Article explores the impact of September 11th terrorist attacks on stress, prejudicial attitudes, and hateful acts as they relate to college campuses. It presents a review of the literature concerning stressors and their impact on stereotyping and prejudice. This leads to a proposed proactive model with the purpose of building healthy campus…

Reviews the Defining Issues Test studies (n=172) to investigate the moral development of undergraduate college students. Provides an organizational framework for analyzing educational contexts in higher education. Suggests that there are dramatic gains in moral judgment development and changes in moral reasoning during the college years. (CAJ)

Explores how living in a residential learning community affects drinking behaviors. Students living in three different residential learning communities were found to binge drink at significantly lower rates than did matched comparison groups who lived in another university residence hall. Further, learning community residents also suffered fewer…

Discusses concepts that are related to providing education and training regarding sexual assault, as outlined by the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act. Because college counseling center staff members often initiate and plan campus outreach prevention programs, an outline is provided of a prevention/awareness week intervention that is…

Provides a brief introduction for student affairs professional to the American rape culture. Offers suggestions and examples to assist student affairs professionals in their quest to develop adequate programs and services on their campus with regard to rape and sexual assault incidents. (Contains 31 references.) (GCP)

This article examines the role of race in the college classroom. Two types of college institutions in which the author has had personal teaching experience are examined. It is argued that educators should tailor a particular pedagogy on the basis of the unique contexts in which they teach. (Author)

Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) has become increasingly popular on the campuses of American colleges and universities. In this paper, the characteristics of GHB and the effects of both voluntary and involuntary abuse are described. Further, implications for prevention efforts related to involuntary GHB ingestion and GHB-facilitated rape are…

This multiple case study of seven colleges examined institutional life and organizational context. It determined that community colleges in both Canada and the United States exhibited educational and work behaviors in the 1990s consistent with the globalization process; education was oriented to the marketplace, and the needs of business and…

Describes conflict between the expectations for college student behavior and the more permissive mores of society at large. Claims enforcement of discipline in relatively liberal and open atmosphere of a college campus creates instances of strain for faculty, administrators, and students alike. Offers suggestions for easing that conflict.…

Explored the relationship between sense of community and burnout of 360 college students. Findings showed that students experiencing a strong psychological sense of community in their living environment reported lower burnout as compared with those not experiencing a strong psychological sense of community in their living environment. (Author/PVV)

Catastrophe Theory and Herzberg's theory of motivation at work was used to create a model of change that unifies and extends Lewin's two separate stage and force field models. This new model is used to analyze the behavior of academics as they adapt to the changing university environment. (Author/MLW)

While the number of overtly racist White students committing racist acts on campus may be small, the indifference of many other Whites is seen as creating an atmosphere in which racism is tolerated. Indifference also exacerbates the isolation felt by Blacks on predominantly White campuses. (MSE)

Summarizes two cases emphasizing teaching in major research universities: (1) an address by the president of Stanford University and (2) efforts of the Alliance for Undergraduate Education. (YP)

Inherent in the reluctance of higher education institutions to make their community accessible to nontraditional students is the assumption that academic quality and rigor and a sense of community can be maintained only by traditional students and traditional campus life. (MLW)

A former graduate student at Teachers College recalls the celebrated educational leaders who taught there 1930-45; their teaching styles and techniques, the prevalence of field studies in the graduate program, and the instructional stimulus provided by New York's cultural environment. (IAH)