College students do not wish to live in a 24-hour quiet environment. The dormitory residents at Indiana University responded to a 30-item questionnaire constructed by a planning team from the Office of Residence Life. Their responses to each item are recorded and those with higher means are positively endorsed. Results of the survey were…

The nature of student college choice sets was studied. The characteristics of institutions that are assumed to be central to students' application decisions were identified, and students were grouped according to similarity in the types of institutions to which they sent their test scores. Data on 627 students were analyzed by a mode, cluster…

ASPECTS OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH WITHIN THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY AND THE ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIST ARE EXPLORED. THE PSYCHIATRIST CAN OFFER DIRECTION AND INSIGHT IN DECISION-MAKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING OF THE CONFLICTS EXISTING BETWEEN STUDENTS AND ADMINISTRATORS. IN DOING THIS, THE PSYCHIATRIST MUST VIEW GROUP PROBLEMS IN TERMS…

Concordia Teachers College recognizes the need for creating a humane and developmental environment for student living. In an attempt to achieve this objective, a student paraprofessional housing program has been designed and implemented. Initially, this involved the removal of all professionally trained personnel in the student living units.…

This paper describes the campus environmental assessment and consultation program of the Illinois State University Student Counseling Center. The general model for this approach is outlined and its direction from the ecosystem model for campus design is discussed. The relationship between campus environmental assessment data and two system…

The value of the college counseling center has been to symbolize the concern for students of the basically depersonalized institutional bureaucracy. The center has permitted others on campus to avoid becoming involved with students. By localizing the problems which are presented by clients within the clients themselves, counselors defuse any…

This study seeks to determine transfer students' perceptions of the college environment and to demonstrate a positive effect on their perceptions of the environmental press by means of a group-counseling procedure. Forty-six transfer students were given the College and University Environmental Scales, second edition (CUES II), which was designed…

This report considers the tenure system and its relation to academic freedom and focuses on Florida and the University of Florida. Role conflicts between faculty and administrators are presented including a discussion of viewpoints over budget allocations. An overview is given of the position or role attributes, status, and functions of the…

This study investigated the nature of transfer student expectations of the college environment and how these expectations affect academic performance and satisfaction with the college experience. The sample consisted of 100 entering freshmen, 100 upperclassmen, 228 transfer students at a Collefe of the State University of New York. The students…

Social-psychological data were gathered by questionnaires and the Omnibus Personality Inventory on two entering freshmen classes. A follow-up survey two years later, of students who had withdrawn, determined reasons for withdrawal and the nature of the problems these students experienced while still in attendance. Data suggested that salient…

Recently, colleges and universities have been recruiting and admitting students whose poverty-neighborhood environments and educational and ethnic backgrounds may have prevented the continuation of their education beyond high school. We already know that these "culturally distinct students" have college adjustment problems that traditional…

Recently several attempts at assessing college environments has led to proposals for understanding the development of college students and to preliminary strategies for understanding the kinds of influences that different types of college environments have on such development. This study attempts to determine if relationships exist between student…

An overview is presented of the residential college concept based on the integration of the living unit into a closer relationship with the basic academic and intellectual life of the institution. The history of the association of student housing with the formal academic program is traced, and theoretical bases for its implementation discussed.…

The elements of planned change outlined in this article, while directed toward a student personnel program, may also prove useful if applied to other aspects of the college program. One useful scheme for thinking about change describes it as a level or phase of behavior within an institutional setting, not as a static "habit" or "custom," but as a…