The first "Student Personnel Point of View" (1937) still stands as the premiere statement of excellence for the student personnel profession. Several propositions are requisites to achieving the goal of development in students. Students, professional staff, and institutions must all achieve their goals. The environment must be developmental and inquiry into the nature of students, environment, and student-environment interaction must be encouraged. Student involvement should be encouraged and interaction among participants must be meaningful. Finally, a balance between education for life and education for work must be achieved. Key issues in excellent practice center around professional skills, leadership, adaptation of practice to setting, aligning college student affairs with liberal arts, teaching, distinguishing between service and developmental goals, sex discrimination in the field, and training and consultation strategies. To help achieve excellence, each professional must assume responsibility for his/her knowledge and conduct, be open to change in the application of skills and knowledge, adopt a spirit of experimentation, and evaluate programs against standards of excellence. Professionals are encouraged to form a vision, translate it into goals, articulate the goals, marshall resources, generate support, advocate goals, demonstrate how implementation of ideas will solve problems and respond to felt needs, and employ multiple strategies. (NB)