By improving communications between high school and college, between parent and college, and between candidate and college, higher education institutions can improve their image and also make it easier and more enjoyable for students to experience college. (PG)

In the following pages, author showed how familial structures and processes affected educational roles, and reversing the approach, showed how schooling liberated individuals from the constraints they experienced in the familial context. (Author/RK)

Author responded to the report's charge that teachers are inadequate for the job of reforming the schools and stated that teachers would and could be the prime inovators in the schools if they were supported by the powers that control their programs and budgets. (Editor/RK)

At Sam Houston State University, student involvement includes: student involvement includes: student representatives on construction committees, student organizations assisting in planning facility improvement projects, the use of student employees in maintenance areas, and involvement of students with residence hall projects. (Author/PG)

Presents a personalism in an increasingly technological system of education. To facilitate the student's work and life, management systems must be used, but only as tools to be utilized to the end that their usefulness may be helpful. (Author/PG)

The writer believes that admissions staffs should play a greater part in institutional planning and communicating with students. (Editor/PG)

Are ninth graders too young for high school or too old for middle or junior high school? Author examines the problem and does not feel it is that severe. (Editor/RK)

The present research asked students in a free-response or open-ended task to indicate their analysis of the reasons for attending school and what factors would lead them to do better in school. (Author/RK)

This report focuses on the nature and forms of student unrest in a sample of schools that make up the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). Although not limited to one type of NAIS school, this study emphasizes boarding schools of the New England and Middle Atlantic States since evidence of student unrest is greater in these schools.…

One hundred and forty-six school systems that had reported student participation in administration were sent followup requests for details. This circular, based on data provided by the 74 responding systems, begins with a summary of the data in the student organization tables. The areas of student participation in decisionmaking are (1) advisory…

Child labor laws have not attracted much attention in recent years. Much of the basic legislation and the case law dates from the early part of the 20th century. This paper discusses the Mississippi statutory law on the subject, compares that law with legislation in five other States, and discusses case law in Mississippi and in other States.…

America's campuses probably can anticipate several more years of student dissatisfactions and sporadic disturbances. This report, supplemented by exhibits, spells out a model bill or rights and responsibilities for campuses and is a manual for campus members concerned with protecting constructive and legal dissent and avoiding destructive and…

This paper is an attempt to respond to the need for workable procedures for assessing the effectiveness of programs and institutions in complex postsecondary education systems. Effectiveness is taken to mean the capacity of the institution to advance student development-academic, vocational, and affective. Four general strategies are outlined in…