This paper describes the summer Parent Orientation Program at the University of Maryland and an evaluation of the program several months later. The goal of the program was to educate parents in the facilitation of their son's or daughter's transition from high school to college. Another goal was to recognize parents as a vital part of the…

Students try to fashion for themselves a simplified and intelligible picture of the world and then to substitute that for the world of experience. Student personnel workers often resist this displacement and intervene in the development of each student. This obstructs development for some students. (Author)

Understanding the experience of minority students in graduate school requires moving beyond traditional quantitative data and listening to them voice their concerns. Interview data are reported for student family background, graduate and professional school experience, career and commitment, admissions issues, and reactions to Bakke. (Author/LBH)

Heading off potential problems now can only increase the chances of survival for college placement and recruitment. Recognizing these problems for who and what they are is a good way to start. (Author)

Discusses the purposes of the university and the importance of the reflection of educational goals in the planning of student residential systems. Encourages active participation on the part of faculty and administration as well as students. Presented at the Big 10 Housing Officers Operations Meeting, November 16, 1976. (DOW)

A questionnaire survey of graduates of University of Michigan's Residential College during 1971-1974 indicates that those students were not disadvantaged in the competition for postgraduate and occupational opportunities. The strengths of RC and other experimental colleges lie in their energetic cultural, social, and political life. (LBH)

Recent developments in student judicial (disciplinary) systems were surveyed at large institutions of higher education. The past five years have seen more standardization of procedural due process and some growth in judicial structures. The dean of students office, instead of student judicial committee(s), still conducts the majority of…

Describes the federal regulations requiring colleges to examine their public relations programs for misleading and inaccurate statements, and the innovative approaches used by various colleges under the Better Information for Student Choice project to give students the information they need for making decisions about college attendance. (RT)

Lists and describes 200 current issues and controversies involving student editors, faculty advisers, and the campus communications media; also lists materials relating to each item, copies of which are available upon request. (GW)

Some functions for members of a scholarship committee are presented along with a suggested technique for committee operation and examples of problems handled by members of such a committee at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia. (LBH)

The Medical School Learning Environment Survey was developed to measure aspects of the learning environment relevant to student stress. Results of the first administration and plans for future projects using the survey are discussed. (Author/LBH)

In this statement prepared for an orientation program for incoming law students, focus is on the general objectives of legal training and on student expectations. (LBH)

A graduate level course at Ohio University, Organizational Behavior, afforded an excellent opportunity to use the sociodrama technique in teaching. Students used the "living newspaper" technique and acted out a confrontation among student leaders, community representatives, and university administrative personnel that followed the Kent…

Institutions of higher education need to be highly concerned with alienated students since they pose serious problems for the future and may be the leaders of future campus rebellions. (Author/LBH)

Presents the Campus Ecology Model which advocates an ecological perspective on commuting. Suggests that campus ecology should infer the ecology of the student, so that the physical/social environment residing outside of the university's property boundaries is of great importance. An ecosystem design process, its application to commuter…