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Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1976
As a result of the concern for minority and disadvantaged students' ability to relate the values and culture promulgated in schools to their own culture, a training program conducted in three school districts attempted to improve the attitudes and behaviors of teachers and counselors toward these students. A research study was conducted to (1)…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Change Strategies, Counselor Attitudes
Garber, Herbert – 1977
Students who withdrew from the State University of New York at Oswego during academic year 1974-1975 were surveyed to study the differences between them and their classmates who persisted. A sample of 52 students responded to questionnaires inquiring why they had chosen to attend Oswego, why they left early, and what their present educational…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Departments, Females

Houwing, J. F., Ed.; Kristjanson, A. M., Ed. – 1979
A total of 263 research, innovative, and experimental projects are described that are concerned with postsecondary education in Canada and that are currently in progress or have been completed in the course of 1978. The information was obtained from a questionnaire mailed to some 1900 potential contributors in universities, community colleges,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, College Administration, College Curriculum
Sell, G. Roger – 1975
Introductory Psychology is a multimedia course that may be taken for college credit from the University of Mid-America, which allows the learner to proceed at his own rate, and which encourages a support system of administrators, faculty, and learning center staff to assist the learner in the accomplishment of educational goals. The evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Delivery Systems
Brown, Lawrence A. – 1975
The television component of each of the four courses offered to date by the Universtiy of Mid-America and the State University of Nebraska is by design an important instructional element of the course. Enrollees in the courses were surveyed for their opinions. Generally the course television components have been considered to be both helpful and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Content, Educational Objectives, Educational Television
Pace, C. Robert – 1976
A pamphlet developed for high school students describes the student body of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and provides an idea of what it's like to attend the university. Information about the student composition was derived from a survey of 2,600 UCLA freshmen during the fall of 1975. In the annual freshmen survey, students…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, College Environment, College Students
Fenton, Joann C. – 1978
The metropolitan university is viewed from the context of individual, group, and university level of social interaction. Metropolitan universities are defined as state-supported public universities located in urban areas and legislatively mandated as teaching institutions. Resources are usually dependent upon the number of full-time equivalent…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, College Faculty, College Role
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Agriculture. – 1980
Congressional hearings concerning H.R. 7557 and H.R. 7757, which pertain to grants to 1890 land-grant colleges, are presented. H.R. 7557 provides for grants to the states for the purposes of assisting eligible colleges, including Tuskegee Institute, to receive funds under the act of August 30, 1890, in the purchase of equipment and land and the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Black Colleges, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Planning
California State Univ., Los Angeles. National Dissemination and Assessment Center. – 1978
Dissertation abstracts describing research on a wide variety of topics in bilingual education are presented. This publication is designed to provide background material for bilingual educators as well as practical procedures for bilingual teachers, administrators, counselors, and evaluators. The titles were acquired by using the two broad…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cultural Education

Haertel, Geneva D.; Talmage, Harriet – 1979
Based on the Walberg educational productivity model--which relates one quantifiable educational outcome to a range of inputs--a research project was undertaken to determine the impact of school desegregation on the academic achievement of third and sixth grade students in a Chicago suburb. A four-phase cooperative effort was instituted, involving…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Classroom Environment, College Faculty
Jeacock, Robert L. – 1977
For the purpose of the study, the local economy of Malaspina College in Nanaimo, British Columbia was defined as the school district. The variables used to assess the college's impact were: (1) income injected into the local economy as a result of the expenditures of the college, its employees, and its students; (2) college-related revenues…
Descriptors: Business, College Students, Colleges, Community Benefits
Tweddale, R. Bruce – 1975
The Americam College Test (ACT) assessment results for 441 freshmen who entered Grand Valley State Colleges (GVSC) in fall 1973, and who were still enrolled in fall 1974 were compared to the results for 324 freshmen who entered GVSC in fall 1973 and who were not enrolled in fall 1974. Comparisons were made of ACT test scores, self-reported high…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Attrition (Research Studies), Career Choice, Cluster Colleges
Winkworth, John M.; Kroll, Bonnie L. – 1977
To help determine priorities for the use of student fees for campus services and to test the degree of importance to students of a wide range of programs, a survey of student perceptions of these services was conducted by the University of California at Davis in the spring quarter of 1976. A total of 1,365 students responded by completing a…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Housing, College Students, Counseling
Lepchenske, George L.; Harcleroad, Fred F. – 1978
This study sought to identify and describe changes in curriculum programs and instructional systems occurring among a selected sample of small, private liberal arts colleges between 1969-70 and 1974-75. This study supports the prediction, based on a 1957 study by E.J. McGrath and C.H. Russell, that a pattern of course work combining a broad,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, College Role, Cooperative Planning
Baldwin, Thomas F.; And Others – 1974
The project described consisted of a field experiment in the delivery of a social service by means of a commercially-operated cable television system. A five-program series was developed and produced which provided foster-parent training leading to the licensing of prospective foster parents. Some 64 volunteers began the training program. Half the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Cable Television, Cost Effectiveness