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Smith, William D. – American School Board Journal, 1984
A neighborhood's reaction to the announcement of a school closing involves the five progressive stages Elisabeth Kubler-Ross describes as inevitable for one's reaction to the death of a friend or relative. (DCS)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Death, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Response
Shaw, Kenneth A.; Britton, Thomas C. – 1983
The premise that institutions pass through a grief process in adjusting to declining resources and radical changes, is proposed. In addition, strategies that administrators can use to respond to institutional grief are suggested. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's paradigm of five grief stages/reactions to serious loss are described: denial, anger,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Change Strategies, College Environment
Brown, Theodore H. – 1982
The complex problems affecting the transition from secondary to postsecondary education are reviewed by an educator who works with black students from a small, Catholic high school. The following adjustments that students face in college are discussed: a change in the way a student is taught and learns, new levels of responsibility and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Black Students, College Environment, College Freshmen