What is known about college students' search for purpose more than ever before due to the scholarly attention devoted to purpose development over the past two decades. This growing research on purpose increasingly makes it clear, as Tim Clydesdale ( 2015 ) writes, that when colleges "launch sustained conversations with students about…

The deepening financial crisis that is now affecting markets and people around the globe gives new context to what the nation is facing. Americans cannot think of business as usual in any sector of public or private life, including higher education. President-elect Barack Obama will have very little financial latitude and enormous immediate…

A generation ago the model for an expanded role for nurses included comprehensive health assessment through appropriate and systematic data collection. Today the scope of nursing practice has made aspects of that model obsolete and it is time to redefine that role to reflect nursing education and practice in the 1980s. (JOW)

Likens the role of a public relations practitioner to that of a lawyer, as an advocate in an adversarial society. Argues that this role justifies the distribution of "selective truth," relieves the public person from the obligation to tell "objective truth," allows for ethical persuasion, but does not delineate the parameters of ethical behavior.…

Excerpts from "The President's Spouse: Volunteer or Volunteered" are presented. The book includes essays by women married to higher education leaders and covers a variety of topics: entertaining, fund-raising, the delicate relationship with the board, family considerations, self-identity, and the question of remuneration. (MLW)

Questions the current role of student affairs in higher education. Explores higher education and the evolution of student affairs, then examines the dynamics and context for the professional development of student personnel services. Draws on the historical relevance of the student affairs points of view and offers a new vision and new challenge…

This reprinted 1970 article examines the role of the university research administrator and finds that the role involves paradoxes between controller and entrepreneur, master and slave, censor and publicist, and traditionalist and innovator. (DB)

Provides overview of the vital role a sound admission program plays in helping an institution fulfill its mission. Notes that, in the future, admission directors will need to implement the concept of strategic planning, and that strategic decision making will be needed in the future student recruitment environment. (NB)

A national survey of the individuals who serve as college governing board secretaries revealed highly varied institutional characteristics, job responsibilities, and overall roles in the organization. (MSE)

Describes the educational technologist's work in Open University course production in terms of the work's context and the potential roles and tasks that may be assumed, and concludes that the educational technologist must continually construct and reconstruct his/her own role according to a number of sets of criteria. (Author/CMV)

Presents summary of views by counselor educators and Association for Specialists in Group Work members responding to "Duality: The Issues That Won't Go Away" at 1991 American Association for Counseling and Development Annual Convention. Notes that duality refers to multiple roles counselor educators may hold while teaching courses with…

Presents a perspective on the relationship between the values and roles of scholarship and those of student affairs administration. Discusses methods for both connecting the systems and weakening the stereotypes of scholarship and student affairs. (Contains 56 references.) (GCP)

Presents a response to "A Perspective on the Values of Student Affairs and Scholarship" (this issue) which focuses on relating the values of scholarship and the values of the student affairs profession. Argues that there is not necessarily a gap between scholarship and practice in student affairs. (GCP)

Reviews major documents that have guided the student affairs profession, briefly noting the historical context and purpose of each and summarizing their messages. Identifies the underlying themes that have guided the profession throughout its history, placing emphasis on the historical origins of current thinking about the roles and functions of…

Presents a response to Evans et al.'s "Guiding Principles: A Review and Analysis of Student Affairs Philosophical Statements" (this issue). Disagrees with the assertion that the core values and themes of the student affairs profession have generally remained consistent over the last century. (GCP)