Changes in self esteem or life goals of college students are likely to be related to the degree of success experienced in various types of extracurricular activities. To test this hypothesis, questionnaires containing 8 items requiring self-ratings and 8 items describing desirable accomplishments, aspirations or goals were administered in 1964 and…

The report interprets data collected by the American Council on Education on freshmen at 7 University of California (UC) campuses during a fall 1966 survey of 251 colleges and universities. The 7 campuses are Davis, Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. Students responded to questions about their backgrounds,…

The annotations selected to be included in this document are based on their relevancy to assessment of student development in the residential environment. While there are other sources in addition to those presented, this bibliography is designed to provide the reader with some of the writing and research related to student development in…

The Cycles questionnaire developed by Kegan at Hampshire College was given in May 1975 to a random sample of 200 Amherst College students. The 61 percent responding expressed the degree of their general satisfaction with the college, including their intellectual life, social life, academic advising, and peer groups. Although most Amherst College…

A study was conducted to analyze the personal needs and college press profiles of Negro teacher trainees at Fayetteville State University (N.C.) during the early sixties. The students' perceptions of themselves in relation to institutional press (administrative policies, academic regulations, social rules, and their concomitants) were seen as the…

This report discusses the research in progress and finished research conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Three types of studies are currently in progress: (1) longitudinal studies of Merit Scholars; (2) studies of talented Negro students; and (3) studies of participants in the national talent search. Previous studies, those…

This report reviews: (1) instruments for measuring student perceptions of college; (2) inventories of college characteristics; (3) institutional self-studies; (4) instruments for measuring faculty perceptions of the college environment; and (5) studies on teaching evaluation. The report also contains the results of several surveys of faculty and…

The general purpose of this research project was to discover those personality characteristics which differentiate college students who tend to learn more effectively from one instructional format than from another. Two college courses were studied concurrently and four different teaching conditions were utilized in each course. A comprehensive…

A questionnaire on various aspects of academic freedom was mailed to 50 randomly selected members of the instructional staff at four schools in the Los Angeles Junior College District. This survey sought to identify potential problem areas and to determine in what areas further study was needed. Thirty-three instructors (66 per cent)--all teaching…

The purpose of this investigation was to: (1) assess parental perceptions of a university environment and compare them with those of students; (2) compare the perceptions of parents of entering freshmen and upperclassmen; and (3) investigate whether or not parental perceptions of the university were independent of how they characterize their own…

The primary effort of the study described is an examination of the effects of college environments on the aspirations, achievements, and attrition rates of disadvantaged students at the end of their freshman year. Subjects were 180 students all of whom were classified as being disadvantaged. The various variables in the study are presented and…

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze some of the major approaches that are taken in the study of student change and stability. The approaches discussed are (1) the atheoretical approach, where the outcome is explored without a theoretical orientation; (2) presumed goals of higher education, where the outcome is cast in terms of the…

The Project on Student Development in Small Colleges is a 5-year research and action program which has studied institutional characteristics, student characteristics, attrition, and student development in 13 small colleges across the country. The results of this study on personality development indicated that personality development during college…

The data in this report were compiled as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program being conducted by the Office of Research of the American Council on Education to assess the impact of different types of college environments on students' development, and to provide up-to-date source of data about the population of US college…

This statement of student rights summarizes Monterey Peninsula College policy regarding classroom conduct, student records, student affairs, off-campus freedom, and discipline procedures. It was adapted from the text of the "Joint Statement on Student Rights, Freedom." The types of misconduct for which students are subject to college…