The Annual Student Satisfaction Survey at Oregon's Rogue Community College (RCC) allows the school to measure achievement in services, classes, and facilities. Three hundred and eleven students responded to this winter 2000 survey. Findings include: (1) seventeen percent of all respondents at the Redwood and Riverside campuses were very satisfied…

A study explored the relational control patterns which exist in academic advising sessions. Fourteen advising sessions between advisors and undergraduate students during the registration process were audiotaped and analyzed using a relational control coding scheme. Results indicated that neutralized symmetry (one-across, one-across) was preferred…

This study examined the first-year postsecondary experiences of students through an action research project with small groups of students at three postsecondary institutions (one community college, one university college, and one university). The paper reviews the action research design method and highlights its utility in analyzing the effects of…

Study results show that most citizens did not consider a week-long campus disturbance to be a legitimate form of social protest and that their attitudes toward campus dissent were related to attitudes toward campus freedom of expression and beliefs about campus life. (Author)

Analyzes activism among students at the California State Colleges during the 60's in terms of three threads which ran through the various causes: (1) the rights of students as citizens; (2) the need for course relevance; (3) development of a multicultural environment on campus placing the individual first and the institution as merely…

A survey of the faculty of six colleges and universities indicates that interaction of faculty and students outside the classroom is dependent on accessibility of faculty and that teaching practices are an indicator of accessibility. Data suggesting the consequences of such interaction is also presented. (Author/JH)

Article describes a university experience of a one-time Palestinian refugee at the American University of Beirut. (ML)

To survive student personnel work must identify with the academic life of the university. Research toward academic freedom and toward continuous dialogue with students will improve student college relationships and give student personnel workers an active role. Presented NASPA Center conference in San Diego, 1969. (KH)

The author believes in the ability of the student to make the right choices about his own education and takes the view that the university must shift its attention away from the conventional counter insurgent posture to one more in keeping with its true function as the educator of society. (Author/BY)

Several methods of measuring the impact of college attendance on students are compared. Such methods as two-stage input-output, path analysis, partitioning variance, and stochastic models are discussed. Some discussion is also devoted to the conditions under which one method might be used in preference to another. (CWB)

From personal visitation, Congressional group reports on what students are saying about their concerns and frustrations. Offers ideas for consideration in hopes of alleviating problem of continual confrontation. Reprinted from Congressional Record. (CJ)