A student survey conducted by the Educational Testing Service to assess what college students actually know and perceive about global relationships and to measure their comprehension of current global complexities is described. Results are provided along with a sample of test questions. (MLW)

Describes the activities of companies which write term papers for profit or prepare research that goes into term papers for college students. Notes efforts of universities and the government to control such enterprises and their present legal refuge as "research" organizations. (JT)

Reviews a survey made at 36 colleges. (HS)

Summarizes findings from the National Study of Student Learning (NSSL), including findings that challenge conventional wisdom and findings that, in part, support it. Considers the findings' implications for faculty and administrators. Includes sidebars describing the design and conduct of the NSSL and listing other publications addressing NSSL…

An on-going survey of incoming freshmen shows that Hispanics are taking on the characteristics of college students in general. College selection, academic goals, nonacademic goals, and attitudes on social and political issues are discussed. (MLW)

Students are eager to attend a college with the reputation or programs they believe will lead to high-paying jobs and top professional schools. Student attitudes as they affect choice of college, patterns of study, and attention to learning are discussed. (MLW)

A survey of drug use and use of drugs and alcohol among undergraduates in New York State revealed that two out of three full-time students have recently (six months prior to the survey) taken an illegal drug or used a legal drug nonmedically. (MLW)

Expenditures by six colleges (Lynchburg College, Seattle University, the University of Chicago, the University of South Carolina, Western State College of Colorado, and Williams College) are analyzed. Many of the data used for the analysis are those supplied by the annual Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). (MLW)

Student voluntarism on many campuses is prompting politicians to offer new incentives on the local, state, and national levels. Campus Compact and Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL), two community service organizations, are described. Federal legislation to create a national domestic Peace Corps is discussed. (MLW)

A survey of undergraduate grade point averages from 1960 to 1974 at 50 institutions indicates a steady increase during that period. If the current concern about grade inflation is sustained, more institutions will probably explore methods to extend the distinctions that record the scholastic achievement of undergraduates. (LBH)

A national study of 82 college outcome measures on 25,000 students from 1985-89 looked at the relationship of outcomes, institutional environment (emphasis on institutional, student, or faculty diversity), and campus activism. Results suggest emphasis on diversity in all forms is beneficial to student development and also promotes student…

A Harvard School of Public Health survey of 17,592 college students concerning alcohol consumption found 84% reported drinking during the school year, with 19% frequent binge drinkers. Half of these were binge drinkers in high school. Also investigated were other drug use, dangerous behavior, secondhand binge effects, and gender effects. A 12-step…

Undergraduates are sacrificing the full experience of college to other priorities and the major detractor is off-campus work. Faculty complain that jobs take time from studies and extracurricular activities; job schedules constrain a teacher's ability to confer with students, to arrange field trips, and student time in the library. (MLW)

Data from the "High School and Beyond" study sponsored by the Department of Education is examined, including student attitudes toward: career success, marriage, money, friendships, leadership, children, relocation, social inequalities, their professors, quality of instruction, work skills, intellectual development, counseling, college…

A Rollins College (Florida) professor's survey of alumni concerning their memories of the institution elicited vivid and specific character narratives about faculty, pointing up the important role of faculty in students' college experience. The narratives reflected students' discovery of the pleasure of ideas, realization of teachers' concern for…