A trustee-in-residence plan is proposed as a possible solution to the problem expressed by governing board members who feel they rarely have the opportunity to develop any real knowledge about their institutions. The plan calls for establishment of a permanent, rotating residency program to permit really interested members to spend most or all of…

The Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI) was administered to full-time faculty and administrators at Oakton Community College (OCC) in fall 1974. In order to determine whether or not OCC responses were similar to responses obtained at other public community colleges, OCC faculty and administrator responses on 17 goal areas in the IGI were compared…

The U. S. Commission on Civil Disorders concluded that American society and its schools are racist. This position paper reasons, therefore, that white students and professional personnel are likely to be racist. Individual racism and institutional racism victimize black and white people and retard their adjustment and progress. Systems are…

This monograph focuses specifically on the college or university counseling center. One goal of this monograph is to present an information resource about the counseling center as it exists today, to examine the personnel, clientele, and physical facilities of the counseling center as well as the theoretical model dictating the services provided.…

This study reports an attempt to look at differences between the views of students and "faculty-administration." The study also sought to determine whether each group was misunderstanding the amount of control desired by the other group. To investigate the problem, questionnaires containing questions about 38 campus issues were distributed to a…

The purpose of this report was to determine how background characteristics, activities, goals, and perceptions of black students at predominantly white colleges differed from their white counterparts. Findings were used from several sources, especially the "Questionnaire on Student and College Characteristics" (QSCC), as a basis for identifying…

The first section of this paper deals with the contributions of non-academic experiences to education. Two measures, "my overall development as a person" and satisfaction with the non-academic scene, indicated positive correlations both between satisfaction with experiences in the non-academic area and overall growth, and between level of…

Academic policy should be structured in a way that best serves the needs of both the institution and the individual student. Existing policies generally inherited from the past, were designed to protect the institution, and are based upon faulty assumptions regarding reasons for low academic performance. Five guidelines designed to meet the needs…

This paper describes two innovative programs inaugurated by the counseling center at San Jose State College in response to the increased general involvement of college students over the past several years. The first program was an educational experiment which sought to make freshman psychology courses more meaningful, as well as to increase…

The purpose of this study was to obtain normative data on Kansas junior college students relative to the following areas: (1) socioeconomic background; (2) occupational and educational aspirations; (3) appraisal of counseling and guidance received; (4) self-evaluation of traits and abilities; (5) evaluation of the college climate; and (6) factors…

In each of the countries studied in this report, colleges and universities have been adapted to national conditions, customs, social structures, and political systems; but familiar trends are visible. Among the most important trends are rapid enrollment growth and a movement toward universal access; rising expenditures; increasing public support;…

The purposes and activities of the American Council on Education's Office of Research are reviewed, focusing on the overriding issue of the impact colleges have on their students. The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), which constitutes the backbone of research activities of the office, is described with regard to its progress,…

This study investigates the effects of the academic environment of a small, Christian liberal arts college on students' later activities, and the effects of the college on different types of students. Alumni from the classes of 1965 and 1966 were asked why they attended the college and to provide information about experiences they had at the…

Through use of a random sample of 148 Anglo and 154 Mexican American subjects, this study sought to examine the factor structure of the College and University Environment Scales (CUES) for the bilingual/bicultural full-time unmarried undergraduate student population at the University of Texas at El Paso, to compare the Mexican American students'…

This annotated bibliography has been designed as an introduction for the listings: Overview of Educational Environments, Campus Environment-Student Transactions, Student Characteristics; Housing and Residence Halls, Measurement of College Environments, Student-Campus Environment Dysfunctions, and Intentional Campus Designs. The references include…