To determine critical deficiencies in institutional reform related to accreditation, data from surveys conducted by the Accreditation Council for Facilities for the Mentally Retarded were analyzed. Identified were critical standards with which significant proportions of the facilities surveyed did not comply, formulated was an…

This study examined teacher mobility between 1969-70 and 1971-72 in 36 elementary schools within one school district. Its purpose was to determine the influence of school characteristics on mobility, taking into account the influence of teaching-staff composition. This report describes the (a) relations between school characteristics and the…

Because the impact of college on students is not uniform, this work uses a typological approach to come to grips more adequately with the question of what happens to students who attend four-year colleges. Change, development, and senior "outcomes" are examined for each of 13 groups. The groupings were devised based on a statistical analysis of…

This paper describes a conceptual framework that can order the host of changes occuring in institutional structure as a consequence of recent learner-centered reform in postsecondary education. Several schemata are examined, and a functional systematization of structures suggested; however, none of these purports to be a completely satisfactory…

Universities and colleges are increasingly being called upon to do something about the environment. Most have responded by adding a new program, a new institute or a course, but none of these additions has basically changed the university and its relationship to the community and the environment. The University of Wisconsin at Green Bay started…

The Foster Grandparent Program was started in Nashville, Tennessee, as a demonstration program under the Office of Economic Opportunity; it was designed to help senior citizens support themselves by acting as grandparents to children who do not have their own. At Clover Bottom Hospital and School for the Retarded Child, 13 foster grandmothers work…

Careful definition and measurement of the activities and outcomes of higher education can contribute significantly to the resolution of some of the most vital issues related to the educational enterprise. The inventory of educational outcomes and activities presented in this report is divided into 4 sections: (1) instructional outcomes, including…

Social-psychological data were gathered by questionnaires and the Omnibus Personality Inventory on two entering freshmen classes. A follow-up survey two years later, of students who had withdrawn, determined reasons for withdrawal and the nature of the problems these students experienced while still in attendance. Data suggested that salient…

Most of the techniques that measure college enviromnments are based on student characteristics which are often confused with characteristics of college environments, thus producing many problems for subsequent investigations of college influence. One such technique is the Environmental Assessment Technique (EAT), which describes the environment in…

The subject of youth in America lacks definition and young people are often given stereotyped labels. The reaction of others is frequently to the implied stereotype, rather than to young human beings. The life styles of youth involve questioning the Establishment and its goals, seeking to define the good life and working to create a better…

At the end of the 1968-1969 academic year, a survey was undertaken to determine the nature and extent of campus protests, how their frequency and types vary, how institutional responses to them differ, what institutional policies and practices have been changed because of them, and other related matters. The survey instrument was a questionnaire…

The value systems of faculty at three junior colleges in California (each representing an urban, rural, or suburban character) are compared, and the institutional personality of each college is described in terms of the perceptions held by its instructors. The specific purposes of this study are to: (1) identify the values held by 238 staff…

Environmental interaction in a dayhall housing 31 severely and profoundly retarded adolescents at a Connecticut State institution, was evaluated within the initial existing facility, and the same facility redesigned to provide an enriched environment. (Author)

Nineteen youth from a state institution for indigent and neglected youth were placed in 4 home settings and allowed to attend public schools for 18 months. Results indicated that the currently accepted theory that the de-institutionalization of juveniles promotes social adjustment is valid. (JC)

Research methods for analyzing university learning environments are discussed along with the potential use of such analysis, and a study of one university in the Netherlands is reported indicating distinctive atmospheres found in various departments, each with its own kind of educational problems. (JT)