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Peer reviewedKuh, George D. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1990
Student culture exerts significant influence on many aspects of college life by determining the kinds of people with whom one spends time and the values and attitudes to which one is exposed. To encourage attitudes and values consistent with the institution's educational purpose, cultural elements must be discovered and understood. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Higher Education, Institutional Mission
Trenton, Thomas N. – Interchange on Education, 1983
The backgrounds, values, and behavior of the Canadian New Left, based on a study of undergraduates at the University of Toronto, were compared with characteristics associated with the American New Left in the course of testing a model to predict student protest. Differences and similarities of radical students from the two countries are discussed.…
Descriptors: Activism, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Download full textDavis, Wanda J.; And Others – 1993
A study examined cultural practices of female international students at the University of Texas at Austin. Data were collected from 259 students (representing a 24.7 percent response rate) who revealed those aspects of their own culture which the students retained or modified as well as which American practices they borrowed. A two-page…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict, Data Collection
Gilson, Joan Tedrow – 1990
This paper examines the research and theories that describe the emotional and intellectual development of women and minorities, and relates them to student development today especially in light of the increasing numbers of students from various minority groups. Major theorists of student development, those who focus on either cognitive or…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Developmental Psychology, Ethnic Groups
Stevens, Kelly; Phillips, Jon – 1990
This paper describes and presents the results of an exploratory study of six Vietnamese American students who attended an English-as-a-Second-Language class during their first year of study at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. The paper addresses the issue of the growing variety of cultures represented in today's college students by examining…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, College Students, Cultural Isolation, Culture Conflict
Pike, Robert M. – 1981
English language sociological research on higher education in Canada from 1970-1980 is reviewed. Functionalists have tended to concentrate upon the task of describing the perceived functions of the educational system in the society and have usually considered major educational change as occurring in response to the requirements of the polity and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Environment, College Faculty, College Students
