This book offers guidance for the development of learning communities at the college level. The book analyzes examples of learning communities at a wide variety of institutions, including research universities, commuter campuses, residential campuses, and four- and two-year institutions. Chapter 1 offers definitions and characteristics of learning…

Focuses on ways to help foreign students solve reading and study skill difficulties in a university setting. (RB)

Attitudes of sampled Kent State University students, after the tragedy of May 4, 1970, seemed to indicate they felt Kent State was more prominent but less mature and stable than it was prior to the events. Some decreased acceptance of nontraditional attitudes was also indicated. (Author)

A method for reducing multivariate descriptions of college environments to a two-dimensional configuration is briefly described. (Author)

An article dealing with the current mood on the campus which suggests that student involvements are more realistic and less intense than previously with concerns centered on community and environmental issues and less on national issues. (JC)

Offers some penetrating insights into the reasons for the failure of Fordham's experimental college, Bensalem. (PW)

The study was designed to identify and compare campus environmental perceptions of currently enrolled seniors who transferred from junior and four-year colleges. Emphasis is placed on how the results of this study were utilized in terms of developing a specially designed transfer student orientation program. (Author)

The study concludes that faculty and curriculum profiles are moderately consistent, are closely tied to psychological theory, are measured independently of student characteristics, are related in meaningful ways to other measures of the college environment, and appear to reveal differences in relative emphasis on various subject matter areas.…

On the faculty side increased mobility plus heavy emphasis upon professionalization while for the students increased mobility coupled with nominal residence, leads to a breakdown in university structure. (Author/KH)

College girl describes the change of her attitudes to those of not wanting to force the turn of events and of trying to relate to the people she is with. (RJ)

Students were compared on alienation and three of its components: powerlessness, normlessness and social isolation. Among the findings were that the Puerto Ricans were less socially isolated than the white and black groups and that blacks showed more powerlessness and normlessness than whites. Implications for the university were discussed.…

Surveys literature to report on studies which shed light on the campus subculture with which the freshman must contend, and how the anxieties this subculutre produces manifest themselves. (CJ)

Alternative scoring methods yield essentially the same information, including scale intercorrelations and validity. Reasons for preferring the traditional psychometric scoring technique are offered. (Author/AG)