A survey concerning external funding for research for the 338 member institutions of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is summarized. Results indicate that institutions successful in obtaining outside funds tend to place more emphasis on graduate teaching and internally and externally funded research. (Author/MLW)

Information about personal background, professional activities, job satisfaction, and career appraisal, gathered by a questionnaire administered to a sample of full-time faculty in Minnesota colleges and universities, is presented. Results of the survey are compared to results of earlier surveys in 1956 and 1968. (Author/MLW)

The impact of (1) college experiences, (2) attribution beliefs and attitudes about punitiveness, (3) educational and academic characteristics, and (4) freshmen level of moral judgment development on the level of moral development of upper-division students is reported. For freshmen with high moral reasoning scores, participation in extracurricular…

A state survey of all two-year colleges in New York focused on the assessment of academic advising in order to facilitate recommendations for institutional policymaking. Questions were asked about preservice and inservice training of advisers, and the evaluation of advisers and the advising process. (Author/MLW)

A study in which Filipino and American undergraduate students rated college instructor characteristics according to their perceived importance for effective teaching is discussed. Filipino students rated items pertaining to authoritarianism and personal appearance of the instructor as significantly more important for effective teaching than did…

A study of professional activity in retirement of emeriti, including emeriti who left the University of Iowa community after retirement and emeriti who continued to live in the community for part of the year, is discussed. Interviews were conducted with 113 emeritus professors. (Author/MLW)

The effectiveness of peer-centered and instructor-centered formats for teaching-assistant led discussion sections in chemistry was examined. Students with interpersonally oriented learning styles benefited more from interactive learning opportunities while those with other learning styles gained more from impersonal media such as textbooks.…

Using 276 students from Boston University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the relationships between types of students and their work values and motivational profiles were investigated by means of factor and discriminant analyses. The vocational model is contrasted with the collegiate, nonconformist, and academic groups. (Author/MLW)

A study of the persistence behavior of students who drop college courses included predictions concerning which students were most likely to drop courses, which courses were most likely to be dropped, and at what point in the semester students were most likely to drop courses. (Author/MLW)

The history of evaluations of academic departments through peer review rankings and subsequent attempts to identify empirical correlates of the ratings are reviewed. Findings indicate that American Council on Education rankings can be predicted by the departmental rate of publication in highly cited journals. (Author/MLW)

A study conducted in Israel and the United States to develop a scale of students' satisfaction with college instruction, to assess the dimensions behind the scale, and to examine four predictors (sex, major, school year, and academic performance) that may affect satisfaction with instruction is presented. (Author/MLW)

A study of the increase in numbers of administrative personnel at four regional universities in Kentucky during an 11-year period is described. The growth in number of administrators and administrative staff exceeded that of other indicators of university growth such as number of faculty, students, and graduates. (Author/MLW)

Five groups of undergraduate students (dropouts, low stopouts, low persisters, high stopouts, and high persisters) were compared in terms of their use of various campus facilities and their responses to a checklist of personal problems. The use of campus facilities is correlated with continuance in school. (Author/MLW)

A study on a survey of department heads in 25 major universities that examines what department heads perceive to be the component parts in making assignments to faculty is discussed. The importance of evaluating faculty based on effort required rather than on time devoted to given tasks is stressed. (Author/MLW)

The potential utility of a college admissions test as a measure of the cognitive learning outcomes of general education is investigated. A residual form of the ACT Assessment was administered to a stratified random sample of 112 seniors at Tennessee Technological University. (Author/MLW)