For a range of extrinsic and intrinsic value orientations, values held by students at entrance to college are the best predictors of values three years later. It is shown that important secondary predictors include sex (female), and characteristics of the student's major department (academic discipline and student/faculty social relationships).…

The utility of field experience education for furthering cognitive development is examined through an anaylsis of the psychological and sociological dynamics of the specific field program design. Outcomes are identified and related to existing theories of cognitive development. (Author/LBH)

Formative and summative uses of students' ratings place conflicting demands on the composition of a rating form, but these conflicts are minimized when faculty partially control the content of evaluation. Under those criteria, the purposes served by students' ratings complement each other. Diagnostic use of ratings to improve instruction is…

The writings of educational theorists, including W. E. B. DuBois and contemporary critics, are reviewed in this assessment of Black colleges in the U.S. The Black college experience, shown to have continued to expose students to a double culture, helped them develop a double consciousness, and taught them to seek a double victory. (LBH)

The distinctive patterns of personal and career incentives of faculty affiliated with different types of colleges and universities reaffirms the centrality of organizational diversity to informed descriptions of American higher education. A refinement of the Carnegie Commission typology is offered to aid in the systematic study of organizational…

Disciplinary groups of faculty in small liberal arts colleges hold significantly different perspectives on teaching-learning goals and approaches for achieving them. The pattern of differences identified seems more complex than attitudinal dichotomies previously advanced by researchers studying faculty views across diverse types of institutions.…

Participants in a faculty development program increased their use of instructional technologies compared to a larger sample of nonparticipating members. The participants also contacted a large number of colleagues to discuss instructional matters, which resulted in increased awareness and influenced attitudes of others, though they resulted in…

Multiple regression analysis was used to test the hypothesis that student informal interaction with faculty significantly influences freshman-year "over-" and "underachievement." After controlling for pre-enrollment characteristics, interactions focusing on intellectual and career concerns were found to have significant, but diminishing returns…

A practical evaluation model is described in four phases: (1) a pre-planning stage, specifying the purpose of the evaluation; (2) a planning stage, specifying all steps of the evaluation process; (3) the evaluation process itself where information is collected and judgments are made; and (4) a macro evaluation, summarizing and reviewing the…

The ingredients of an academic program development plan, with special attention to the processes and criteria supporting decisions on program priorities, are delineated. External and internal inputs to decision-making are discussed and three case examples are given. Major considerations involved in integrating budgetary decisions are identified.…

A questionnaire was developed to obtain student perceptions of the quality of departmental academic programs to aid in an overall departmental program evaluation. Student majors in 48 academic departments were surveyed. Descriptions of questionnaire development, reporting procedures, statistical properties, and data on questionnaire utility are…

Determinants of tuition prices in major state universities are identified in this study. Twenty-two variables accounted for 89 percent of the variation in 1976-77 tuition levels. Primary determinants were related to competition--tuition prices at institutions within the state or region--and to shortfalls in institutional income. (Author/LBH)

Financial aid has historically rewarded accomplished students or assisted needy ones. Recent policies reflect a new goal: to increase college enrollment. The power of financial aid to change prospective students' minds is assessed in this study. It is found that most aid intended to attract new students would go to students who would have enrolled…

Disagreements over budgeting are often resolved by using political power. A critique of definitions of political behavior is presented and an alternative is proposed that is applicable to groups and individuals and that addresses both the intentions and effects of political action. (Author/LBH)

The relationships between state government funding methods and instructional innovation in public higher education are explored in this study. It is argued that stimulating instructional innovation is socially and educationally productive and that fiscal and budgetary strategies available to state-level decision-makers may be used to stimulate…