This study investigated the relationship between psychological sense of community and various personal and contextual factors (e.g., gender, race, major department and residence) at a public university in the eastern United States. Undergraduate students (N=2,047) responded to a questionnaire targeted to a student body of 10,500 that assessed…

Many college and university administrators have responded to the recent increase in hateful incidents on campus by putting hate speech codes into place. The establishment of speech codes has sparked a heated debate over the impact that such codes have upon free speech and First Amendment values. Some commentators have suggested that viewing hate…

What is known about freshman students, especially about their lived experience, is fragmentary and unsystematic. This study attempted to construct a comprehensive portrait of the daily experience of freshmen at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. A total of 24 students (20 women, 4 men) participated in the study during a 3-month period.…

Article described Simon's Rock, a four-year, coeducational, liberal arts college at the edge of Great Barrington, in the southwest corner of Massachusetts, designed to help 16-year-olds leap from high school to the freedom and responsibilities of college life. (Author/RK)

Designed for all persons who conduct classes and for staff, administrators, and students, this booklet lays out guidelines for nonsexist communication. The booklet, intended both to raise consciousness about how sexist communication looks and sounds and to suggest nonsexist alternatives, is composed of four main sections. The first section…

Campus rape, and awareness of it, is increasing. However, the lack of victims who are willing to "come out" makes for difficulty in gathering data that can influence policy-makers and resource distributors. Two major types of campus rape are discussed, each calling for different approaches to prevention. Important aspects of each type of…

This study sought to determine whether there are differences of instructor attitude toward occupational and academic students that would detract from or counter the efforts to provide a satisfactory environment for the occupational student. A semantic differential instrument was constructed and administered to 148 faculty members from…

The purpose of this study is to use some techniques developed for describing the environments of U.S. universities to explore the correlation between national characteristics and university characteristics in the British Commonwealth. Because such techniques have been little used outside the U.S., the study first examines their appropriateness for…

This report describes the results of 2 questionnaires designed to measure students' perceptions of and satisfaction with aspects of their small liberal arts college environment. The test was administered to samples of students enrolled in the experimental program, alternates (students who had volunteered for the experimental program but were not…

Faculty course load requirements and their relationship to college size (small, medium, or large), location (north, south, middle, or west), and degree of faculty participation in work condition policy determination were the concern of this National Faculty Association of Community and Junior Colleges' study. Of the 993 junior colleges contacted,…

This study of Haverford College is akin to a case study; it illustrates how a model can be used to order the developmental process, to illuminate potential types of maturing effects, to explore the relation between an institution and the growth of its members, and to suggest hypotheses about healthy growth. The methods, findings, and implications…

In the foreword and preface to this lecture Margaret Lindsey, Columbia University Teachers College, reviews the contributions of Florence B. Stratemeyer to the field of student teaching, and Normand R. Bernier, University of Wisconsin, sketches the social and political turmoil forming the context for ferment in teacher education. The three parts…

This study is concerned with the initial testing of an instrument which examines student discipline in terms of four areas: goals and objectives of the discipline program, scope of the program, procedures and sanctions. This investigation by the Center for the Study of Evaluation has been undertaken as part of the Higher Education Evaluation…

The College and Environment Scales Survey (CUES) was administered during the winter of 1973 to students who had completed at least four quarters at the University of California (UC) Irvine campus. This report indicated student perceptions of the atmosphere of the campus according to the resident or nonresident status of the student. Emphasis is…

Is it possible that the "unprecedented refusal of the campus community to carry on with academic work per usual" in May of 1970 had no significant effect on American higher education. The authors of the two studies in this report do not think so. Part one studies the national campus reaction to Cambodia and Kent State and part two…