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Anderson, Margaret A. – 1975
Throughout continuing higher education there has been a surge of concern for the returning student (housewife), but the returning student (divorcee) is usually left without needed supportive services to nurture her return to the mainstream. The newly-single female is a crisis-strengthened and weakened mutation, unable to return to her former self…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Attendance, Counseling Services, Counselor Role

Carroll, Juollie – Journal of College Student Development, 1988
Examined whether or not participation in a college discovery program was useful in the retention or attrition of educationally underprepared Black freshmen (N=137). Found the role of the counselor and the scope of counseling services during the freshman year to be of primary importance in the retention of educationally underprepared Black college…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Attendance