A three-part questionnaire was designed to assess the needs of the commuter student at the University of San Francisco. The questionnaire, mailed to 250 commuter students, investigated the university student services; desired services, facilities, and activities; and the reason for living off-campus. Results of the survey indicated: (1) Full-time…

The aim of the present study is to assess the education-employment adjustment processes for Canadian science manpower during the late 1950's and 1960's in order to gain insights which will be useful in dealing with problems of the 1970's. Using both objective and subjective information, it analyzes individuals' education and career patterns…

Because cohabitation generally begins casually with no explicit understanding and because there are few outside pressures holding the couple together, it would seem that this type of living arrangement would be characterized by brevity; this is not the case. Since cohabitation arrangements are generally not brief but long lasting, their…

Little is presently known of the implications and consequences of rehospitalizations of former mental patients. This research attempts to assess the consequences of rehospitalization for the patient, his family and for the professional (his psychiatric social worker) who attempted to serve him while he lived in the community. It examines the ways…

Based on the contract grading system, this language arts course guide focuses on reading, writing, research, and film projects on topics which give people the "heebie-jeebies" and for which students earn points toward a final grade. Point values are dependent on the difficulty of the project or the length of the reading material. Contents of the…

Ninety-four colleges administered the College Senior Survey, a machine-readable questionnaire, designed to investigate the educational plans of seniors (class of 71), attitudes toward work, the college, student backgrounds, feelings about academic performance, college careers, accomplishments outside the classroom, and perceptions of various…

This paper describes the reflections of college seniors on their four years at a small liberal arts school on the verge of major changes. A random probability sample of the senior class of 1972 were interviewed during their final semester before graduation. This class received a relatively traditional education and represents the before group in a…

This paper reports the recruitment, socialization, and retention of a faculty of medicine. The study shows the process of M.D. and Ph.D. conversion to academic medicine through socialization and the factors which affect retention and attrition of a medical faculty. The research utilizes Sherlock and Morris' professional development paradigm. As…

The Fifth Annual Report of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching covers the following: a) the center's program; b) a descriptive overview of the center; c) center resume; d) program and project register; e) Program 03, The Environment for Teaching; f) Program 04, Teaching the Disadvantaged; g) Program 05, Heuristic Teaching;…

The purpose of this review was to investigate the relationship between counselor characteristics and reports of effectiveness. The theoretical position appears to focus on two opposing views. The humanists emphasize the influence of intuition, genuineness, and spontaneity, while the behaviorists place importance on technique, analysis of…

The utilization of personal space as a function of race and sex was the subject of this investigation. The specific focus of the study was to discover if blacks within American society learn and enact different personal space definitions from those of the majority culture. A 2 x 2 factorial analysis of variance with repeated measures on two…

The Involvement Inventory, an instrument that measures a respondent's active involvement in life in three arenas--people, things, and ideas--was examined to determine its concurrent validity and ability to differentiate among high school students who have varying involvement with drugs. The inventory related well to other scales which measure…

A review of course evaluation results for 1973-74 at New College leads to the following summary conclusions: (1) Approximately 62 percent of the New College students responded to course evaluation questionnaires. (2) Courses in the humanities area received the highest ratings by the students over the year and courses in the liberal arts area…

This paper reports on exploratory studies to determine whether sex differences in the attribution process are operative among first-level management positions. Studies were conducted within several organizations using similar procedures in each. First-level management males and females, matched as closely as possible, were asked to describe an…

This study provides evidence for the validity of the Social Adequacy subscales of the Psychosocial Maturity Inventory: Social Commitment, Tolerance, and Openness to Change. A group of students who invested substantial time and energy in social action projects directed toward helping others was compared with a randomly chosen control group. The…