The American Council on Education in 1966 began a large scale annual survey of entering college freshmen. This report presents the results of the follow-up studies through normative reports and through individual institutional reports furnished to students and administrative representatives at participating colleges and universities. The original…

The American Council on Education has been conducting a longitudinal research study to assess the impact of different college environments on the student's development and to provide a source of current, readily available, descriptive information about the student population. The findings presented in this paper are based on the followup of the…

This study examines college environments and behavioral manifestations of personality needs. Measures developed by G. C. Stern for 4-year colleges are applied to 2-year institutions specifically with students enrolled in programs to prepare them for employment. A survey was made of: (1) all freshmen, at a community college and a technical…

The Committee on the Student in Higher Education conducted an 18-month study of various social and psychological influences that shape student attitudes, interests, and activities, and presents several recommendations that it believes could improve the quality of higher education. The report is based on the assumption that the college is a major…

Few accurate or complete pictures of the issues leading to student protests and the relation of these issues to the characteristics of the institutions and the protestors exist. In an investigation of the content and distribution of protest, the following trends were discovered: (1) protests varied in form, content, and consequences, (2) the most…

Three Oahu community colleges, Leeward, Kapiolani, and Honolulu, although under central administrative control and in the same city, had certain unique characteristics. They were examined for differences in student intellectual and college environmental factors. Leeward College specializes in pre-professional and general curricula; Kapiolani, in…

After three years of study, planning and preparation, Ottawa University instituted a new program of education in the Fall of 1970. The essential focus is upon the undergraduate and the learning process via an integrative interdisciplinary basic program which extends beyond the usual classroom limitations. The program is humanistically oriented and…

University autonomy is discussed in detail in the first paper, which suggests that there is full recognition of the principle that the duty of the universities is to serve the public interest, rightly conceived; that their claim to a high degree of autonomy rests not on privilege, but on the teaching of experience; that only under that condition…

The University Opinion Poll conducted a survey to obtain an estimate of student and staff opinion toward alcohol on campus. Four hundred seventy students and staff, 77% of a random sample of all students and staff at the University of Minnesota, were contacted for their opinions. Most respondents favor having alcoholic beverages on campus and…

The research literature is full of studies about attitudes of black students toward white students and vice versa, but more often such studies lack generalizable measures and contain methodological problems. This study was concerned with a standardized measure of university student perceptions and expectations (College and University Environment…

Community colleges must recognize the differences in the perceptions of the college environment by high school counselors, community college counselors, and community college students when planning high school visits and disseminating information. The instrument used to test the extent of the differences was the College and University Environment…

Unlike the student protest movements of the 1930's, which were linked to adult political parties, the dominant ones of the present constitute a genuine youth rebellion. This is primarily due to a change in the political climate in the last 10 years, with emphasis shifting from events and threats from abroad to social ills at home. Student activism…

This document provides a reason for applying known cost-accounting methodology within the realm of higher education and attempts to make the known techniques viable for sets of objectives within the university environment. The plan developed here is applied to a department, the lowest level in the university hierarchy, and demonstrates costs in…

This report presents a flexible 10-year plan for the Claremont Colleges as a group, with sections on the individual colleges, the central programs and services, and the affiliates. Appendices include reports concerning various Claremont colleges. (MJM)

This report examines the effectiveness and the desirability of the Regents Academic Chair Program in New York State. In 1964 at the outset of the program, 10 chairs, 5 in science and 5 in the humanities, were established and over the past 7 years the chairs have been occupied by some of the most eminent scholars in the world. Not only have these…