Based on a survey of 58 urban institutions. (HS)

Describes the Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska, an entrepreneurial institute involving the College of Information Science & Technology, the College of Engineering and Technology, and Omaha's business community. (EV)

Interviewed 28 first-year students enrolled in a first-year experience course at a southern metropolitan university to better understand students' attitudes regarding the institution, their coursework, and their lives outside of the classroom. Identified six major constructs: student involvement in academics, the purpose of education, importance…

Provides examples of academic institutions becoming catalysts in revitalizing downtown areas while also providing themselves with new facilities. How these projects have been mutually beneficial to both school and community is highlighted. (GR)

Presents two case studies of higher education institutions undergoing change to illustrate how institutional culture affects the change process. Introduces the mobile model of change that guides transformation efforts in urban institutions while remaining sensitive to their institutional context and culture. The framework is based on a five-year…

This qualitative study explored the attitudes of 75 students at two metropolitan universities in focus groups that examined students' collegiate experience, and developed a theoretical model of student satisfaction comprised of three primary constructs: landscape (attitudes related to student understanding of college success), geography (attitudes…

Explores the current structure of public higher education and its origins, and discusses why it will not serve well in the rapidly changing world of the new century. Proposes a different and more effective structure, based on the model of today's urban university. (EV)

Segmentation is a marketing concept that can be applied in a post-secondary context. This article delineates the outcome of applying a learner-needs segmentation that resulted in significantly improved learner satisfaction scores in a professional faculty at a large public university. Our original work described the purpose and value of…

The City University of New York (CUNY) has played a central role in educating minority and immigrant New Yorkers, and Hispanics comprise the largest minority and immigrant populations in the City. To examine the extent to which CUNY provides Hispanic native- born and immigrant students with access and the opportunity for achievement, a study was…

Proposes a new model for higher education that restates the land-grant college idea in urban terms. (PG)

Universities have either ignored or made only piecemeal attempts to solve the gravest domestic problem in US history, the urban crisis. Although institutional barriers, such as specialized or entrenched interests, ignorance of municipal complexities, and faculty prerogatives and research habits, hinder active off campus involvement, academic…

The University-Urban Interface Program at the University of Pittsburgh is a program that has been in operation since 1969. The program had several goals at the outset dealing with (1) minority and community services; (2) campus development; (3) communications; (4) the long-range Pittsburgh goals project; and (5) university governance for community…

Information for a survey of courses in Afro-American studies offered in New York State's colleges and universities was obtained from institutions containing 98% of the state's full-time enrollment. Nearly half of the institutions offered either graduate or undergraduate courses in Afro-American studies. Four-year institutions more often offered…

This volume contains the addresses and case studies presented at a colloquium on "Admissions Policy--A Case Study Approach to Planning for 1965." Contained in the first section entitled "What the college should do," the 7 addresses discuss the planning of admissions policy within the context of the total institutional setting. The major problem…