Characteristics of college students in India are reviewed. Personal and social influences are also examined along with various effects that the college experience itself has on these students. Consideration is given to the content of college courses, the influence of the teacher, peer groups, campus administration, and programs, and off-campus…

Assessment of student needs on a continuing basis will provide an educationally sound environment. Data collected from college students (N=952) provide support for this hypothesis. (Author)

This paper explains why a comprehensive Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) program at the author/educator's university, the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP), would encounter strong opposition. The paper first points out that the author, as the director of the University's Writing Center, has tried for 7 years to make a WAC program…

This is the tenth in a series of Los Rios Community College District fall student profiles. These annual summaries provide the district and its colleges with data on student demographics and enrollment trends, important information for successful planning to meet the needs of a changing student clientele. The data presented in the fall 1999…

This report profiles the College of DuPage (Illinois) and provides a quick reference regarding the institution. It contains information on facilities and land, finance, staff, college/student services, the Library, athletics, academic calendars, maps, and instructional programs. This report reflects the college structure as of September 1999 and…

The freshman class entering the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 was studied over a four-year period to determine use of mental health services and characteristics, by sex, of four groups: students contacting the Counseling Center only, the Psychiatric Service only, both and neither. Approximately one third of the students were users,…

While testing for the effects that a college course in the politics of race had upon students' attitudes toward blacks, study also provides indirect evidence for substantiating several conditions under which course content is influential for changing political attitudes or behavior. (RJ)

Students' opinions about their college environments are related to objectively determined features of their academic community; also to the actual measured changes which take place in these students on three year courses, shown by examination results, attitude and personality changes, values of a personal, social and religious kind. (Author)

Analyzes a study on student living arrangements and offers some interesting early findings. (Editor)

Students generally are not able to obtain quantitative information about the colleges to which they hope to apply. (IR)

The purpose of this study was to explore what happened academically when a particular kind of student was placed into a particular environment. In general, it seems that homogeneous grouping of students in residence halls may have some positive effects and is worthy of further experimentation. (Author)

This article is an attempt to diagnose basic issues of concern to students and to suggest new alternative programs for the future of student personnel based on the needs suggested by this diagnosis. (Author)

The results of this study tend to validate the Clark-Trow model as a meaningful instrument in studying college student subcultures. Perhaps the most significant outcome of the study was that the college subcultures described by Clark and Trow are discernible at the time when students originally matriculate in college. (Author)

The Dean of Admissions at Amherst feels that counselors should not reveal personal student data to anyone unless cleared with the student; improper use of testing should continue to be attacked; and that students be advised that responsibility for learning is theirs and not the college's. (CJ)