Investigates the attribution of success and failure in five naturally occurring clusters of 7th-grade students (N=217): Popular Insiders, Ambitious Insiders, Outsiders, Alienated Disengaged, and Invisible Students. Discusses the achievement attributions of each cluster and argues that school counselors need to understand achievement-related…

A theory-based causal model of disciplinary offender status was constructed and tested on a random sample of 348 student offenders and 348 nonoffenders at a large university. The model identified types of student involvement on campus that may be predictors of disciplinary status. (TE)

Student culture exerts significant influence on many aspects of college life by determining the kinds of people with whom one spends time and the values and attitudes to which one is exposed. To encourage attitudes and values consistent with the institution's educational purpose, cultural elements must be discovered and understood. (Author/MSE)

The entertainment-based campus-activities programming model popular with many traditional four-year colleges and universities is not necessarily appropriate for community colleges. "Cluster programming" designed to meet the needs of smaller, specific, student subgroups may be more effective. In addition, booking national-level personalities who…

This article encourages librarians to ask who their students are and how the makeup of the student body influences their instructional planning and presentations. Specifically included are implications for teaching space, planning for and presenting instructional content in person, and identifying outreach activities to selected student groups.…

In the Australian state of Victoria, students from elite independent and Catholic schools dominate entry into elite universities. Nonetheless, there are a small number of schools within the government sector whose students succeed in these terms. Such schools are considered highly academic and entry is very difficult. This paper is based on…

The conference reported in this document focused on the problem of bringing ethnically underrepresented students, faculty, and staff into full partnership with the higher education community. The conference addressed the problem of the erosion of confidence, especially among the poor, in what higher education may bring to them. The proceedings…

Argues that the McCarthy era, the civil rights struggle, and the Vietnam War all provided stimuli that shook up national identity and made belonging in this society questionable: unfortunately, the vast majority of those who had been shaken up found ersatz belonging--few became politically conscious. (Author/JM)

The family background, college life, and careers of Smith College students in the late nineteenth century are examined. (DE)

A study used children's definitions to explore the culture of the classroom from the perspective of the child. Definitions for school-related terms were elicited from first graders in two classrooms of a public elementary school in the Chicago metropolitan area. After having been acclimated to the presence of the researchers, the students were…

This study sought to probe the contention that curricular specialization in higher education produces a polarization between the scientific and humanistic cultures. Two randomly selected panels of men enrolled at 25 universities were identified from student directories, and followed by mail surveys during three successive summers. Results were…

Discusses sociological findings on the impact of college on students, the objectives of staff, and the characteristics of student culture drawing implications for teachers and learners, e.g. need for better integration of academic and non-academic college life so they are not perceived as making competing demands on students' time. (JT)