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Show University alumni study own role in society ulty-student relationships, learning styles, and administration attitudes atti-tudes toward student discipline. Dr. Pace expects the results of the study to "correct some of the myths surrounding education." He also hopes the study will help government gov-ernment officials, school administrators adminis-trators and the public make better decisions concerning future policies poli-cies for higher education. ates, the study will compare the various institutions of higher learning learn-ing to determine the different ways in which they might have influenced their students. According to Dr. Pace, a major effort will also be made to determine deter-mine the relationship between the academic standing of an institution and its effect on students. "Colleges and universities," he said, "which send relatively few of their graduates on to graduate or professional school, may nevertheless never-theless be highly effective in such respects as the amount of change produced in their students or the extent to which their graduates participate in community service. During the course of the study, the Center is also collecting information infor-mation about the various institutions, institu-tions, such as indications of campus cam-pus morale, quality teaching, fac- University Alumni are one of 75 coDeges and university alumni groups participating in a study to explore the role of colleges alumni in today's society. UCLA's Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) is trying to answer one of education's most pressing questions: How relevant has higher education been to the lives of its graduates? The center's study, directed by Dr. C. Robert Pace, will examine the activities, attitudes and interests inter-ests of college graduates in an effort to assess the lasting influences influ-ences of higher education. Some 20,000 alumni of the 75 diverse colleges and universities ranging from Colby College, in Maine, to the California Institute of Technology are being included. The study is the most extensive of its kind ever made, the first national shurvey of college alumni in the last 20 years. Now well underway, it is expected to be completed in 1970. Participating alumni are being queried about their organizational memberships, their interests in literature lit-erature and the fine arts, then-knowledge then-knowledge of social and political trends, and their attitudes toward these trends. In addition to analyzing gradu- |