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Boyles, R.; And Others – 1980
An ecosystems environmental assessment project was conducted in order to evaluate the residence hall environment at Indiana University, Bloomington campus. Students (N=637), representing a response rate of 67%, completed questionnaires during October 1979. Items about which most students expressed strong feelings, positive or negative, included…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Housing, College Students, Dormitories
REYNOLDS, MAYNARD C.; STUNKARD, CLAYTON L. – 1960
THE PRESENT STUDY REPRESENTS AN EXTENSION OF A STUDY WHICH DEALT WITH THE LATER ADJUSTMENT OF INDIVIDUALS DISCHARGED FROM A STATE INSTITUTION FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED. THIS EFFORT REWORKED AVAILABLE DATA TO DEVELOP A MORE EFFICIENT TECHNIQUE OF PREDICTION AND TO STUDY FURTHER INTERACTIONS AMONG THE VARIOUS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GROUP. IN…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Day Schools, Family Life, Handicapped Children
Cowley, W. H. – 1956
A growing proportion of the producers of American belles-lettres belong to the academic guild. The private patrons of writers of earlier periods have few counterparts today, and colleges and universities have taken over and enlarged the function they performed: to give writers both the wherewithal for living and a habitat, thus performing a haven…
Descriptors: Authors, Creativity, Financial Support, Futures (of Society)
Dobrof, Rose; Litwak, Eugene – 1977
This manual is based upon a study of 247 old people and their families and five long-term care facilities in New York City. The data indicate that what families do for their aged kin in institutions makes a difference to the older person, and that the ability of families to maintain contact with their institutionalized relative depends, in part,…
Descriptors: Attendants, Family Involvement, Family Relationship, Family Role
Roberts, Chester F. – 1968
To define factors associated with administrative policy and staff orientation and to examine ward responses and reactions to these factors, data were gathered by several techniques from wards and staff in two selected study camps. Although wide variations in staff orientation and administrative policy characterized the camps, no significant…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrative Policy, Attitudes, Delinquency
Drucker, Peter F.; And Others – 1966
The symposium was a result of an experimental alumni education program at Oakland University which was sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation and brought about by Oakland's intent to establish a new university relationship with its graduates based on continuing education. In "The University in an Educated Society" Peter Drucker speaks of learning…
Descriptors: Alumni Education, Anxiety, Educational Change, General Education
Jones, J. B. – 1972
This paper was based upon the thesis that there are environments which will effect positive relationships between people and will regulate their modes of thought and subsequent actions. It was further postulated that there is an ordering of values by rural residents and a corresponding urban ordering of values. In view of the foregoing, it was…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes
Kaye, Valerie – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1978
Attention has focused recently on the educational neglect of children in the hospital. Author visits a children's hospital school which tries to allow children to live rather than merely exist. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Case Studies, Educational Needs, Educational Problems

Wiles, David K.; Rockoff, Edward – Journal of Law and Education, 1978
Explores the legal implications of inschool suspension practices through consideration of individual versus institutional rights within a punitive-rehabilitative setting. Discusses the applicability of the prison hospital model to schools and argues that future legal action may challenge the viability of inschool suspension practices. (Author/JG)
Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, Hospitals

Kurtz, John J.; Kyle, David G. – Social Work, 1977
A significant correlation has been found between life satisfaction in the later years of life and the accomplishment of developmental tasks, which is taken as indicative of a person's continued growth. This study explored another variable of the same theme: the relationship of the exercise of responsibility to life satisfaction. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Decision Making, Individual Power, Institutional Environment

Smith, David Charles – Academe, 1985
A national project of the Society for Values in Higher Education examined comprehensive values studies at eight colleges and universities. The possibility that dialog about values might improve campus decision making was explored. The place of academic freedom in the discussion of values is described. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Administration, Conflict, Cultural Influences
Unger, Karen V. – 1997
This paper discusses the discrimination against individuals with psychiatric disabilities in educational institutions and how the transition from discrimination to acceptance is occurring. It examines the characteristics of those who return to educational institutions, why they return, and the specific needs of individuals with psychiatric…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adults, Educational Strategies
Smith, Larry L.; Millar, Dan P. – 2002
This guide offers suggestions to college administrators for dealing with a variety of emergency or crisis situations that could affect a community college's effectiveness. The authors used the Institute for Crisis Management's (ICM) four types of crises in higher education as the framework for the guide. The four types of crises are: (1) sudden;…
Descriptors: Accidents, Administration, Budgets, Community Colleges
Bryden, John M. – 2000
There was a notable transition in the nature, content, and administration of rural policies in many developed nations in the 1980s and 1990s. These changes concerned issues of governance and institutional framework, the definition of "development," and policy goals and content. A key question, however, concerns the extent to which shifts…
Descriptors: Community Development, Decentralization, Developed Nations, Economic Development

Van Fleet, Alanson – High School Journal, 1979
This article discusses the social and educational conditions that have supported the development of teacher centers, using a perspective from social anthropology, Malinowski's "functional" theory of institutions. Teacher centers are seen as a reflection of growing teacher power in a climate of shifting authority structures. (SJL)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Needs