Systems for delivery of student personnel services are becoming increasingly important due to current emphases on program evaluation, accountability, and management by objectives. The procedures presented here are offered as survival insurance for student personnel programs and persons. (Author)

This booklet contains questions that are intended to serve as a starting point for asking meaningful questions about the quality of the first year of college so that a two-year college campus can enhance the learning, satisfaction, and retention of new college students. The previous edition considered the first-year experience for both two-year…

This document addresses issues of concern to higher education today, namely student success (particularly of underrepresented students) and accreditation and quality assurance. Regarding research and practice in the area of student success, the report discusses strategies that promote persistence, transfer, and completion throughout the K-16…

Following an introduction, listing of the program for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference, and description of the Center, this conference proceedings contains the following papers: (1) "Some Thoughts and Facts on CUNY, Public Higher Education in New York State, and Accountability" (Augusta Souza Kappner); (2) "Academic Politics and Academic…

Outlines the philosophy and procedures of an experiment in student-centered and self-directed education. (Editor)

The author gives a candid report on his experiences while creating a new college. (AD)

Author comments on the campus revolt at Northwestern University and states that educational reforms demanded by campus strikes are designed to open the university to the community, to student government and to all political and social expediencies. (IR)

The results of this study tend to validate the Clark-Trow model as a meaningful instrument in studying college student subcultures. Perhaps the most significant outcome of the study was that the college subcultures described by Clark and Trow are discernible at the time when students originally matriculate in college. (Author)

The academic, believing himself appointed to reshape society, now finds society has no wish to be reshaped and regards him as one cause of social distress. (Editor/IR)

A statement about the decision to close an educational institution that was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation is provided. It calls for well-planned and conscientious effort to ensure that the institution's students, faculty, and staff will be optimally provided for. (MLW)