Describes a workshop for college women designed to facilitate awareness of alternative ways of viewing personal relationships so that personal and professional needs can be met. The group format explores the range of available relationships, considers vocational choices and sociocultural influences and includes a review and evaluation. (JAC)

Studied gratifications reported by instructors (N=60) of courses in psychology or family life. Gratifications included: significant participation and learning by students; professional and personal growth of the teachers themselves; and recognition, acceptance and praise from students. (Author)

Administered an occupational choice questionnaire to 316 students to find out why some college courses are particularly attractive to ethnic-minority school-leavers. Results indicate that entering a "respected" profession and working with others who share similar beliefs were of greater importance to Asian subjects than to those of…

Uses an 8-item Social Responsibility Scale to investigate social responsibility in a study involving 149 U.S. undergraduate students. Observes that satisfaction with the university and gratification delay are more powerful predictors of social responsibility among males. Identifies the socially responsible as those satisfied with an organization…

Role satisfaction, marital satisfaction, and self-esteem of married graduate students were assessed with eight couples who relocated and eight couples who did not when one partner began graduate studies. Half of the couples were participants in the Couples in Transition Project at the University of California, Berkeley. The couples were…

A study examined college students' academic delay of gratification, that is, their preference for an immediately available option (go to a concert the day before a test) or a delayed alternative (stay home studying for a test). Differential explanations of academic delay of gratification between task, performance approach, and performance-avoid…

Assessed the effectiveness of an Equal Opportunity Program in meeting disadvantaged students' (N=170) financial, social, counseling, and staff needs. Results indicated a need for improved personal counseling services. Results in other areas were nonsignificant. Colleges must give special attention to adequate EOP staffing to provide counseling…

Recent theories of professional work satisfaction are reviewed and applied to the college or university professor. Additionally, the professional satisfactions available to the academic person are compared with those of professionals in other occupations. The following theories of job satisfaction are examined: job facets theory, expectancy…

A review of research suggesting that career development and growth toward self-actualization among minority students may be delayed by environmental conditions is followed by the presentation of a planned career guidance program for minority college students. The formulation of course goals based on responses of 467 minority college students to…

Twenty-six tenured faculty members of schools of education were interviewed in an effort to ascertain their perceptions of the circumstances that led to their becoming teacher educators. A clear and direct continuity of development from classroom teacher to university-based teacher educator was noted. Interviewees identified advantages of a career…

A study investigated the effects of U.S. mass media on three dimensions of Thai society: lifestyles, social problems, and value conflict. A total of 100 two-part questionnaires were distributed to Thai students at southwestern public universities in the United States. Forty males and 28 females, whose lengths of stay in the United States varied…

Job satisfaction for college graduates is examined in this report that focuses on subjective determinants. It is contended that many objective characteristics, such as education and earnings, have little impact on job satisfaction. Data are taken from the National Opinion Research Center longitudinal survey of college graduates from the class of…

Need-based theories of work motivation are considered with particular reference to university faculty; it is hypothesized that three different types of people are attracted to the academic setting: (1) those who want to teach, (2) those who want to do research, and (3) those who want to do both. According to need theories, certain fundamental…

The specific objectives of this study were to examine: (1) social background factors which may be related to educational congruence; (2) the relationship between educational congruence and occupational congruence; (3) educational and occupational congruence as it related to occupational satisfaction; and (4) educational and occupational congruence…

This study was conducted to identify the demographic, structural, and perceptual variables that predict the intent of administrative staff to stay or leave their current positions within their university. Survey questionnaires were distributed to all mid-level administrators within a ten-campus university system; the response rate was 70 percent…