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1. Higher Education in the South in the Next 20 Years.

Author

Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. and Blackwell, Gordon W.

Abstract

It is difficult to perceive what the South will be like in 1988, but one may generally expect increased urbanization, industrialization, a more complex society, and more leisure time. Trends already indicate a decreasing proportion of labor employed in goods-producing industries and a greater demand for workers in professional, technical and service industries. Education's role in economy should be to develop the quality of human resources necessary to keep up with and influence the region's growth. On the basis of current goals, the forecast for higher education might be: approximately 60% of the eligible population will be attending college (still a lag behind the national level); some private institutions will have become state institutions and others will have closed in bankruptcy; publicly controlled institutions will claim 85% of the region's college students; more than 50% of the Negro students will be enrolled in other than traditionally Negro institutions; acceleration of graduate education will continue, particularly in research; tuition will have tripled in both private and public institutions, but state and federal aid for students will have increased; academic innovations will be more acceptable; college and trustee roles will be more precisely defined and closely related to their institutions; there will be more planning and coordination of interstate university programs; admission and retention standards will be published by all institutions so that students may take advantage of the region's variety of curricula. (WM)

Published
1968

5. News and Notes

Author

Barkas, Benjamin W., Stark, Harry, Blackwell, Gordon W., Hopkins, William S., Dodge, Witherspoon, and Harper, Shirley F.

Published
1953

9. Briefer Comment

Author

Gillin, John, Manes, Alfred, Blackwell, Gordon W., Brooks, Lee M., Masuoka, Jitsuichi, Groves, Ernest R., Macon, Helen L., and Kattsoff, Louis O.

Published
1946

12. Impact Study of Post-Secondary Financial Aid in South Carolina. Technical Report No. 1.

Author

South Carolina Coll. Council. Greenville. and Blackwell, Gordon W.

Abstract

The South Carolina Impact Study, a formal research project designed to describe the effects of changing patterns of institutional and student financing on postsecondary enrollments, is described. It has as its objectives to: (l) examine the enrollment patterns and characteristics of the September freshman classes of 1972 and 1977; (2) relate identifiable changes to recognizable influences, including changes in federal, state, and institutional financial aid offerings and to other policies and practices that might affect enrollment patterns; (3) formulate findings so as to maximize their utility for specific audiences (such as legislators, college officials with planning responsibilities, and state agencies); and (4) disseminate findings actively. This report traces trends in postsecondary undergraduate enrollment, costs of postsecondary education in South Carolina, and student financial aid in those institutions in South Carolina. Numerous tables are presented, including such information as average student budgets, tuition revenues as a percentage of institutional expenditures, parental contributions, available state and federal student aid (aggregate and by type), indexes of change of federal programs, and percentages of first-time freshmen and senior SAT test-takers by sex, race, educational goal, family income, and other demographic factors. Most tables give statistics for the years 1972 through 1976. (MSE)

Published
1978

13. Impact Study of Post-Secondary Financial Aid in South Carolina. Technical Report No. 2.

Author

South Carolina Coll. Council. Greenville. and Blackwell, Gordon W.

Abstract

The South Carolina Impact Study, a formal research project designed to describe the effects of changing patterns of institutional and student financing on postsecondary enrollments, is described. It has as its objectives to: (1) examine the enrollment patterns and characteristics of the September freshman classes of 1972 and 1977; (2) relate identifiable changes to recognizable influences, including changes in federal, state, and institutional financial aid offerings and to other policies and practices that might affect enrollment patterns; (3) formulate findings so as to maximize their utility for specific audiences (such as legislators, college planners, and state agencies); and (4) disseminate findings actively. This second report describes the results of a survey administered to a stratified random sample of South Carolina undergraduate students on campuses in the state during the spring of 1978. The survey instrument was the Student Resource Survey, a questionnaire developed by the College Board. Students were surveyed at seven types of institutions: predominantly white four-year public colleges, the predominantly Black four-year public college, the two-year regional campuses, the predominantly Black and predominantly white four-year private colleges, two-year private colleges, and the Technical Education Center campuses. Four of ten responded. Data are included on: respondents' general personal, academic, and financial circumstances; costs; family resources used in defraying costs; the role of financial aid; various patterns of student financing at the different types of institutions; and the students reasons for their college choices. (MSE)

Published
1978

14. Impact Study of Post-Secondary Financial Aid in South Carolina. Technical Report No. 4.

Author

South Carolina Coll. Council. Greenville. and Blackwell, Gordon W.

Abstract

In this fourth report of the Impact Study, a formal research project designed to describe the effects of changing patterns of institutional and student financing on postsecondary enrollments, some of the findings of two surveys of freshman students are compared. The two surveys were performed in 1972 and 1977, and although they drew samples differently, their responses' frequency distributions may be compared with some degree of validity. Focus is on the changes in patterns of socioeconomic, personal, academic, and family characteristics of students enrolled at a variety of postsecondary institutions: four-year public colleges, four-year private colleges, two-year public (regional) colleges, two-year private colleges, and vocational-technical institutions. Data are included on expected and actual parental contributions to student expenditures, mean amounts of various types of student aid, reasons for college choice, racial or ethnic group membership distribution, family income, students' fathers' educational level, students' types of high school programs and grades, degree aspirations, marital and residence status, and freshman educational costs. (MSE)

Published
1978

21. Oral history interview with Gordon W. Blackwell, 1990 [text/print transcript]

Author

Link, William A., Blackwell, Gordon W., Link, William A., and Blackwell, Gordon W.

Abstract

Gordon W. Blackwell (1911-2004) served as chancellor of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina from 1957-1960. Blackwell describes the building of the faculty of the department of sociology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and talks about the administrations of University of North Carolina leaders including Frank Porter Graham, Robert House, and William Friday. He describes his impressions of the academic quality and strong faculty at Woman's College, the divisions between 'old-guard' faculty and new faculty and the period of transition of Woman's College moving towards university status and coeducation. He recalls the first integrated dance on campus, the 'Black Stockings' protesting for alcohol on campus, Woman's College student involvement in the Woolworth Sit-ins and his participation on the interracial committee appointed by the mayor.

Published
1990

22. Oral history interview with Gordon W. Blackwell, 1990

Author

Blackwell, Gordon W., Link, William A., Blackwell, Gordon W., and Link, William A.

Abstract

Gordon W. Blackwell (1911-2004) served as chancellor of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina from 1957-1960. Blackwell describes the building of the faculty of the department of sociology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and talks about the administrations of University of North Carolina leaders including Frank Porter Graham, Robert House, and William Friday. He describes his impressions of the academic quality and strong faculty at Woman's College, the divisions between 'old-guard' faculty and new faculty and the period of transition of Woman's College moving towards university status and coeducation. He recalls the first integrated dance on campus, the 'Black Stockings' protesting for alcohol on campus, Woman's College student involvement in the Woolworth Sit-ins and his participation on the interracial committee appointed by the mayor.

Published
1990

23. BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

Author

Blackwell, Gordon W.

Subjects
SOCIAL sciences, PUBLIC health, INTERPERSONAL relations, MEDICAL sciences, HUMAN behavior, MEDICINE
Abstract

It is common knowledge that the behavioral sciences and the several fields of health and the health professions are working more and more closely together. Mutual understanding and respect, together with a spirit of cooperation, provide a climate in which joint endeavors in research, teaching and service programs are possible. Growing out of the activation of the Ford Foundation, the term, "behavioral sciences," has come to denote "all those intellectual activities that contribute more or less directly to the scientific understanding of problems of individual behavior and human relations." The area in which behavioral science may be most ready to offer substantial aid to health and medicine is the community. This is the larger social matrix within which the health and medical professions function. Behavioral scientists who have focused upon the community can now give more than a journalistic understanding of its nature. There is danger in the bandwagon tendency to turn to behavioral science for help on every problem, especially on those matters on which medical science has found that alone it does not have definitive answers. Behavioral science has no magic panacea to offer. Such should not be expected.

Published
1953
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25. Correlates of Stage of Family Development Among Farm Families on Relief.

Author

Blackwell, Gordon W.

Subjects
RURAL families, PUBLIC welfare, HYPOTHESIS, STATISTICAL correlation, QUANTITATIVE research, STATISTICS
Abstract

Copyright of Rural Sociology is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Published
1942

26. Concentration of Rural Relief in Certain Localities in North Carolina.

Author

Blackwell, Gordon W.

Subjects
CHARITIES, RURAL sociology, UNEMPLOYMENT, VILLAGES, SOCIOECONOMICS
Abstract

Results of state-wide survey conducted in April 1935 to obtain accurate data concerning the location, types and problems of the North Carolina localities in which there was a concentration of rural relief have been discussed. The first criterion used in identifying a rural problem-locality in this study has been that it must have on the unemployment relief rolls a percentage of its inhabitants considerably in excess of the rural relief-rate for the state. The available material makes it possible to delimit three types of problem-localities in North Carolina. These have been rural problem village, rural problem community and rural problem-area. Every problem-locality has its own background, development and immediate plight. Study of one county in southeastern North Carolina revealed five definite rural problem-communities which illustrates a special cause of demoralization. Lack of sufficient cultivable land, loss of industry, poor drainage, isolation and intermarriages have been some of the factors which have gone into creating the economic and social problems of these communities.

Published
1936

43. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS AND ETHICS IN RESEARCH PRACTICE.

Author

Abrams, Ray H., Barber, Bernard, Blackwell, Gordon W., Blumer, Herbert, Clark, Carroll D., Elliott, Mabel A., Elmer, Glaister A., Foote, Nelson N., Ford, Robert N., Miller, S. Michael, Zeisel, Hans, and Lee, Alfred McClung

Subjects
MEETINGS, SOCIOLOGICAL research, COMMITTEES, SOCIOLOGICAL associations, SOCIAL sciences
Abstract

This article presents a report of the Committee on Standards and Ethics in Research Practice. Sociology finds itself in a position of continually increasing importance and also, as a part of this, of greater and greater exposure to criticism and even attack. It is because of this, as well as of other considerations, that the Society asked this Committee to continue to function in 1952-1953 with an expanded and more representative membership. These memoranda were circulated to the Committee members, and many members then wrote comments on them. The memoranda are being used in two symposia, one on "Professional Responsibilities" at the 1953 Liege Congress of the International Sociological Association and the other the open meeting of this Committee at the Berkeley convention of the Society. The memoranda, as adapted in discussion, are being made available to the "American Sociological Review". The Committee has visualized its role at tills stage primarily as a stimulator of discussion on standards and ethics in sociological search. The need for enlightened consensus is great but it must be admitted that sociologists far behind the physical and biological scientists and especially behind the psychologists in the serious attention they have given this Hence, the Committee's chief contributions this year are the memoranda it has developed under the guidance of certain of its members.

Published
1953

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