Contributor
Adelson, Joseph.
Imprint:New York : Wiley, [1962]
Descriptionxvi, 1084 p. : diagrs., tables ; 24 cm.
Note:Part I. GENERAL: Higher education as a social problem / Nevitt Sanford -- Higher education as a field of study / Nevitt Sanford -- The viability of the American college / David Riesman, Christopher Jencks -- Part II. THE ENTERING STUDENT: Motivational factors in college entrance / Elizabeth Donovan, Carol Kaye -- The diverse college student population / T.R. McConnell, Paul Heist -- Developmental status of the entering freshman / Nevitt Sanford -- Part III. ACADEMIC PROCEDURES: Changing functions of the college professor / Robert Knapp -- Procedures and techniques of teaching: a survey of experimental studies / W.J. McKeachie -- Personality and interpersonal relations in the college classroom / Joseph Katz -- The teacher as a model / Joseph Adelson -- The curriculum in the perspective of the theory of personality development / Joseph Katz, Nevitt Sanford -- Economic pressures and the professor / Anthony Ostroff -- Part IV. STUDENT SOCIETY AND STUDENT CULTURE: Student peer-group influence / Theodore M. Newcomb -- Student culture at Vasssar / John H. Bushnell -- Student culture and academic effort / Everett Hughes, Howard Becker, Blanche Geer -- Part V. STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN RELATION TO EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: Personality, college environments, and academic productivity / Donald Brown -- Fields of study and the people in them / Carl Bereiter, Melvin B. Freedman -- Students and the occupational world / David Beardslee, Donald O'Dowd -- Dropouts from college / John Summerskill -- Part VI. INTERACTIONS OF STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS: Some social-psychological theory for selecting and guiding college students / Joshua A. Fishman -- Environments for learning / George G. Stern -- Patterns of residential education: a case study of Harvard / Christopher Jencks, David Riesman -- Freedom and authority on campus / Harold Taylor -- Part VII. THE EFFECTS OF COLLEGE EDUCATION: Personality changes in college students / Harold Webster, Melvin B. Freedman, Paul Heist -- Studies of college alumni / Mervin B. Freedman -- Part VIII. HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL CONTEXT: The place of higher education in a changing society / Campbell Stewart -- The crisis of the state universities: analysis and remedies / Frank Pinner -- A social theory of higher education / Christian Bay -- EPILOGUE: Research and policy in higher education / Nevitt Sanford.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies.
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