Findings suggest that Holland's theory of vocational choice can assist in the interpretation of goal priorities within the academic community. Suggestions indicate how this theory might be employed by university administrators and in subsequent research on the administration of academic departments and the roles of their chairmen. (Editor/PG)

This paper compares academic achievement of the University of Calgary undergraduate population with that of transfer students from Alberta community colleges for 1968-1972. Results indicate that transferring students do not succeed academically as well as the total university student population. (Editor/PG)

This study represented an initial effort to explore the potential of the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) as an instrument for the measurement of job satisfaction in institutions of higher learning. The JDI is a standardized measure of five dimensions of job satisfaction that has been used in noneducational organizations. (Editor/PG)

The present experiment employed a Program Student Achievement (PA) procedure that required that the student evidence 100 percent mastery of discrete units of material. The performance of PA students was found to be significantly superior to that of control students on both weekly quizzes and major exams. (Editor/PG)

This study examined selected measures of demographic, social, and academic characteristics for a male disciplinary population at Villanova University, to determine the usefulness of these variables in predicting membership in a disciplinary group from one graduating class to the next. (Editor/PG)

This article outlines a technique for analyzing segments of a college's market for students. Careful scrutiny of the segments in which the college has a limited appeal (programs for high-ability male students, or tuition schedules based on parental income) may suggest strategies for improving the college's performance in those segments. (Editor/PG)

This paper tests a multivariate theory of family status, socialization, and student politics employing two different methodological techniques: (1) the popular path analysis method as compared with (2) a modified causal analysis approach. Results reveal that both techniques appear to be a reliable check on one another. (Editor/PG)

The voting patterns for the committees and the constitutency council were investigated at the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Dakota, with a major interest in any factionalization in the voting patterns. Generally, the effectiveness of voting blocks was rather limited. (Editor/PG)

The purpose of this research was to determine if students taking the experimental course, Crises in Human Relations, showed significant reductions in dogmatism and if changes occurred, how these changes compared to those found for other students exposed to specified University experiences and for control groups. (Author)

Analyzes the early academic achievement of disadvantaged, mainly black, students admitted to the Special Educational Opportunities Program at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. (Editor)

Shows how systems of regions within which interstate migration flows are relatively great can be determined using state-to-state college migration data. Measures of the strength of regional identities are computed, and comparisons are made between regional systems obtained when intrastate flows are taken into account and when they are not.…

The extent to which postsecondary access and choice are promoted by the scholarship and grant programs in California, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania is examined. Findings: these programs induce a substantial number of students from low-income families to attend, are particularly helpful to women, and are responsible for the attendance of…

A comparison of two forms of the College Entrance Examination Board's (CEEB) English Composition Test with four rhetoric final examinations in a basic English composition course indicated that the CEEB was more stable and yielded better item statistics while departmental examinations were more highly related to course grade. (Editor/JT)

The NSF's University Science Statistics Program Integrated Data Base and CHI Research's bibliometric database were used in a study of the relationships among research resources, as measured by R&D expenditures, and research output, as measured by the quantity and visibility of scientific journal articles. (Author/MLW)

A model of departmental support expenditures is constructed. The requirements for administrative and technical staff and for operating funds of a university's academic units were analyzed, and these were related to a number of quantitative characteristics of the units. (Author/MLW)