ADJUSTING THE COLLEGE TO AMERICAN LIFE

The college life experiences of African American women athletes.

The present study provides a descriptive analysis of four areas of African American women student athletes' college life experiences: academic performance; alienation and abuse; perceived social advantage as the result of athletics; and life satisfaction. Multivariate comparisons were made between the four areas of college life experiences of 154 African American women student athletes and 793 ...

The American College

The American College. By Isaac Sharpless. The American Books Series. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. "The American College" is the title of a little handbook by Isaac Sharpless, President of Haverford College. Its aim is "to give to the general reader a fair idea, hiding neither blemishes nor virtues of that peculiarly national institution:" and, if the blemishes are more apparent than the virtues...

Supportive College Environment for Meaning Searching and Meaning in Life Among American College Students

The American College of Rheumatology

Criteria for the classification of giant cell (temporal) arteritis were developed by comparing 214 patients who had this disease with 593 patients with other forms of vasculitis. For the traditional format classification, 5 criteria were selected: age 1 5 0 years at disease onset, new onset of localized headache, temporal artery tenderness or decreased temporal artery pulse, elevated erythrocyt...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...