This is a selective review of the literature in regard to economic, social-psychological and organizational aspects of institutional size. The introduction contains some tables noting the increased size of individual institutions and the magnitude of changes that have taken place in the number of students enrolled in the nation's institutions of…

Data gathered in the development of the Institutional Functioning Inventory indicates that though administrators view the academic environment more favorably than faculty and students all three groups are responding to the same generally perceived environment, independent of subgroups to which they belong. (Author/JH)

LIVING-LEARNING RESIDENCE HALLS WHICH INCLUDE CLASSROOMS, RECREATION FACILITIES, AND FACULTY OFFICES ALONG WITH THE DORMITORY ROOMS WERE COMPARED TO THE MORE CONVENTIONAL RESIDENCE HALLS. IT WAS EXPECTED THAT THE LIVING-LEARNING HALLS FOSTERED A MORE INTELLECTUAL AND COHESIVE ATMOSPHERE. UNDERGRADUATES IN A LARGE UNIVERSITY WHO RESIDED IN ONE OF…

Five recent books about Southern universities that shed light on the problem of writing official histories and on the evolution of higher education in this region are reviewed. A collective profile of the "Southern university" is sketched. (Author/MLW)

University teachers (N=118) in Sweden assessed their organization on 17 dimensions. Two dimensions, creativity and productivity, were regarded as consequences of organizational conditions. Factor analysis yielded five factors: creativity, productivity, sufficient resources, and organizational climate. Productivity was related to variables of human…

One way in which university faculty members' professional lives have become more complex with the advent of contemporary university research centers is that many faculty have taken on additional roles. The authors' concern in this article is to determine the extent to which role strain is experienced by university faculty members who are…

Discusses factors that can influence a university's choice of goals and concludes that, given expressions of public concern that appear to be basic shifts in the fabric of Canadian society--and thus of its requirements of higher education--the reconsideration of institutional goals has become vital. (JT)

This paper presents a comprehensive case analysis of formal environmental scanning processes in three different institutions of higher education. The study focuses on how environmental scanning activities are organized and used to support institutional planning and decision-making. Special emphasis is placed on describing how environmental…

Reports an exploratory study designed to describe the development of the scales, investigate concerns regarding student perceptions of a large university, and examine in a standard research situation the viability of a new method of multidimensional analysis (order analysis, proposed as an inferential alternative to factor analysis). (JT)

Research methods for analyzing university learning environments are discussed along with the potential use of such analysis, and a study of one university in the Netherlands is reported indicating distinctive atmospheres found in various departments, each with its own kind of educational problems. (JT)

This monograph argues that university status should be conferred on colleges only when they have reached a specified level of achievement within their various academic programs, and that when changes are made in an institution's administrative structure and academic organization, something other than institutional aspirations should serve as the…

Suggests that the cultural and institutional environment in higher education can affect an instructor's teaching self. Draws upon the experiences of the authors who have similar backgrounds yet teach in different institutional contexts (a large midwestern university and a small west coast teaching college). Includes references. (CMK)

Compared equity in number and salary between women and men at different ranks within a sample of doctoral-level institutions of higher education (N=109). Found that at current rate of increase it will take women 90 years to be equally represented and that gap in salaries has increased since 1975. (ABL)

In the first section of this paper it is pointed out that the institutional environment of a university dramatically shapes the identity of its school of education. A description is given of the environmental conditions of the University of Rochester (New York) which most influence the character of its education school: (1) the institution is…

This analysis is an attempt to specify the purposes and factors in organizational change and continuity. Denial of the purposeful premise makes possible an environmental perspective that views the characteristics of organizations as a function of their adaptation to their environment. This approach is based on the premises that (1) change in what…