Undocumented students are a population defined by limitations. Their lack of legal residency and any supporting paperwork (e.g., Social Security number, government issued identification) renders them essentially invisible to the American and state governments. They cannot legally work. In many states, they cannot legally drive. After the age of…

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…

The purpose of this exploratory study was to analyze the perceptions (through survey data) of Disability Support Services (DSS) personnel regarding the transition process for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from secondary to postsecondary institutions. Participants from 408 postsecondary institutions completed the survey with 60.4%…

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…

The purpose of this article is to discuss several new areas of opportunity for student personnel workers which are becoming available as a result of new developments in the human relations technology of education. (Author)

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)

An application of the principles of effective faculty advising is presented in this paper. The major objective in the presentation of the model is to provide for professional intercourse about the principles and objectives of faculty advising as it now exists and as it could be developed. (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)

Objective and Participants: The authors examined the prevalence of mental health needs in international graduate students, their knowledge of mental health services, and their use of on-campus and off-campus counseling services. Methods: All registered graduate students in the Spring 2004 semester received an e-mail invitation to participate in a…

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)

The present study was an attempt to investigate possible ways that the institution, and particularly the student personnel and counseling staffs, could provide some help to students who experience serious problems in dealing with their grief reactions. (Author)