Analysis of the attitudes and behavior of graduates of Catholic Colleges seven years after graduation indicated that the experience of attending a Catholic college caused no economic, educational, or intellectual handicaps for the alumni on measures of religious behavior and on measures of political and social liberalism." (Author)

Various aspects of the academic growth of Catholic higher education are discussed. It is concluded that Catholic higher education is not nearly as weak as it used to be but not nearly as good as it can be. Schools could be much better now than they are if the relationship between the religious order and the educational institution was clarified,…

Argues that "no one and everyone" controls Catholic schools, and that empirical investigation is needed to determine who controls any particular Catholic school. However, "the chaos of organization the obscurity of control, the general structural messiness of Catholic education doesn't seem to do much harm to anybody." (Author/JM)

The author's study of 350 institutions affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church finds them to be as diverse as American higher education itself. Unless they survive the financial crisis so many are now experiencing, higher education will lose one of its great resources for the advancement of humanistic and philosophical disciplines. The author…

"This article is an expanded version of certain material contained in a profile of catholic higher education written for the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and published in October 1969. (Author)

This book reports on a replication of the 1963 National Opinion Research Center study of the effectiveness of the value-oriented education carried out in the Roman Catholic schools in the United States. It is part of a growing body of social change research being done by American sociologists. In Part I, the first five chapters, the context for…

Attempts to answer the question of whether it is profitable to operate Catholic schools and whether the failure to build new schools will cause financial and educational disaster for the next generation. (Author/RK)