The activities of a university are constituted through its disciplinary cultures. The individual disciplines mutually provide environments for one another but are largely autonomous in establishing their internal standards. Therefore, the university is only an institutional realization of its disciplinary parts in particular spatial locations.…

Sexual stereotyping, directed at those from "other" backgrounds, has a long and involved history. On campuses, this takes the form of campus personality types. Increasing cultural pluralism has caused reappearance of some archaic stereotypes and sexual tensions. This situation is a legitimate subject for study and discussion on campus. (MSE)

Examined values systems of first-year college students and the changes they undergo during the first semester, using two different campus environments. Findings from 104 university and 86 first-year students revealed that student experiences during the first semester and/or influence of campus environment did not significantly alter their values…

Notes that, despite best efforts at facing diversity issues on college campuses, achieving multiculturalism remains elusive. Adapts Evans' (1987) model for fostering moral development into a model for informing and evaluating strategies and programs designed to advance multiculturalism on campuses. Includes description of case study application of…

Describes student perceptions of what it means to be a new college/university student. Collects and analyzes metaphors generated by first-year university students to describe the first-year experience. (SR)

Surveyed National Association of Student Personnel Administrators member institutions (N=704) to determine existence and characteristics of student affairs mediation programs. Found 29 campuses had established formal mediation programs. Argues that establishing formal mediation programs provides many institutional benefits. (Author/CM)

The University of the South Pacific (USP) provides cost-effective higher education to a third of postsecondary students from 12 joint-proprietor Pacific Island countries. As the only regional world-status university, USP fulfills an important function, but that status is threatened by nationalist politics, diminishing international aid, and an…

Discussion of effects of hate crime on college campuses reports findings of a survey taken three months after a fatal hate crime. The study found that students in the targeted group, especially females and organizational leaders, had increased extracurricular involvement in campus organizations. Also provides statistics on racist acts on campus…

Examines the impact of a recently adopted alcohol prohibition policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) on student drinking and binge drinking behaviors. Although survey (N=303) results indicate that students living in areas impacted by the alcohol policy are less likely to consume alcohol, RIT's alcohol policy appears to have no…

Responds to the tragedy of September 11 by asserting that the academy must do what it has always done: educate students, generate knowledge, and provide services to campuses and society; its commitment to academic freedom, intellectual honesty, and tolerance is also as important as ever. (EV)

Study hypothesizes that college students should not be dichotomously viewed as those who generate alcohol related negative consequences and those who suffer from the consequences generated by fellow students. Findings indicate that negative consequences of alcohol use may be understood more in a form of group process than in separate individual…

Explores how, in the aftermath of the airplane hijackings and deaths at New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, academic freedom may be under threat. Provides examples of student or administrative action against professors offering different viewpoints. (EV)

This paper focused on three dominant psychological theories--Cognitive Dissonance, Relative Deprivation and Campus Ecology that have been evolved to explain student unrest, to determine their ability to account for the phenomenon in Nigerian universities. It found that none of the theories could all alone holistically account for all the causal…

Members of professional organization responded to questionnaire measuring the influence of "Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act" on campus law enforcement practices. Most believe the Act has improved crime reporting practices; some believe programs and services have been improved; most think the Act…

The commonly-used expression "going to college" affirms that higher education is still rooted in place. Our institutions have three cultures in which learners physically immerse themselves: collegiate culture (a generational culture); academic culture (an intellectual culture); and campus culture (an institutional culture). Other agents--the armed…