Results of a survey comparing attitudes and levels of satisfaction between resident college students and commuting college students. (GB)

Focusing on freshmen commuter students and freshmen dormitory students at Johnson and Wales College, general characteristics and academic achievement were measured. General entrance characteristics included student age, College Entrance Examination Board scores and high school rank. Academic achievement was measured in terms of student grades in…

The data suggest that the family's socioeconomic status is significantly related to the decision to be a resident student or a commuting student. Also, the two groups do seem to have different manifest personality needs, especially when socioeconomic factors are taken into consideration. (Author)

Commuting students make up sixty-two percent of the fall 1975 student body and represent the principal source of enrollment growth at UNC-G. The Office of Institutional Research conducted a survey of 2,140 commuter and resident students in the spring of 1975. A stratified random sample was designed so that students in the different undergraduate…

The commuting university student has traditionally been characterized in educational literature as less affluent, intellectually less sophisticated and more closely tied to home and family than his peer who lives in university housing. Such generalizations, while historically accurate, do not take into account factors that are bringing older,…

The following questions are investigated: Are there identifiable dimensions along which resident and commuter students systematically differ? If there are differences, will the commuting student appear to be educationally, socially, and attitudinally disadvantaged as suggested by several studies? Can subgroups of commuters be defined with…

Those who design educational policy, as well as those who plan to go to college, need to know what societal benefits derive from higher education, for whom the college experience is effective, and what aspects of the experience are valuable to what students. To investigate such concerns, a study was initiated in 1964: (1) to describe to faculty,…

This report is one of a series reporting data from an 11-year longitudinal study of two random samples of 100 students each, selected from the 1966 and 1967 entering freshman classes at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The study spans 10 years for each group. Responses from 60 of the 100 students in the 1966 sample and 54 of the 1967…

The student profile consists of numerical data with some analysis, derived from an institution-wide study of student characteristics that may bear upon planning processes, especially for racial and ethnic groups. The data include demographic characteristics (race, sex, age, geographic origin, and resident status), maturational characteristics…