprofessional are identified through research studies and existing…

This paper examines the perceptions of state agency vocational rehabilitation counselors and supervisors in regard to the values they attach to present inservice education programs and to supervision. Subjects were 282 rehabilitation counselors and 64 supervisors employed in state and federal vocational rehabilitation programs in Iowa, Illinois,…

This paper is an exploratory inquiry into some aspects of protest for sex equality by academic women. The analysis is based on published and unpublished information on sex discrimination in academia, as well as a sample of 65 cases of academic women obtained from a pilot survey. Following introductory material, Part II emphasizes patterns of…

This paper is a followup study of freshman on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota. The first study was done in 1968 on the 1967 freshman class. The present study uses basically the same data as the 1968 report including distribution by college and sex, age distribution, parental occupations, paternal education, maternal…

Major objectives of Project PACE have been to foster the integration of special education students back into regular vocational programs and to deal directly with job simulation development. The student population used in this study consisted of sixty culturally deprived special education students (control/experimental groups) from two Portland,…

In 1959-61 data were collected from high school students gifted in science. Followup data were collected in 1971-72. In high school, males and females were similar in IQ and intention to pursue science. They differed in math and science standardized test scores, participation in science, and the particular branch of science in which they were…

This paper presents a system for the utilization and communication of educational research results to the decisionmaker and other interested persons. The system, developed by the National Board of Education of Sweden, explains what is meant by the utilization of research, analyzes the three stages of research, and presents several stages of…

This report presents the results of research that had as its objective the evaluation of the curricula of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Over 125 Coast Guard officers and men were interviewed to gather detailed background information about the Coast Guard, the Coast Guard Academy, and job requirements of Academy graduates. These data were developed…

This document presents data on student expenses at collees and other postsecondary educational institutions. Data were collected from the Parents' Confidential Statement (PCS) and the Student's Financial Statement (SFS), two information forms of the College Scholarship Service (CSS). Data on costs on more than 2,000 institutions were provided by…

This monograph was a preliminary investigation of the parameters of faculty perceptions of the legitimacy of governance. It was in part a test of an untried method for measuring those perceptions. The results suggest several conclusions: (1) In assessing dynamics of collegiate governance, it is necessary to take type of institution and issue…