A stratified random sample of 200 junior and senior undergraduates at the University of Maryland, College Park, was asked to complete a 51 item problem check list. This checklist covered six areas: typical university concerns, psychological concerns, cultural concerns, sexual relations concerns, racial concerns, and group living concerns. The most…

Questionnaires or interviews were completed by 120 Afghan and 125 Iranian students enrolled in American universities, concerning their academic, personal, and social problems. Data were analyzed according to nationality, sex, age, marital status, major, duration of stay in U.S., financial sponsorship, and undergraduate v graduate student status.…

The paradox of American higher education today is that the liberal well-wisher has done more than anyone in the past decade to destroy the university. Although he imagines himself in the vanguard of progress, this guilt-ridden figure is in fact contributing to what he thinks he is opposing, turning out ever more appropriate minions of technology,…

Two studies were conducted to investigate the relationship between Erikson's concept of ego identity and student's attitudes toward college. The results of Study 1 indicated that students who were in the process of going through an identity crisis over occupational choice had the least favorable evaluations of their education, while students who…

The responses of 120 counseling center clients were analyzed to investigate the relationship of perceived family atmosphere with emotional-social clients and vocational-educational clients to determine if they differed in their perceptions of the dominant parent. Chi-square analyses revealed significant relationships at the .05 level of confidence…

For the twenty-first century, higher education's future is promising, but in the meantime, there are problems--demographics, inflation, middle-class backlash--and two less discussed perils: loss of diversity and weakened commitment to science. However, individual institutions have individual futures and many are bright. (Author/LBH)

The Anglo educator views the Asian American as the ideal student: hardworking and not causing trouble. The quiet, passive behavior of Asian American students, however, often signifies problems in verbalization needing attention. The verbal problems of the Asian American student can be viewed as the product of a cycle involving the Asian American…

Examines some of the problems related to the process in counselor education and suggests changes in one of the basic assumptions of most training programs. (Author)

Although the systematic study of black people is much needed and long overdue, black studies programs as they exist are faced with problems and pressures concerning the way they have been created. Responding to black students demand for such programs, in some cases colleges have acted in haste and neither have recruited well-trained,…

Concern that nursing educators' pre-occupation with nontraditional programs (such as open curriculum, career ladders, challenge exams, and external degrees) may operate to the detriment of baccalaureate programs in nursing for generic students is expressed. (Author/MS)

It was concluded that level of adjustment measured by the PSI is not a personality dimension that offers reliable diagnostic discriminations between clients with self-diagnosed vocational and educational problems. Counselors wishing to make the distinction between V and E clients must depend on the person's self-diagnosis and a complete…