This paper reviews the literature on the role that campus residential life plays in the life of college students. While some researchers have concluded that living on-campus or off-campus has little affect on student academic achievement (Bliming, 1989; Bowman and Partin, 1993), others have expressed that on-campus living produces students with…

This study surveyed fund raising professionals concerning the reading materials that they felt were important in the preparation of fund-raising executives. Each of the 39 individuals surveyed was asked to name five readings. A total of 80 different items were identified, of which 7 were identified as important by 20 or more respondents. These…

The primary objective of this book is to provide concrete and practical information to guide practice in education. While it incorporates a review of research, its focus is on implementation of research in real-life educational experiences. None of the scenarios described is fictional. Five underlying themes reoccur: (1) education is a…

This study examined faculty views in regard to support for teaching at Emory University. Data were obtained from 24 small focus groups of faculty who discussed their reactions to a report on teaching at the university. The data were analyzed using HyperRESEARCH software to generate detailed reports on frequencies of categories, subcategories, and…

Mathophobia is an irrational and impeditive dread of mathematics. For any of a variety of reasons a student can develop this emotional and intellectual block, making further progress in mathematics and closely related fields very difficult. (Author)

To free adult educators from their posture of supplication, the author proposes an Adult Education Congress with a political, propagandist role: "Not simply asking for money, but attacking those who are getting it, on the grounds that we can use it to better social effect." (Author/AJ)

Reports a study which developed a data base concerning the home background of Puerto Rican pupils as it relates to present and potential educational progress; the subjects of the study consisted of 218 Puerto Rican families having children in the public schools of two large cities in Connecticut. (Author/JM)

Considered the conflict of student and school goals and how to bring formal goals into closer congruence with individual goals. (Author/RK)

Author explained PBTE, a new way of preparing school teachers by colleges and universities. (Author/RK)

Considered developmental services, in which the community college seems to be chiefly manifested. Author expected to convince others that the junior college idea can really be made to work. (Author/RK)

Scores of almost one thousand student-teachers and post-graduate students in the Faculty of Education at Edmonton on thirty key variables of personality, values, educational and social attitudes were analyzed. (Author)

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the school policy at Summerhill, known for its radical approach to child rearing. Additionally, the innovator of the Summerhill system is queried about his satisfaction with the school. (RK)

Suggestion is made that social studies classrooms become centers for inquiry into student activism and discontent with the educational system. Guidelines for selection of topics for investigation and selection of resource materials are included. (SM)

Today we are told that we have moved from education for the elite into mass education and are now entering an era of universal-access education at the higher levels. Such a situation seems quite egalitarian and boding well for mankind. Yet the reports of great success may in reality be the notification of complete defeat. (Author)

Colleges and universities should abandon the post of affectless aloofness in favor of stimulating direct engagement with ethical, social, and technological problems of society. (Author)