The major purposes of this study were to identify the effects of personal characteristics of teachers and institutional characteristics of schools on teacher mobility. The methodology involved multiple regression analyses of mobility measures on personal characteristic variables and on institutional characteristics with control for personal…

The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of students living in a quiet resident hall to assess how they differed from other resident hall students personally and in terms of their environmental perceptions of the University of Missouri at Columbia. Thirty-five students were randomly selected from 2 "quiet" halls and…

The ombudsman model offers large residential facilities for the mentally retarded a way of meeting the needs of the people who live there and monitoring institutional dysfunction. (JG/Author)

Provides further insight into the relationship between facility ownership and facility performance in nursing homes. Found proprietary nursing homes to have lower costs than not-for-profit and government homes. Measures of quality, however, may be inadequate to assess the psychosocial quality aspects of environments. (Author/ABB)

Specially trained inmates in a maximum security prison supervised a play area in the prison visiting room where children could play in a safe and structured way with materials appropriate to their developmental needs. Children were thus able to master, in age-appropriate ways, the circumstances of the visiting room. (Author/CMG)

This paper provides psychological and sociological substance to Kurt Lewin's conceptions of topological territories. (Author/AM)

This monograph describes the work of five Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) sites designed to streamline and rationalize local juvenile detention systems and to reduce overcrowding in juvenile detention centers, thus improving conditions and saving jurisdictions money in overtime and additional staff and millions of dollars to…

Discusses several studies that attempted to employ a Lawrence and Lorsch theory of organization in school settings. The theory relates organizational differentiation and integration to environmental demands. (Author/JF)

"The results of this study support the proposition that the application of environmental assessment techniques based on CUES items provides information which can help evaluate the formal goals of an institution in terms of the degree to which the institutional environment is facilitative of those goals. (Author)

Attaining enrollment stabilization begins with a critical evaluation of the college's image as seen by its constituencies. (Editor)

Morrill and Hurst present their new role of the college counselor in the university setting. They discuss the rationale for an "outreach" model and see the counseling psychologist as an "architect" of an effective learning environment, rather than an individual overwhelmed with the "casualties of ineffective environments and behavioral deficits."…

Rochdale College, Toronto, Canada, the most ambitious, student-operated "free university in North America, is the antithesis of the conventional college. Its graffiti, drugs, sounds, smells and style shatter the usual academic yardsticks. But one summer of 1969 has brought some law and order to the college, now in its second year of…

Social climate of residential alcoholism programs was assessed using Community-Oriented Programs Environment Scale (COPES). COPES perceptions were independent of patient background, psychosocial functioning, and alcohol-related characteristics. In conjunction with previous research, results indicate perceptions of social climate of treatment…

The emergence of a coherent image of adult and continuing education has been hindered by a number of factors. First, diversity of practice has impeded a sense of common identity. Second, programs usually operate on the margins of sponsoring institutions. Third, uncertain funding and underfunding have made basic survival a high priority. (SK)