This document contains the materials required to play a gaming simulation titled "Night Rehearsal" that is designed to familiarize both nontraditional college students and college personnel with some of the challenges facing nontraditional students entering college. Presented first are a brief discussion of some of the barriers typically…

Three situations of sexual harassment, typical of the complaints received by various departments and offices on all Indiana University campuses, are presented. According to the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs, "academic sexual harassment is the use of authority to emphasize the sexuality or sexual identity of a…

This study examined the perceptions of African American college students about the campus environment at a predominantly white university, using reflexive photographs and photo elicitation interviews. Five female and five male students were asked to take photographs on campus that illustrated their impressions of the university or that would help…

This study explored the interaction of multiracial identity development and college campus contexts in the experience of 24 biracial or multiracial college students attending three institutions an Ivy League university, a Catholic university, and a liberal arts college. The study applied qualitative grounded theory as framed by postmodern racial…

This paper examines the organizational context in which student protest is currently enacted and finds a new generation of campus activism organized around multiculturalism. Qualitative methods are used to analyze five case studies of student protest: (1) the Mills College (California) strike of 1990; (2) the Chicano studies movement at the…

This guide presents a comprehensive strategy, called "environmental management," for alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention in institutions of higher education. The environmental management approach utilizes, in addition to educational programs, changes in the physical, social, economic, and legal environment accomplished through a…

This book offers eight papers intended for student affairs professionals, college administrators, and faculty which discuss wholistic approaches to college student learning, focusing on the entire campus learning environment. Following an introduction by Frances K. Stage and Lemuel W. Watson, the papers are: (1) "A Framework to Enhance Student…

This guide is designed for student advisors in the United States who are counseling students preparing for a period of study in a fully integrated higher education program in the Federal Republic of Germany. Topics covered include: (1) an overview of the higher educational system in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG); (2) organization of FRG…

Proposes an alternative approach to preoccupation with "in-puts" and "out-puts" that focuses on the distinctive character and images of schools, how they treat constituents and how constituents view them. As a supplement to survey research, nonreactive and unobtrusive measures are suggested: artifacts, signs, clues found in architecture, spacial…

Attitudes of students who transferred from a college prior to the sophomore year were found to be similar to those who remained on dimensions of educational purpose, peer relationship, and public position, but differed significantly regarding process of education and faculty-student power relationship. Implications are discussed and extended…

An investigation of the relationship between informal interaction with students and the accuracy with which faculty members project students' perceptions of the institutional climate showed that "high" interactors consistently projected more accurate student ratings of the climate on a bureaucracy factor and less consistently predicted more…

Using questionnaires, it was found that there are differences in perception of academic pressures and university environment between academically least-successful (ALS) and academically most-successful (AMS) black freshman students. ALS students perceived environment more nonintellectual and providing for social interaction than AMS students;…

This investigation compared levels of organizational alienation among black students in three educational settings: a large urban university, a medium-sized urban college, and a small urban center. Students from the urban center were found to be significantly less alienated from their educational setting than were those from the college and…

A recent reevaluation of physical teaching arrangements at New Mexico State University has produced a new program attuned to the "new" home economics and has altered some faculty teaching styles. (Author)

Academic freedom may be defined as the right to do that which a faculty member finds appropriate to scholarly inquiry and instruction, so long as it is not legally proscribed, does not constitute an explicit violation of institutional policy or a prior agreement to perform designated responsibilities and observe specified standards of conduct, and…