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Laramee, William A. – College Board Review, 1987
An institution must communicate a meaningful common image. This image points to the institution's distinctiveness: the ideals, aspirations, and values espoused in the way it lives, teaches, and thinks. The importance of self-definition is discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Environment, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Mission
Galliers, David – Adult Education (London), 1987
The author discusses the use of racial awareness training in staff development programs. He describes the four types of racism: (1) overt institutional, (2) overt personal, (3) covert institutional, and (4) covert personal. He calls for better trainers and training programs. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Environment, Minority Groups, Racial Bias
Farrell, Charles S. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
A resurgence of racist incidents in the last few years has caused educators concern about hostility to Blacks on campuses. Some colleges have begun programs to sensitize students, faculty, and administrators to racial issues. (MSE)
Descriptors: Black Students, Change Strategies, College Environment, Higher Education
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Claffey, Marian Allen; Hossler, Don – New Directions for Higher Education, 1986
Two analogies for enrollment management are provided so that the concept may be more easily shared. The characteristics of the most effective organizational climate to ensure the success of an enrollment management strategy are described, and integration of the system is discussed. Additional resources are listed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, Enrollment, Higher Education
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Hearn, James C.; Heydinger, Richard B. – Journal of Higher Education, 1985
Organizational analysts argue that formal environmental assessments should be integrated into strategic planning. Guidelines for establishing formal environmental assessment in educational institutions are presented, evaluated, and refined based on the experimental effort of the University of Minnesota. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, College Planning, Decision Making
Chamberlain, Philip C. – Currents, 1985
Colleges need to pay more attention to presenting their distinctive character to prospective financial supporters. A framework comprising eight dimensions representing a wide range of human ideals is discussed. The dimensions are: moral, intellectual, egalitarian, spiritual, socio-political, humane, personal development, and tradition. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Role, Donors, Higher Education
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Lipschutz, Susan S. – Liberal Education, 1985
It is the responsibility of faculty as a group to preserve academic freedom by recognizing, acknowledging, and withstanding the pressures against it at every level of the academic enterprise. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Environment, College Faculty, Higher Education
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Andersen, Dale G.; Peterson, Arlin V. – College Student Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Environment, College Students, Student Attitudes
Montgomery, Roger – Progressive Architecture, 1973
Foothill College owes its tremendous popularity to the fact that it neither fits into the tradition of the modern movement of architectural art, with its in-group language of heroic forms constructed in brute concrete, nor the more esoteric world that sees high art in commercial strip development and A & P parking lots. (Author)
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Design, College Buildings, College Environment
AUEC Newsletter, 1972
Article considers the future of colleges and their role in light of current innovative educational theories such as College Without Walls''. (GB)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Role, Educational Innovation, Evening Programs
Brown, Cynthia Stokes – School and Society, 1972
In 1837 seven professors lost their positions for protesting the king's revocation of Hanover's constitution. (AF)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Environment, College Faculty, College Students
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Wilcox, Anne H.; Fretz, Bruce R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1971
With a sample of 43 male college students, self ideal self discrepancies were significantly related to some adjustment scales but were independent of the environmental (college and hometown) actual ideal discrepancies. The two environmental discrepancies shared a common variance but were not significantly related to the adjustment scales. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), College Environment, Psychological Characteristics, Relationship
Livesey, Herbert B. – J Nat Assn Coll Admissions Counselors, 1970
In this paper presented to the National ACAC Conference in Chicago, October, 1969, the author looked at the effect of traditional moderate liberalism on college students. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Activism, College Environment, College Students
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Morrill, Weston H.; Hurst, James C. – Counseling Psychologist, 1971
Morrill and Hurst present their new role of the college counselor in the university setting. They discuss the rationale for an "outreach" model and see the counseling psychologist as an "architect" of an effective learning environment, rather than an individual overwhelmed with the "casualties of ineffective environments and behavioral deficits."…
Descriptors: College Environment, Counselor Role, Counselors, Environmental Influences
Charlier, Roger H. – Educ Horiz, 1969
Descriptors: College Environment, Curriculum, Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy
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