This study defines key elements of the instructional environment at Memphis State University perceives and analyzes student and faculty assessments of this environment, and determines the extent of significant patterns of similarity or dissimilarity in the views expressed. Data were collected by a review of related research literature and…

This study examines the effectiveness of biographical inventory data as a predictor of college performance particularly among the disadvantaged where current college entrance procedures provide less than a satisfactory alternative. The sample consisted of 1,640 students of which 982 were in special admissions programs, 554 were regular admission…

Questionnaires sent to every institution of higher education in Illinois examined the status of women. Responses from 93 institutions indicated the position of women in Illinois institutions of higher education was deteriorating at an ever-increasing rate. The pattern of employment places most men in three professional ranks and over half in the…

This report presents empirical data in support of the behavioral, demand-oriented theory of Ph.D. production. A close examination of the Ph.D. curricula of the English, Economics, and Chemistry departments at Berkeley, chosen as representative of the extremes of departmental behavior, demonstrates that requirements do differ substantially and in a…

This study investigates the resource allocation problem of faculty hiring and promotion patterns using the techniques of optimal control theory. The mathematical structure of an academic faculty is described by a linear dynamic model whose parameters were estimated from actual data by two different techniques. The principal characteristics of the…

The authors develop a model of undergraduate student attendance that relies on five parameters, one of these being a parameter of total work, w, required to complete the degree. An enrollment forecasting method consistent with these attendance patterns is developed and compared with data for the period, 1961-1966, and a cohort of 2126 and 3298…

This report examines the educational experiences and progress of freshmen who are 20 years of age or older at the time of matriculation. Data were obtained from questionnaire responses of a sample consisting of 18,848 first-time full-time freshmen in fall 1967 and a subsample of 63,510 students in 1971. Data indicated: (1) Only 5% of the entering…

This report examines the educational progress of low-income college students. The sample consisted of 185,845 first-time full-time freshmen in fall 1967 and a subsample consisted of 63,510 students in 1971. Results of the questionnaires indicated: (1) Low-income students were not distributed randomly among institutions. (2) The proportion of…

This document summarizes information about attrition, graduation, and graduation with honors at Hollins and other College Research Center (CRC) member colleges; calls attention to the fact that increasing percentages of entering freshmen are saying that the chances of their transferring to another college are "very good"; examines the…

This study evaluated through a mail questionnaire the relevancy of the home economics and related courses as perceived by a stratified proportionate random sampling of 297 home economics graduates of 1968 through 1972 from three Arizona universities. The home economics graduates appeared to find most of their courses relevant to the development of…

This paper describes the beliefs and values of a pluralistic approach to social change and of four competing approaches: social Darwinism, functionalism, militancy, and conflict theory. Stressing the alienation and dogmatism of the competing approaches, the authors relate each approach to its operation in community action projects. Social…

The Work Group on Behavior Modification in Education, which issued this report, was authorized by Secretary Elliot Richardson on November 21, 1970. The body of this report includes an analysis of the benefits of behavior modification techniques in education, examples of their successful application with a variety of large student populations, an…

This document contains a compilation of research in agricultural education completed during the 1971-72 year. Presented in abstract form, the studies represent the work of persons in ten states of the Southern Region. The abstracts are arranged alphabetically by author and include the purpose, methodology, and findings. Announcements of topics now…

Depressed and nondepressed college students were frustrated in an incentive task utilizing a nonreward technique. Matched controls undertook a similar task in which the frustration condition was absent. Subjects were 127 undergraduate psychology students. Pre- and post-test measures of hostility and depression were obtained. The Beck Depression…

The purpose of the present study was to determine: (1) How much the development of a student's attitude toward life was affected by different aspects of his achievement and family background; and (2) How the part played by these factors compared with that played by different aspects of the school he attended. We constructed an index that reflected…