Although access to higher education has increased substantially over the past forty years, student success in college--as measured by persistence and degree attainment--has not improved at all. Thomas Brock reviews systematic research findings on the effectiveness of various interventions designed to help at-risk students remain in college. Brock shows how changes in federal policy and public a...

Recovery colleges offer an educational approach which is believed to develop people's strengths rather than focusing attention on their problems. We have reviewed the literature on this subject, with the aim of determining whether this approach to the management of mental health disorders is socially acceptable. We found preliminary evidence that they are indeed acceptable to families and servi...

The Deferred Acceptance Algorithm (DAA) is the most widely accepted and used algorithm to match students, workers, or residents to colleges, firms or hospitals respectively. In this paper, we consider for the first time, the complexity of manipulating DAA by agents such as colleges that have capacity more than one. For such agents, truncation is not an exhaustive strategy. We present efficient ...

The objective of this study was to profile and compare alcohol and other drug (AOD) use attitudes and behaviors in three pharmacy colleges. Student surveys of AOD use attitudes and behaviors were conducted at one southwestern and two midwestern pharmacy colleges. Response was 86.5% (566/654). Reported past-year use included alcohol 82.8%, tobacco 25.4%, and marijuana 6.9%. Past-year AOD-associa...

INTRODUCTION This paper investigates the use of computer mediated communication (CMC) in colleges of further and higher education in the UK. Analysis is carried out by institutional type as preliminary investigation shows there are considerable differences between universities and colleges in terms of email usage. A total of 30 institutions replied to the survey: 14 Universities and 16 Colleges...

l r a t i w o m i c t w g p o a a There is growing national concern regarding the future adequacy of our physician workforce. The general population aged more than 65 years is predicted to double by 2030, and increased age is commonly accompanied by greater health care needs. The physician population also is aging; 1 in 3 active physicians is currently aged more than 55 years and likely to reti...

INTRODUCTION In 2006, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) issued a recommendation that medical schools increase the supply of physicians by 30% to meet the patient needs of the new millennium. OBJECTIVE To provide financial analysis of the cost of increasing class size. METHODS To determine the financial consequences of increasing medical student enrollment and in the absenc...

119 COVER Tens of thousands of books appear in this photograph of the interior of the sculpture Idiom, by Matej Krén. On page 176, Michel et al. describe an even larger collection: a 5.2-million-book corpus containing 4% of all books ever published. Statistical analysis of this corpus makes it possible to study cultural trends quantitatively.