Describes the contract principle applied to planning students'"four-year itinerary in the world of ideas." (Editor)

The results show that parents and students did not always agree on college expectancy, but students have not been entirely accurate in their perceptions and have not always been able to fulfill their expectations. Parents may have more accurate long term expectations than do students. (Author/BY)

Remarks of Honorable W.E. Brock in House of Representatives, reprinted from Congressional Record, June 24, 1969

A previous study by Edwards and Waters (1982) was replicated and extended by incorporating a personal needs/college climate discrepancy index and a voluntary/nonvoluntary attrition breakdown. The use of undifferentiated, nonvoluntary, and voluntary attrition criteria yielded substantially different results in both the predictors of attrition and…

A factor analysis was performed on data from the University Residence Environmental Scales (URES). Although 10 meaningful factors were derived, only 50 of the original items were retained as marker items. Only 36 percent of the variance was accounted for by the 10 factors. (Author/BW)

Recent court litigation involving the contractual relationship between college students and colleges is reviewed and the issues raised are examined to evaluate how real the threat of contract liability is. Court approaches are heavily result-oriented in academic decision cases, but courts are increasingly reluctant to overturn institutional…

A distinction between the student movement and the counterculture is made. Many of the educational innovations endorsed by the student movement in the 1960s are seen as having survived while the sociopolitical experimentation promoted by the counterculture has failed. Examples of innovations are provided. (MLW)

Points to the importance to college students of establishing a support network based on personal relationships with advisers, deans, professors, and graduate assistants. (GT)

Faculty performance and vitality are perennial issues that should be clearly linked to revitalized or reaffirmed institutional missions and to shared commitments to institutional excellence. It is suggested that there must also be institutional concern for faculty and the quantity and quality of students. (MLW)

The use of life history or biographical information to predict various college experiences of women was examined in this study of 327 women. The results indicated that life history data could be used to make longitudinal predictions and are discussed in terms of their implications for counseling students in higher education. (Author/LBH)

Summarizes some of 2001's more interesting and important court cases regarding disciplinary and academic decisions by higher education institutions, commenting on their effects on case law. (EV)

Coach Bobby Cremins responds to questions concerning the coach's, faculty's, and institution's role in promoting academic excellence and personal growth among college athletes; the responsibilities of academic advisors for athletes; the freshman eligibility ruling; the academic experience of the college athlete; and the role of developmental…

Describes the use of collaborative strategies involving faculty/student teams at Brown University. Highlights the Curricular Advising Program; which involves faculty and upperclass students in first-year student advising; the Odyssey Program, which involves students in curriculum development; the Rose Writing Fellows Program; and the collaborative…