Explores the recent literature on proprietary schools, focusing on the characteristics of proprietary schools and the distinctions between proprietary schools and community colleges. Poses the questions of whether proprietary schools are converging with community colleges and whether proprietary schools are a threat to community colleges. Urges…

Discusses linguistic insights that may be pertinent both to reconsidering the desirability and tenability of the principle of plurilinguistic equality and to the day-today practice of multilingual institutional communication. (Author/VWL)

Examined appointments of academic administrators in higher education to identify success rate of women relative to proportion of their representation; to identify and characterize emerging alternative career pathways in colleges and universities; to compare success rate for position types of internal candidates with external higher education…

This study examines the interplay of institutional environments and organizational contexts in shaping the responses of four professional schools (public health, business, social work, and engineering) to diversity-related pressures, expectations, requirements, and incentives. The role of market demand in structuring postsecondary approaches to…

Presented is an overview of issues and concepts related to deinstitutionalization and the development of community based services for the mentally retarded. Explained are distinctions between mental retardation and developmental disabilities, and between decentralization, deinstitutionalization and institutional reform. Forces in the…

Behavioral studies have shown that youths in various settings can function effectively as behavior change agents. The study used five 15- to 18- year-old male youths in a closed institutional setting as behavior change agents for five male youth counselors. Staff increased their frequency of positive verbal comments. (Author)

Changes in the choice of significant others from pre- to post-institutionalization were examined in relation to life satisfaction in a population of well-aged retirement home residents. Concluded that a shift in significant relationships away from the family may be an important factor in successful adjustment to a retirement home. (Author)

Investigated environmental influence on health service demands of State Prison of Southern Michigan inmates. Relocated some older prisoners to much smaller facility to examine influence of environmental change. Move seemed to cause temporary increase in illness or health care demands among more elderly inmates, but all other measures of inmate…

Institutional atmosphere forms the context of reasoning in an institution and defines the relationship between the individual and the organizational framework of the institution. The hierarchical complexity of the institutional dilemmas solved by people interacting in that institution defines the stages of reasoning embodied in the atmosphere. The…

This study explored the experience of collegiate mid-level managers in the higher education organization through an examination of the construction of roles and the congruity of the constructed role to the environment. Using a qualitative, case study method and symbolic interactionism for a theoretical framework, the study examined the…

This report summarizes the conceptual framework, findings, and methods of the Teacher Beliefs Study, an intensive, two-year program of research on the structures and functions of teachers' belief systems. Eight teachers in three school districts were videotaped over the course of a semester and were interviewed for a total of approximately 20…

Examined whether newly admitted nursing home patients' anticipated stresses of institutional care would relate to their experiences of stress one and three months later, and whether patients' experiences of stress would correspond to independent judgments of the quality of the nursing homes. Patients experienced the kinds of stresses they…

Examined initial perceptions of 83 newly received first-offender inmates at youth facility and impact of perception on subsequent institutional behavior. Found subjects had positive perception of social climate. No significant differences were found between six subjects who met criteria for maladjustment and adjusted subjects on Correctional…

Forty retarded adults were the Ss of a study to evaluate the hypothesis that individuals who have been institutionalized for a greater percentage of their lifetime are more socially immature than those institutionalized for a smaller percentage. (CL)

To control wanderers' exiting, the view and light through a window were manipulated using visual barriers: window blind, cloth barrier, and a combination of the two. The closed blind decreased exiting by 44% while the cloth barrier was 96% effective. Combining the blind and cloth barrier lessened exiting by 88%. (RJM)