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…

Asserts that the development of the whole person can be accomplished by focusing on ecological, wellness, and developmental approaches in student life programming. Provides theoretical formulation of how campus ecology, student development, and wellness theories interface with one other. (Author/NB)

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…

Discusses the trend toward conservative educational goals of college students in the 1980's. Explores some of the history and reasons behind this shift in goals and values, and discusses the implications for student affairs leaders in the '80's. (BH)

Emphasizes the responsibility for residence hall staff to understand the grief process. An adaptation of Kubler-Ross's stages of death has produced helpful techniques for successfully accepting the death. Through understanding these principles, staff can become aware of the grief process and can assist residents. (JAC)

Collective bargaining in higher education will neither solve all the problems that lead to faculty unionization nor destroy the collegiate institution. Students often view faculty unions as detrimental to their interests and respond by forming their own organizations if the contract directly affects their lives. For the student personnel…

This paper provoked student personnel administrators into thinking of new ways for viewing conflict. Change was approached as a social as well as a political phenomenon. The author deals with conflicts that fall into one or a combination of the following: (1) conflict over purpose, (2) conflict over role, (3) conflict over authority. (Author/LA)

The purpose of this study was to examine the career patterns of student personnel administrators. A questionnaire and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator were used to obtain data from 1,320 student personnel administrators. (Author)

Interviews with trustees, college presidents, deans, faculty, students, security and civil law enforcement officers concerning their expectations of the chief student personnel administrator indicate that, in the final analysis, it is how administrators see themselves that determine how they appear to others. (CJ)

The information presented details the number of minority professional staff employed in student affairs at NASPA member institutions, their level of employment, the number employed primarily with minority programs, and the number of such persons affiliated with NASPA. (Author)

To indicate how research is essential for the dean, four areas are discussed: (1) the role of the dean; (2) the nature of research for the dean; (3) implications of various research for the dean; and (4) some suggestions for action. (Author)

Reviews the status of student affairs programs in light of recent budget cuts. Presents an accountability model for student affairs based on four elements: (1) identification of goals; (2) development of alternative strategies; (3) periodic evaluation of personnel and program performance; and (4) inclusion of nonpractitioners in decision making.…

Explores the relationship between the dynamics of leadership teams in student affairs divisions of universities and colleges and campus leaders' perceptions of the effectiveness of the student affairs division as a whole. Results suggest that leadership teams in which members perceived higher levels of trust, structure, and work also perceived…

Presents and assesses a unique cocurricular training program for student personnel graduate students preparing to enter into higher education administration. The FACTS (Future Administrators Cultural Training Seminars) program was designed to supplement the students' classroom learning with practical insights into the nuances of working with…