In the typology of college student subcultures developed by Clark and Trow, four subcultures emerge: (1) the academic, (2) the collegiate, (3) the nonconformist, and (4) the vocation. This study investigated selected psychosocial factors in the four subcultures. The Study of Values and The College Student Questionnaire were administered to 200…

The literature cited suggests that the hippie life style is an extension of life styles of vagabonds, hermits, or ascetics. This style is gaining popularity and helping professionals must recognize that ususally it is the small radical groups who are first to articulate ideas later common to more people. (Author)

This report is the tenth in a series of annual publications produced jointly by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Institute of Education Sciences (IES), in the U.S. Department of Education, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the U.S. Department of Justice. This report presents the most recent data available on school…

Results gathered from administration of College Student Questionnaire to random sample of 210 students later grouped under housing patterns, reveal significant difference of interests especially on academic and collegiate scales. Discusses implications for university-sponsored programs. (CJ)

This article outlines a re-conceptualization of school culture that moves beyond the limited models used hitherto and illustrates its use in an analysis of the Sixth Form culture in a West Midlands school. The approach adopted here is based on a model of school culture that incorporates five distinctive pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that combine to…

In a survey of 30 Mid-Atlantic Region education leaders, improving the achievement of No Child Left Behind subgroups (low-income students, students with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities, and students in major racial and ethnic groups) was the top priority in Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey, despite concerns about the…

Here, the narratives of a group of non-traditional students who entered traditional UK universities are examined. A number of participants felt there was a kind of romance or exotic quality to the sights, sounds and smells of traditional institutions, which constituted part of the attraction. The process of becoming a student at an elite or…

This article investigates how organizational features of high schools interact with students' ascriptive characteristics to shape opportunities to learn. It advances previous research by examining the intersection of students' gender-by-race cohort with their high schools' racial composition on their Grade 12 English track placement in the…

This paper presents the final analysis of a mixed methodological study of participatory action research (PAR) as professional development. The participants were administrators and teachers studying extreme educational disadvantage caused by homeless and transient living conditions. Two questions are answered: 1. What was the experience of…

The kind of stresses members of subcultures (the culture of poverty and the counter culture) experience and the coping mechanisms, defined as cultural lead'', they evolve may be indications of how the bulk of the populations of complex societies will cope with accelerating technical and social change in the future. (Author/JB)

Goes beyond generally accepted views in trying to pinpoint the root causes of student unrest in the universities in the recent past, and tries relating these to the Harvard University strike of 1969. (RJ)

Considers the origins and traits of three common student subcultures: the academics, the delinquents, and the jocks. Suggests steps the school can take to prevent these groups from coming into conflict or from over-influencing their own members. Condensed from "Today's Education," April-May 1980, pp30GS-32GS. (Editor/SJL)

Unrest in the early 1970s stimulated a need to understand undergraduates' motivations. The Clark-Trow Typology (Clark & Trow, 1966) examined student behavior (i.e., academic, collegiate, vocational, and non-conformist) according to identification with the institution and involvement with ideas. The Student Interest Survey included questions…

Contemporary university administrators are usually wimps, and timidity in facing easily enraged campus radicals only invites outrageous demands which, in turn, subvert intellectual life. This must be changed. For much of human history leaders had to display physical valor and this trait should be restored to the college administrator job…