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.…

Summarizes author's 11 years of experience implementing ecosystems model for assessing resident hall environment at 2 universities. Describes institutionalization of the process, administrative expectations, time commitment, costs, technical problems, student participation, environmental referents, developing change, flexibility, multiple reports,…

The article discusses issues surrounding child sexual abuse in residential treatment settings, including incidence and reporting, kinds of sexual abuse, profiles of the institutional abuser and of children at risk, as well as administrative styles identified with patterns of institutional sexual abuse. Preventative hiring practices for child…

Describes a personal contact program utilized to attract and retain students at a college. The program includes personal contacts by telephone from staff and students, personal attention to student programs, and an institutional commitment to the value of personal attention in areas of campus life. Retention reports have been positive. (RC)

Livingston College, a branch of Rutgers University in New Jersey, was established to provide working class and disadvantaged ethnic groups with access to an innovative and socially oriented higher education curriculum. Contradictory values in the dominant society, however, led to the college's failure to realize its goals, and its eventual…

This report contains the citations for the 1997 Hesburgh Awards for successful, innovative faculty development programs to enhance undergraduate teaching. The University of Missouri-Columbia, General Education Program, was the program judged to have best met the three award criteria: significance of the program to higher education, appropriate…

Discusses the use of regimentation and depersonalization as socializing mechanisms at an inner city junior high school. Focuses on the routine encounters of newcomers and the way such encounters force students to redefine themselves according to institutional needs and practices. (PS)