Presents a long-range planning model developed from varied approaches to planning and decision making. The model outlines categories representing planning needs and specifies objectives for each category. Categories are also matched with planning agencies. (RC)

Claims program planning and evaluation are integral techniques in higher education. Recommends student affairs divisions must become effective partners in strategic planning in their institutions. Describes five-year cycle designed to integrate division planning with broader strategic planning at the institutional level. (ABL)

Presents an eight-step planning model that operationally defines a comprehensive delivery systems approach to campuswide leadership training. Lists four goals of the model: to increase efficiency of leadership training through shared resources, to decrease costs, to provide quality control, and to increase impact of programming effort by creating…

Describes major, long-term attempt at Brigham Young University to use campus ecology and student development theories to redefine mission and roles of student affairs. Discusses effort made to provide all student personnel workers the opportunity to study campus ecology and student development theories and to be meaningfully involved in defining…

Draws on current literature and personal experience with campus crises at four private colleges to explain how to develop a workable campus crisis response plan. Lists nine situations that might require a university crisis response, including student or employee death, natural disasters, criminal activities, bomb threats, and utility failures.…

Investigates campus ecology from several innovative perspectives, considering both theory and practice. Conceptualizes current functions of the student affairs administrator playing a key role in higher education and articulates how campus ecology and student development theories complement each other when applied through a systems approach to…

Recognizing that efforts to intentionally design campus environments involve value choices and confront the practitioner with ethical dilemmas, this article raises critical issues about environmental management of college campuses, including issues of freedom and control, privacy, informed consent, competence, political poisoning, values, and…

Presents the Campus Ecology Model which advocates an ecological perspective on commuting. Suggests that campus ecology should infer the ecology of the student, so that the physical/social environment residing outside of the university's property boundaries is of great importance. An ecosystem design process, its application to commuter…

Describes student affairs organizational component within institutions of higher education as historically subordinate to academic affairs. Argues that significant advances have been made in tearing down wall between academic and student affairs missions. Offers following articles, which address academic and student affairs interdependence, as…

Describes vulnerability of student affairs and other academic support areas during economically difficult times. Explores four components of unified systems approach to student affairs financial management that can maintain efficiency and effectiveness: (1) long-range planning; (2) accountability; (3) evaluation; and (4) applied model of systems…

Reviews research on key student academic needs and presents them in a taxonomic model on how to focus on student development in academic advising. Addresses the different needs of each academic class and discusses potential delays to student progress through ineffective advising. Discusses coordination of institutional resources to promote student…

Long-range planning requires change management and enables student personnel administrators to prepare for the future. Student services administrators need to develop plans for receiving campus support for organizational objectives. This article discusses the purpose and process of long-range planning applicable to student services. (RC)