This paper addresses issues related to the evaluation of campus environmental assessment interventions. It contains a brief historical review of the four-year environmental assessment project at Illinois State University and places the evaluation activity within that context. This evaluation was conducted to determine the effects of a mid-semester…

A SAMPLE OF 60 SENIORS IN A UNIVERSITY'S COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION INDICATED THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE AS AN INSTITUTION BY THE USE OF A 7-POINT RATING SCALE INVOLVING TEN DIMENSIONS--(1) USEFUL-USELESS, (2) DOMINEERING-LAX, (3) MOTIVATED-AIMLESS, (4) TIMELY-UNTIMELY, (5) POTENT-IMPOTENT, (6) DIFFICULT-EASY, (7)…

THIS CONFERENCE DEALT WITH THE VARIOUS CONDITIONS THAT PRODUCE A DESIRABLE COLLEGE ATMOSPHERE. THESE ARE (1) AN ABLE AND DIVERSE FACULTY WITH AN INTEREST IN THE JUNIOR COLLEGE AS A SPECIAL INSTITUTION, (2) PERSONNEL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES DIRECTED TOWARD THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDENT, (3) FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT PROVIDING…

College presidents have traditionally been burdened with pressures from alumni, trustees, faculty, students, politicians. However, mounting pressure from the New Left has made the role of the college president a hazard to health of body, mind and reputation. The goals of the New Left are first to disrupt and then to destroy our system of higher…

Documents listed in the bibliography are grouped in categories of--(1) goals and long range planning, (2) administration and faculty, (3) curriculum and instruction, (4) space utilization and scheduling, (5) student characteristics, (6) recruitments and admissions, (7) prediction and academic performances, (8) perception of college environment,…

Management by Objectives (MBO) has been used by many businesses as a means of improving performance by managers. MBO involves setting agreed performance objectives in writing and includes a periodic review of the degree of achievement of those objectives. This document argues that MBO principles should be used by colleges and universities, and it…

One hundred and ninety-five subjects, undergraduates who began their college careers in a large state university and subsequently transferred to community colleges, were studied in relation to factors associated with academic performance. A questionnaire was developed based on data obtained from interview sessions with students enrolled at the…

This report discusses Friends World College (FWC), an experimental and innovative institution on Long Island. FWC is committed to creating change agents to bring about a better world. It considers itself an agency for bringing students into contact with resources, and it considers the functions of its program to be less in the realm of supplying…

The broad range of information presented in this study suggests the current status and potential directions of community-junior colleges' community services programs. Data was obtained from 301 responses to a questionnaire sent to all 784 junior colleges listed in the AAJC 1970 directory as having such programs. The areas of concern and some of…

Part I of this report describes results of studies concerning "net change" of personality from analyses pooling students from all the 13 colleges participating in the Project on Student Development and from analyses pooling all students retested within each college. The findings indicated that: (1) changes occurred in most of the areas measured by…

This report describes 3 studies that attempted to determine the impact of college on cultural sophistication. The studies focused on items relating to student's interest in and liking for poetry, fiction, serious or classical music, and modern art. These items were completed first by entering freshmen in September 1965 at the 7 colleges that…