Profiles an academic model which permits all student affairs personnel to actively facilitate student development on campus. Describes three variations of the model, from three universities, which incorporate a series of courses focusing on identified student needs. Describes other related student development activities. (RC)

Job analysis, job descriptions, and performance appraisal can benefit student services administration in many ways. Involving staff members in the development and implementation of these techniques can increase commitment to and understanding of the overall objectives of the office, as well as communication and cooperation among colleagues.…

Provides an understanding of what MIS (Management Information Systems) is and how it can assist the student services administrator in planning and decision making. (Author)

Program budgeting systems should be viewed as a comprehensive approach to decision making. They are tools intended to guide the manager through all the essential steps in the planning and resource allocation processes. (Author)

Examines four distinct but interrelated stages that first-year graduate students must resolve, and discusses needed research for the four-year level paradigm and its implications. Reminds college personnel of the importance of facilitating successful adjustment to graduate study. (ABL)

Explores limits of quantitative research methods and introduces qualitative approach, focus groups, as alternative information-collection tool for student personnel administrators. Presents two research projects where focus groups were used. Maintains that focus group approach has several advantages, including cost effectiveness, emphasis on…

This document looks at the college student who is an adult child from a dysfunctional family, applying Chickering's seven vectors of college-age student development to that student's experiences at college. Each of Chickering's seven vectors (developing competence, managing emotions, developing autonomy, establishing identity, freeing…

Discusses problems related to staff selection in student affairs, including (1) lack of clarity about hiring authority; (2) inappropriate requirements; (3) lack of affirmative action; (4) impersonal procedures; (5) inadequate reference checks; (6) lack of clear evaluation criteria; (7) inadequate interview preparation; and (8) failure to provide…

The ecosystem approach to environmental assessment in residence halls has been applied twice at Arizona State University and once at Indiana University. The process by which the model was applied at those two universities is discussed in this article. (Author)

Presents a model for generating knowledge that will allow the student personnel workers to understand and to intervene in environments they consider important. Examples of created knowledge are presented. (Author)

Notes that student services professionals manage a number of mental health crises as part of their job responsibilities. Examines some issues that arise from assisting foreign college students experiencing such crises, with special focus on psychiatric committal, withdrawal from school, and return to the home country. (Author)

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…

Raises questions about and poses creative solutions for curriculum options fostering student development. Describes work by student affairs professionals attempting to implement developmental theory in credit courses. Examines skill development courses, career development courses, and courses which apply human development theory. Discusses issues…

Student affairs professionals are urged to expand their roles in response to the changing enrollment patterns, focusing on recruitment, enrollment and retention, and developing programs which attract new markets to the community college. Their potential assistance to faculty and the academic program is described. Certain model programs are…

Presents examples of how an understanding of Perry's theory of intellectual development can increase the faculty member's or student personnel worker's understanding of students and improve communication. The theory is translated into developmental clues based on student comments, which can be used for practitioner training. (JAC)