The Transfer of Cultural Assumptions About American Higher Education in a Global Society: Perceptions of Visiting Russian Scholars
C. Carney Strange, Advisor This study examined the transfer of ideas about higher education gleaned from Russian administrators and faculty members, who returned to home institutions in the former Soviet Union following an exchange visit to the United States to gain insight into the workings of our complex higher education model. At the core of this assessment were these Russian educators’ perceptions of institutional output and process goals attributed to the U.S. institutions that hosted them, and their comparative experiences and expectations in the Russian system. The instrument used in this study is an adaptation of the Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI), a 95-item, Likert-type measure (Peterson, 1970) that assesses the importance attributed to 13 institutional output and 9 institutional process goals. For purposes of this study each goal was evaluated by respondents, as they perceived its associated items to reflect what they observed in the U.S., what they experience in their home institutions, and what they idealize for institutional aspiration in the Russian system. Data were gathered on-line through a Web-based survey, offered both in English and Russian, with minor modifications for clearer cross-cultural understanding. Through a combination of program participant lists, electronic networks, and direct solicitation, this method yielded a usable sample of 70 respondents, all of whom were individuals with careers in various disciplines from colleges and universities in the former Soviet Union.
The History of Russia
A basic reference guide to Slavic and East European collec tions in major libraries, archives, and research institutions in the United States and Canada. The result of a cooperative undertaking involving forty institutions and numerous in dividual area and library specialists, this handbook provides researchers and librarians with a descriptive "map" of essen tial resources in the field. Appendix. Bibliography.
A study of the local tissue reactions in man to cortisone and compound F. VI. Histopathological studies of the local effect of compound F in normal and pathologic skin of man.
After our previous negative studies (1) of the local effect of cortisone acetate in the skin of man, a year ago, a parallel study of 17-hydroxycorticosterone-21-acetate, Compound F, was outlined. Theoretically, Compound F should be the active steroid. It was so suggested by Rothman (2), that in all probability Compound F and not cortisone would be active locally in the skin of man.