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Download full textBelcheir, Marcia J.; Ollenburger, Jane C. – 1998
This study examined faculty, student, and community perceptions of the purpose and value of a college education. A total of 536 undergraduates, 121 faculty, 211 members of the community of a metropolitan university completed a survey based on the ACT College Outcomes Survey that focused on educational outcomes and student growth. The results…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Faculty, College Students, Community Attitudes
Hartman, Hope; And Others – 1991
A study investigated the relationships between academic self-concepts, metacognitive problem solving, and ethnicity in entering college freshmen minority men and women. The study hypothesized, first, a positive relationship between metacognitive problem solving skills and academic self-concepts, and second that there would be ethnic differences…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Black Students, College Freshmen, Cultural Differences
Sheppard, Ronald J. – 1986
Urban universities have a definite role to play within the context of strategic economic development. Coordination between state and local government, the private sector, and the academic community can lead to effective partnerships to formulate and implement economic development plans. Declining university enrollments and fewer dollars available…
Descriptors: Community, Diffusion (Communication), Economic Development, Higher Education
Allard, M. June – 1985
Institutional bonding was examined at a public, urban commuter college with exceptionally high attrition and visibly low morale. Changes in bonding and attrition were measured 6 years after a 2-year effort to develop school identity and student feelings of membership. It was found that a simple index of campus morale is provided by level of…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Commuter Colleges, Family Influence, Friendship
Brown, Nevin C. – 1985
The first 3 years of a long-term program to build more effective collaboration between urban public universities and school districts are reviewed. The sponsor, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, focused on building more effective communication and working relationships between the university chief executive…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Bound Students, College Presidents, College School Cooperation
Kramer, Arthur; LaMar, Ansley W. – 2000
This study presents a process used to assess the general education component of the undergraduate curriculum, focusing particularly on the components of the methodology that provided the data used to suggesting changes in the program. The study was undertaken at an urban institution with an undergraduate population of 6,000, and involved analysis…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Kinnick, Mary K.; Ricks, Mary F. – 1992
This paper describes a multi-faceted approach to improving student retention at an urban public university. It is noted that the students at this institution are older, working people; few live on campus and participate in what would be considered traditional student experiences. The paper examines the physical setting and external environment;…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Change Strategies, Cultural Differences, Dropout Research
City Univ. of New York, NY. Graduate School. Center for European Studies. – 1982
Issues concerning the urban university in Great Britain, France, Sweden, Japan, and West Germany are considered in the five selected conference papers that make up this document. In "Analysis in Politics: The Regionalization of Swedish Higher Education," Rune Premfors discusses how Swedish regionalization of higher education used…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship
Schwarz, Peggy M. – 1981
One of five papers discussing the humanistic model used in the training of reading teachers at City College of New York, this paper describes how the various field experiences of the developmental/remedial reading program are sequenced. Noting that the field experience courses are structured to give equal weight to the students' cognitive,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Humanistic Education, Humanization
Broughton, Valerie J. – 1986
The relationship between community college transfer students' experiences at an urban, doctoral-granting commuter university and their enrollment intentions was studied using Bean and Metzner's conceptual model of attrition for nontraditional students. Of 300 community college transfer students at a state-supported urban university who were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, College Transfer Students, Commuter Colleges
Whipple, Thomas W.; Muffo, John A. – 1982
A method of adjusting for bias due to nonresponse to an alumni survey is demonstrated, based upon analysis of data from both on-time and late respondents. The responses are opinions of 254 alumni regarding how they rate their recently completed program of study within a college of an urban university. As part of the university's curriculum review…
Descriptors: Alumni, Attitude Measures, College Graduates, College Programs
Cross, Dolores E. – 1992
This speech describes Chicago State University's (CSU) model for encouraging student retention and success and the organizational changes that were necessary to implement the model during a period of fiscal constraints. A description of the institution and its context notes that CSU is a comprehensive, urban, commuter university serving a…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Commuter Colleges, Dropout Rate, Faculty College Relationship
Terenzini, Patrick T. – 1993
This study examined how three dimensions of college students' experiences affect critical thinking skills: (1) curricular exposure, (2) formal classroom and instructional experiences, and (3) out-of-class experiences. The study used a 1-year, longitudinal, panel study design using data collected as part of a pilot study for a national,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Outcomes Assessment, College Role, College Students
Shapiro, Joan P.; And Others – 1981
The impact of an evaluation design on the effective implementation of a training program for women in higher education leadership and management was assessed. The program was designed by the University of Pennsylvania's Higher Education Resource Services. The training program, entitled "The Next Move," was introduced at three pilot…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Change Agents, College Administration
Hines, Edward R. – 1978
The work of the Temporary Commission on the Future of Postsecondary Education in New York State is analyzed in this paper. Known as the Wessell Commission, it was created in June 1976 when the City University of New York (CUNY) was closed for lack of operating funds. Legislation permitting CUNY to reopen contained a provision for the comprehensive…
Descriptors: Committees, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Trends
