Through examining nine Accessibility Advisors' (AAs) stories of becoming professionals in their field, this study provides an important entry point into understanding the individuals whose work is central to supporting students with disabilities within Canadian research-intensive post-secondary institutions. AAs function as Third Space…

Because the work of scholars and student affairs practitioners is primarily confined within colonial institutions of higher education, their ethics of research and practice are also primarily bound by the same colonial perspective. Colonial practices perpetuate white dominance and therefore harm students, specifically those from marginalized…

The author offers his perspectives about the experiences that are associated with being a college or university counseling center director.

Though history has long been a part of graduate preparation in higher education administration, new student affairs professionals often struggle to see its relevance to their work. We present a conceptual framework that links organizational ecology, institutional culture and climate, and student development through a historical lens. We then…

This qualitative investigation examines the use of behavioral agreements by Senior Student Affairs Officers and Counseling Center Directors to manage student mental health concerns and minimize behavior that poses threats to campus communities. Six pairs of Senior Student Affairs Officers and Counseling Center Directors at the same institution…

Introduces Prescriptive Evaluation Plans, method of large-scale evaluation that gives student affairs practitioners active but manageable role in evaluation process. Describes approach as especially useful for student affairs departments with number of services managed as semiautonomous units, such as student union; resident life department; or…

College and university campuses present special obstacles to positive system change. This article emphasizes viewing the university counseling center and other student services agencies as human systems which, like any other human systems, are organismic in nature, and as such are able to develop and evolve over time. (Author)

The papers presented here are reactions to Robert D. Brown's presentation on Student Development in Tomorrows Higher Education with a response from Brown to the reactions. Presented at the ACPA Convention, Chicago, March, 1972. (JC)

This is a series of short biographical essays on LeBaron Russell Briggs (Harvard), Marion Talbot (University of Chicago), Thomas Arkle Clark (University of Illinois), and Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry. These were pioneers in student personnel work at the turn of the century. (BEF)

Presents examples of health, counseling and psychiatric services, as well as other student personnel services, that are seriously threatened in scores of American colleges and universities. (Author/PG)

This paper is a guide to the location, decor and record keeping of a college counseling service. It delineates the issues and concerns that will dictate the choice of each of these aspects of the counseling service. The choice of location can be determined only after considering the issues of privacy, accessibility and confidentiality. Thus, for…

Assessed academic advisers', resident assistants', and student personnel workers' perceptions of counseling referral process. Referral Process Inventory was used to assess four areas related to referral process. Results indicated different perceptions of referral between groups and need for greater consultation and information about referral…

Significant differences in staffing patterns and services of counseling centers related to size of staff, type of institution, and accreditation status of the center are reported. Sex and ethnicity, licensing and academic characteristics of counseling center professionals; numbers of interns, practicum students, and peer counselors; and center…

A discussion of two trends in education and their implications for student personnel workers. These forces are first, financial pressures with the closely related concept of accountability and secondly, educational egalitarianism and the belief that through education we can remove social and economic inequalities. Speech presented at the…