Based on address to annual meeting, American Association of State Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C., November 12, 1968).

The nature and purpose of US colleges is explored within the framework of student development and its relationship to social change. Data were gathered during a 5-year study on the educational, vocational and personality development of 10,000 graduating high school seniors. A strong relationship was found between college entrance, level of ability…

The complexities involved in combining generalized and specialized studies are discussed in a descriptive analysis of the Harvey Mudd College (HMC), which has a campus environment typical of US institutions offering undergraduate engineering programs. Of 7 environmental characteristics at HMC student personalities and the socio-psychological…

A sophomore course in social psychology at the University of Oregon was designed around a project using the campus community as a laboratory. Class members formed groups to study the conditions and processes of social interaction affecting teaching and learning on the campus. The design of the course rested on the principles that students are…

This report is designed to provide the University of South Carolina community with information about undergraduate experiences and activities as perceived by the students. The report deals primarily with: academic experiences and activities and to a lesser extent with student-faculty relationships, friends and acquaintances, extracurricular…

A trustee-in-residence plan is proposed as a possible solution to the problem expressed by governing board members who feel they rarely have the opportunity to develop any real knowledge about their institutions. The plan calls for establishment of a permanent, rotating residency program to permit really interested members to spend most or all of…

The Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI) was administered to full-time faculty and administrators at Oakton Community College (OCC) in fall 1974. In order to determine whether or not OCC responses were similar to responses obtained at other public community colleges, OCC faculty and administrator responses on 17 goal areas in the IGI were compared…

The U. S. Commission on Civil Disorders concluded that American society and its schools are racist. This position paper reasons, therefore, that white students and professional personnel are likely to be racist. Individual racism and institutional racism victimize black and white people and retard their adjustment and progress. Systems are…

This monograph focuses specifically on the college or university counseling center. One goal of this monograph is to present an information resource about the counseling center as it exists today, to examine the personnel, clientele, and physical facilities of the counseling center as well as the theoretical model dictating the services provided.…

This study reports an attempt to look at differences between the views of students and "faculty-administration." The study also sought to determine whether each group was misunderstanding the amount of control desired by the other group. To investigate the problem, questionnaires containing questions about 38 campus issues were distributed to a…

The purpose of this report was to determine how background characteristics, activities, goals, and perceptions of black students at predominantly white colleges differed from their white counterparts. Findings were used from several sources, especially the "Questionnaire on Student and College Characteristics" (QSCC), as a basis for identifying…

The first section of this paper deals with the contributions of non-academic experiences to education. Two measures, "my overall development as a person" and satisfaction with the non-academic scene, indicated positive correlations both between satisfaction with experiences in the non-academic area and overall growth, and between level of…

Academic policy should be structured in a way that best serves the needs of both the institution and the individual student. Existing policies generally inherited from the past, were designed to protect the institution, and are based upon faulty assumptions regarding reasons for low academic performance. Five guidelines designed to meet the needs…