Previous research has indicated significant variation between schools in the proportion of their students who go on to higher education. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the specific school characteristics influencing application and entry to tertiary education. This paper sets out to analyse the individual and school factors…

Teaching economic geography outside Anglo-American countries presents a particular pedagogical challenge, as theories and concepts developed in these countries might not be directly applicable outside their intellectual and national contexts. In this paper, the authors show how the peculiar institutional and development environments in China and…

Presents literature review on institutional racism in the field of mental health to identify its past and present forms, and provides recommendations from a clinical, community, and public policy nature. Also describes mental health approaches that attempt to be preventive or consultative for purpose of understanding modern forms of racism.…

Civic responsibility as an ideal of higher education is rarely considered through a cultural and theoretical lens. Swidler's (1986, "American Sociological Review", 51: 273-286) framework linking ideology, culture and action was used in this ethnographic study of a research university (a) to understand dominant institutional beliefs about civic…

In "The Other Curriculum: Out-of-Class Experiences Associated with Student Learning and Personal Development," George Kuh (1995) cites numerous benefits associated with a college education, including gains in knowledge, autonomy, social maturation, and personal acceptance; modest gains in verbal and quantitative skills, cognitive…

Forensic suicides and suicide attempts challenge certain premises long held by classical suicidologists. Chronic ambiguity and free-floating rage, attributes exacerbated by the jail-like environment of many forensic units, pose a situation whereby either the self or others become convenient targets for aggression release. (Author/BL)

The institutional facility manager can assist the consulting architect by dealing with regulatory agencies, detecting deficiencies in work early in progress, briefing new users of the building, and supplying feedback.(MLF)

This article reviews recent literature on correctional crowding, reports a recent study on density and the recommendations made to the institution on the basis of the study, and discusses implications for policy involving this type of research. (Author/BW)

The role of violence or threat of violence in the development of conflict intervention strategies and the relationship between collective violence and social reform are discussed in this paper. The effects of industrial, racial, and urban mass violence on institutional policies and the concept of social justice are examined. (JCD)

The population ecology view that variation in sets or clusters of organizations should be isomorphic with variation in cluster environment was used to explain structural variation among hospital clusters. Cluster differentiation seems to be casually affected by range of services, average hospital size, and the periodic closing of hospitals.…

Explored relationship between gender differences and variables in correctional officer environment among 157 male and 39 female correctional officers in 3 prisons. Found that women were more likely to be unmarried, work in minimum security institutions, be less custody oriented, be more likely to accept women as correctional officers, and report…

Changing an institution's culture so that everyone at the college is focused wholeheartedly on learning is neither easy nor insignificant, and it cannot occur overnight. For some colleges, it means introducing a whole new way of life. The evolution to an institutional environment that both supports student learning and measures learning outcomes…

Purpose: This paper is the second part of a comprehensive report about a research study that aims to assess the relationship between the university experience and student outcomes as a means of determining a university's success in meeting its educational goals. Design/methodology/approach: While Part I has described the process of how data were…

The ongoing integration of instructional technology within community colleges has occurred for a variety of reasons. First, community colleges have implemented technology-based models to make operations more efficient and cost-effective. Second, instructional technology has been used to expand student markets through alternative course-delivery…

The phenomenon of student attrition is an increasingly challenging problem confronting American higher education. Unfortunately, there exists virtually no consensus on root causes; and disagreements continue over what intervention strategies might help to reduce the rates with which young collegians abandon their studies and leave campus. Data…