Using a sample of 460 university students, multiple discriminant analysis indicates that of four variable sets (including perceptions of university goals, academic climate, academic environment, and academic alienation), perceptions of climate and feelings of alienation exert more influence on students' attachment to the university. (Editor/LBH)

Explores the debate on diversity, clarifying how the positive effects of diversity activities outweigh potential problems. Explains the role of student affairs administrators in using the university mission statement to concurrently promote diversity, civility, and free speech. Describes the First Amendment as setting minimum parameters for…

Looks at arguments concerning hate speech and speech codes on college campuses, arguing that speech codes are likely to be of limited value in achieving civil rights objectives, and that there are alternatives less harmful to civil liberties and more successful in promoting civil rights. Identifies specific goals, and considers how restriction of…

Used concepts from community psychology literature to elaborate a revised version of Tinto's model of individual student departure. Employed a longitudinal analysis of 718 college students. Results indicate that students' sense of community in their residence halls was a source of social integration and a precursor to student departure decisions.…

Argues that higher education's traditional "closed" communities contrast sharply with democratic progressive ones that are more inclusive, empowering, and diverse. Drawing on feminism and postmodernism, demonstrates why service-learning is well suited to connect relational, experiential, and constructive epistemologies with democratic progressive…

Explored loyalty between senior student affairs officers (SSAOs) and their university presidents, and between SSAOs and their department heads at four college campuses. Discusses the nature of loyalty, such as it being an exchange and arising from shared experience. Outlines implications for SSAOs and student affairs practice. (RJM)

This article suggests that in college community service programs, it is widely assumed that community refers to groups off campus, and primarily or exclusively to those who have been identified as needing assistance. A more flexible and inclusive concept of community, including the campus community itself, is urged. A central issue discussed is…

Steps in making a higher education institution a multicultural place of learning include expressing mission in terms of human cultures, developing faculty for excellence in multiculturalism, evaluating curricula with regard to different ways human cultures have focused on issues, ensuring that perspectives offered are not monocultural, and…

While the political activities of the small college and religious institution occur in a unique cultural context, they cannot be avoided. Politics and power can be best understood in ways that contribute to, rather than detract from, the work of those in student affairs in these kinds of institutions. (Author)

Presents an adaptation of a qualitative checklist methodology for implementing multicultural transformation in student affairs. Suggests an inclusive definition of multicultural, and reviews relevant concepts of organizational development, as well as of multicultural organizational development. Also includes highlights of and suggestions in using…

Assessed roommate satisfaction and ethnic pride in 101 same-race and mixed-race randomly assigned roommate pairs. African American roommate pairs indicated significantly greater roommate satisfaction than did African American-white pairs. African American roommate pairs also had the highest ethnic pride score. Implications for future research are…

Analyzes the past decade's internationalization of Australian universities against a backdrop of increasing globalization, particularly the expansion of global capitalism. Examines international student flows, faculty, and programs, assessing the relative presence of internationalization (mutuality and reciprocal cultural relations) versus…

Examines racial attitudes at a predominantly white university. White undergraduate interviewees had little contact with or understanding of black undergraduates. Their thoughts and impressions of blacks were based on misinformation or a lack of information. Many felt whites should not be held culpable for presumed wrongs due to past…

Explores successful program strategies that encourage greater minority participation in graduate and professional education. Focuses on three major components: academic assistance, financial support, and mentoring. Looks at evolution of academic assistance programs, the traditional forms of financial support provided to graduate and professional…

Considers the various roles that a faculty advisers plays in the three identified stages of a student's graduate education: beginning, middle, and the dissertation stage. Looks at each stage as a process of educational and developmental change. Focuses on faculty sponsorship, peers, financial assistance, intellectual interests, comprehensive…