An intensive study of Rutgers College was made during the spring semester of the 1967-1968 school year for the purpose of evaluating the College's instructional program. The report examines many institutional functions within the context of current higher education concerns and their particular relationship to the perceived role of Rutgers…

Increasinq emphasis in higher education on teaching and learning as well as on research and development has occurred. Several publications are cited concerning faculty development projects that help to identify change strategies. The success of a particular strategy for improving teaching and learning is dependent on the acceptance and enthusiasm…

The Graduate Degree Survey was deisgned to ascertain graduates' reactions to master's degree programs at Fredonia, to discover the types of students who enroll for advanced work, the fields of interest, and the time lapse between completion of the undergraduate degree and when the master's degree program was started. Incentive for enrolling, years…

A bibliography of approximately 400 items relevant to academic administrators is presented. Most were published after 1968. The topics covered include: the sociology of organizations, management, management in the profit-making sector, academic organization and administration, history of higher education and comparative higher education, goals and…

This handbook provides information concerning appointments, salaries, fringe benefits, and privileges, as well as duties and responsibilities of the faculty and other matters of faculty interest at Concord College. In addition to the Faculty Constitution, appropriate regulations of the West Virginia Board of Regents and derivative academic and…

Assessed is the impact of various characteristics of life on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University on the enrollment decision. Random samples were drawn from the Fall 1975 matriculated and nonmatriculated freshmen. For each of the groups, separate surveys were mailed to the students and their corresponding parents. The data were analyzed to…

In fall 1974, the Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI) was distributed to all full-time faculty and administrators at Oakton Community College (OCC). Responses were obtained from 98 faculty members and 13 administrators (84 percent and 81 percent, respectively). Results indicate that faculty respondents found Individual Personal Development,…

This report describes the results of a series of studies examining changing beliefs concerning civil liberties among students attending several small colleges which differed dramatically in student characteristics, institutional goals, climate, teaching practices, and student-faculty relationships. The findings indicated that: (1) there was a net…

That the impact of the college experience is a product of more than just the classroom and library has become a recognized fact. Many variables determine the content of what a student learns and also the degree and direction of his personal growth and development. This study sought to examine one facet of the learning environment--the house within…

This study sought to: (1) determine the opinions, attitudes, and group opinions of different curricular groups; (2) determine the student's reaction to college policies and practices in an effort to determine whether or not the student's perceived needs were being met and/or whether they perceived changes which they felt needed to be made; and (3)…

The equivalency of item sampling and student sampling of attitudes of college students was investigated. A factor analysis of student-sampled data collected during Spring 1968, was compared with a factor analysis of item-sampled data collected each quarter from Fall 1968, through Winter 1970, at Mankato State College, using the Campus Environment…

Several arguments are made for changing the present system of grading in college. The arguments deal with: (1) the negative effect of grading on the teaching situation--the system is capricious and variable and encourages "grade grubbing"; (2) the lack of accuracy and uniformity of grades; (3) the effect of grading, as an enforcer of the…

The paper offers this basic proposition: The higher the social insulation of professional organizations, the higher the professional autonomy within them--and vice versa. Essentially the paper offers an interconnected set of propositions dealing with environmental pressures on the autonomy of college/university faculties coupled with a discussion…

Expressed satisfaction of students with their environment was measured before and after three conditions: (1) discussion to develop recommendations for administrative change; (2) opportunity to express feelings to each others; (3) no treatment. Findings show students would benefit from opportunity to express ideas concerning environmental change.…

The author writes briefly of his experience as president of The Defiance College, a small college in danger of closing. He makes a plea for humane teaching and proposes that colleges losing students seek to enroll those past the age of 55 in residence courses designed to prepare them for their new stage in life. (JMD)