This paper considers the needs and operations of the "interaction sciences," areas of study that attempt to investigate the relationship of basic fields of knowledge to specific environments, in contrast to the "knowledge sciences." The differences in goals, facilitating environments, and provisions for service are discussed.…

College and University Environments Scales (CUES), an instrument for characterizing the perceived atmosphere of institutions of higher education, was published by the Educational Testing Service in 1963. CUES is probably the most widely used instrument for describing college environments. The purposes of this study were to: (1) provide more…

The purpose of this report was to formulate a definition of health science libraries which would allow them to be objects of study. Four general definitions of health science libraries are presented from the viewpoints of: (1) librarians and managers of libraries as institutions, (2) the institutions or administrative units supporting library…

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."…