In the competitive marketplace of higher education, college and university alumni are increasingly called on to support their institutions in multiple ways: political advocacy, volunteerism, and charitable giving. Drawing on alumni survey data gathered from a large research extensive university, we employ a multinomial logistic regression model to…

This article presents a scenario in which the dean of the faculty of a fictional college discusses the issue of critical thinking (CT) with other school officials, using their insights into its nature and roots to prepare a course of action to present to the board of trustees. She learns that college graduates need to have strong CT…

Two samples of Slovak women in higher education were surveyed in order to determine the extent to which organizational commitment and life satisfaction are related to personal and work-related attributes. Organizational commitment was found to be related to the work-related attributes of role conflict and role ambiguity. These work-related…

This paper makes the case for establishing recruitment and screening panels to help governors appoint public college and university trustees. It offers ideas that can be adapted to the diverse traditions and cultures of state governments and public higher education systems. It also provides illustrative lists of the responsibilities of public…

The following report is a comparative analysis of data derived from the American Council on Education Student Information Form administered to all incoming students at New College of Hofstra University in September 1973. New College had a slightly higher proportion of male to female students in its 1973-74 entering class. This is the reverse of…

In learning experiments, individual trial performances are typically represented as a composite of two independent components. The first is associated with systematic variation, and the second is a residual component interpreted as error. From the systematic variation, mean trial performance is typically computed across trials to obtain a simple…

Five basic researcher qualities which seem to characterize creative individuals who want to generate knowledge are identified. (BD)

A "tongue-in-cheek" description of eight "typical," successful conference participant types is presented. Some of the types include the "academic priest,""wry woman,""Mr. Goodwords," and "beloved technician." (JMF)

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator and a computer anxiety scale were completed by 135 students in a computer literacy course. No significant relationship was found between personality type and computer anxiety. However, knowledge of personality types can help in shaping computer teaching. (SK)

The recent industrial action taken by the Association of University Teachers (AUT) has given the issue of academic pay high prominence in the UK press. There appears to be a remarkable consensus that higher education academic salaries are too low, relative to other groups of workers in the UK, and that this is leading to an academic "brain…

This paper lists and describes inventionist themes that writers and writing teachers can use during rhetorical invention. It defines invention as the process whereby writers discover ideas to write about, and the inventionist as one who focuses on this discovery process, whether that focus be pedagogical or theoretical. The items included and…

Theorists have argued that the relatedness of words depends upon the degree to which they are associatively connected. Hierarchies of association have been established using two experimental methods: (1) the procedural method, and (2) the repetitions method. Since the results of the two methods have proven to be somewhat inconsistent, a study was…

Reliability and validity data are reported for a questionnaire measure of individual differences in dominance-submissiveness. The 48-item questionnaire, which was balanced for response bias, had high internal consistency and correlated highly with other available measure of dominance. (Author/JKS)

Discusses application of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as a staff development tool at Wichita State University in Kansas. Describes procedure for implementing the MBTI in staff development and presents results from MBTI use with 39 staff members. Recommends that student affairs divisions at other institutions use the MBTI in staff…