The present study attempts to determine the effect of geographic accessibility of a college on the proportion of high school graduates continuing their education beyond school. Specifically, the study asks not only if communities possessing a college send larger proportions of their high school graduates to college than do communities lacking a…

Data from a survey of 318 upperclassmen in the College of Education at the University of Minnesota suggest that favorable images of the college environment are likely to result when students attain desired educational outcomes; hold conventional political views; do not want increased student participation in academic governance; and do not…

The purpose of this study was to investigate responses of a large stratified random sample of students (based on year in school, college major, race, and sex) to elements of the Illinois State University campus academic climate, academic formats, social climate, and physical climate. (Author/IRT)

An institution must communicate a meaningful common image. This image points to the institution's distinctiveness: the ideals, aspirations, and values espoused in the way it lives, teaches, and thinks. The importance of self-definition is discussed. (MLW)

The author discusses the use of racial awareness training in staff development programs. He describes the four types of racism: (1) overt institutional, (2) overt personal, (3) covert institutional, and (4) covert personal. He calls for better trainers and training programs. (CH)

A resurgence of racist incidents in the last few years has caused educators concern about hostility to Blacks on campuses. Some colleges have begun programs to sensitize students, faculty, and administrators to racial issues. (MSE)

Two analogies for enrollment management are provided so that the concept may be more easily shared. The characteristics of the most effective organizational climate to ensure the success of an enrollment management strategy are described, and integration of the system is discussed. Additional resources are listed. (Author/MLW)

Organizational analysts argue that formal environmental assessments should be integrated into strategic planning. Guidelines for establishing formal environmental assessment in educational institutions are presented, evaluated, and refined based on the experimental effort of the University of Minnesota. (Author/MLW)

Colleges need to pay more attention to presenting their distinctive character to prospective financial supporters. A framework comprising eight dimensions representing a wide range of human ideals is discussed. The dimensions are: moral, intellectual, egalitarian, spiritual, socio-political, humane, personal development, and tradition. (MLW)

It is the responsibility of faculty as a group to preserve academic freedom by recognizing, acknowledging, and withstanding the pressures against it at every level of the academic enterprise. (MSE)

Foothill College owes its tremendous popularity to the fact that it neither fits into the tradition of the modern movement of architectural art, with its in-group language of heroic forms constructed in brute concrete, nor the more esoteric world that sees high art in commercial strip development and A & P parking lots. (Author)

Article considers the future of colleges and their role in light of current innovative educational theories such as College Without Walls''. (GB)

In 1837 seven professors lost their positions for protesting the king's revocation of Hanover's constitution. (AF)

With a sample of 43 male college students, self ideal self discrepancies were significantly related to some adjustment scales but were independent of the environmental (college and hometown) actual ideal discrepancies. The two environmental discrepancies shared a common variance but were not significantly related to the adjustment scales. (Author)