Describes a program evaluation measure for assessing college student development intervention outcomes. Outlines the management, student-centered, and implementation approaches of the measure and examines the model's application in student development. Uses two case examples in which the model is applied to student services assessment projects to…

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Centers (LGBT CRCs) are new service units in the field of student affairs. Study surveys LGBT CRC directors to learn about their education, salary, operating budgets, and other pertinent issues with which to identify and document a growing new profession. (Contains 14 references and two tables.)…

This article describes the ideal roles for the student development specialist as developed by the Commission on Professional Development of the Council of Student Personnel Associations in Higher Education. (Author)

The impact of collective bargaining on student personnel professionals (SPPs) is examined in terms of the conditions of employment and implications for the profession. Statistics presented show that SPPs have not been involved in collective bargaining to the extent of other university professionals. Less than one-third of the campuses included…

Observes that the profession will always be in trouble; the best that can be done is to work to control the quality of that trouble. Growth has not always been equaled by ability to play the power game on the campus. Student personnel workers will confront all of these problems, solve some, bungle some, and cope with the rest. (Author)

JobWeb, an Internet site, will enable employers, career services, and human resource professionals to utilize Internet resources. While JobWeb is not fully developed, it is operational, attracting 10,000 visitors a day. Goals include provision of timely access to career professionals, students, and alumni and leading edge benchmarking information.…

There is a substantial literature covering efforts by college counseling centers over the past 20 years to identify problems faced by students and their needs for counseling services on campus. A study was conducted which surveyed a representative sample drawn from the general student population of a large university, across the undergraduate,…

The roles of counseling and counselors within the educational system have often been poorly defined. To investigate the current and desired role of student services counselors in a postsecondary institution, the perceptions of students, instructors, administrators and counselors were assessed by a questionnaire listing 79 possible counselor…

In winter 1977, a survey was conducted of the counseling services offered by selected community colleges in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Included were one private and 11 public colleges that had been organized for ten years or less and had student populations ranging from 360 to 14,000. White students predominated…

Three major interpersonal dimensions related to client outcome in counseling are discussed in terms of their effectiveness in dormitory counseling. These are: (1) empathy; (2) warmth; and (3) genuineness. All were considered validly measurable. A pilot training project, which focused only on empathy, is described. The results suggest a significant…

This two-part document contains a description of a peer counseling program affiliated with a college counseling center and a brief outline of their peer counselor training procedures. The program was established to meet the counseling needs of students who tend to be alienated from more traditional sources of help. The responsibilities of the peer…

The bulk of this report is devoted to presenting the findings of a study, which was designed to determine student and faculty desires for counselor and counseling center functioning. The results of questionnaires, one developed for students and one for faculty, indicate that the 3 traditional counseling services (personal, vocational and…

Parents of students, student services personnel, faculty, counselors, and the general student body were sampled to gain an understanding of the perceived role of a college counseling center. Significant differences were found between the various groups. Counselors differed most from the other groups on the Adjustment to Self and Others problem…

The existence of a formal body of literature is one of the defining characteristics of a profession, and publication of scholarly work in professional journals is an important component of professional identity. An examination of student personnel literature found that the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) ranked first in number of…

In an attempt to meet the needs of the Baylor University college community, the staff of the Counseling Center cooperated with the Radio Department in developing a weekly 15-minute radio program which addressed itself to the probelms of students. By means of interviews with campus personnel and questions solicited from listeners, the program…