QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM 233 CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS OF PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES WERE ANALYZED TO (1) MEASURE THE EXTENT OF EXPERIMENTATION IN SPECIFIC STAFF UTILIZATION PRACTICES, (2) ANALYZE REASONS FOR NONADOPTION OF THESE PRACTICES, AND (3) DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON SUCH EXPERIMENTATION. THE FIVE PRACTICES WERE TEAM…

This collection of papers was compiled as background information for participants in the 1968 Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education. The 10 papers focus on the academic community of the future, and ways of being responsive to change while preserving valuable continuities. John Caffrey relates the present community to the future…

Colby Community College has had a campus-wide Human Development Program in operation for two years. This document summarizes the experience of the Human Development Program in the areas of Human Development instruction, staff development, community development, and student development. Specific descriptions of desired classroom, organizational,…

The Student Handbook is a guide to the policies and procedures of New College in Sarasota, Florida. It covers the academic, social and residential aspects of campus life, including ways of getting a BA degree, requirements for graduation, the meaning of "academic good standing," student obligations in setting up a program, conditions of…

This is a description and a progress report of the Basic Studies Program at Tarrant County Junior College (Texas), a 1-year program in general education designed for students who rank in the lower quarter of their junior college class and who have experienced little academic success in the past. Communications, humanities, social science, natural…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are differences in perceptions of the university environment between married male students and single male students. Seventy-five upperclass male students were selected at random from the university's single on-campus, single off-campus, and married off-campus undergraduate population. All…

There is no doubt that US institutions of higher education are often encrusted with traditions to the point where they no longer meet contemporary faculty and student needs. It is high time for educators in the US to admit that there is much merit in student desires for participatory campus governance, without which colleges and universities may…

The need to identify the mode of integration of learning resources on contemporary US campuses grows as institutional expansion becomes a primary organizational concern. The implications drawn in this paper from the culture of the campus to the organization of learning resources is that many of these resources must be drastically decentralized…

This paper explores 2 concepts, institutional research in higher education and what is called the Left-Right Continuum, and suggests that periods of conflict provide better opportunities for meaningful institutional research than when the campus is quiet. To ensure the health of a college, interinstitutional research and intrainstitutional…

Various studies have shown that high school students have unrealistic expectations and poor perceptions of college. Whether caused by inaccurate counseling or by poor self-descriptions from the college, these cause student dissatisfaction or failure. This study, to see if admission officers' perceptions of campus climate as presented to the school…

This investigation probed characteristics of students attending nine Wesleyan colleges (five liberal arts and four Bible). Characteristics of collegiate learning environments were also explored to see how well-suited these were to the students served. Following a review of more than 200 articles, books and evaluative instruments, a 6-page…

Analyzes and compares the results obtained from administration of the College and University Environmental Scales to college of advanced education and university samples. There appears to be a genuine difference in the learning environments of these two types of institutions. (Author/IRT)

The four areas discussed are: traditional health program expectations; community college health programs; integrating student health services into the mainstream of college activities; and selling the health program. (MM)

Study assesses effect primary professional association identification has on views and values of student affairs practitioners in relation to developmental environment of college students. Relationship between primary professional association identity and perceptions of student development programming and environment is examined. Nearly 450…

With the help of sociological analysis, a categorization of four models of "community" is proposed, with each model related to a particular style of interaction and to a theory of learning in higher education. An alternative model is proposed based on the concept of working together in a joint action. (Author/LBH)