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Download full textClowes, Darrel; Levin, Bernard – 1978
"Cooling out" was identified in 1960 as a specific function of the community college in redirecting students who experienced academic failure. The "soft" cooling out process, which re-directs students into less demanding curricula or out of the college through counseling and advising rather than academic discipline, will increasingly become a…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Education, Academic Failure, College Bound Students
Beyerl, Merrill C.; And Others – 1974
This report presents the findings and recommendations of a review of the student personnel services program at Triton College (Illinois), conducted by a team from the Consulting Service of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. The report briefly describes the college and its administration and suggests a reorganization of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Admission, Counseling Services, Counselors
Santa Rita, Emilio – 1995
Retention strategies at New York's Bronx Community College (BCC) aim to keep students enrolled long enough to realize their educational or occupational goals. Actual practices, however, can be categorized into distinct patterns which can provide a basis for planning the future mission of counseling. Some strategies are designed to sort the student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Counseling Services
Deavers, Ken; Halpin, Gerald – 1987
A study was conducted to determine the differences in the perceptions of administrators, student development practitioners, faculty, and students with respect to the effectiveness of selected student services in two-year colleges in Alabama. A survey instrument, requesting respondents to express their agreement or disagreement with 57 statements…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Counseling Services, Extracurricular Activities
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Direct linkAmada, Gerald – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2004
This commentary explores the role, psychological significance, and potential value of a restraining order that is used to extricate students from highly enmeshed and destructive relationships. The commentary places strong emphasis upon the need to evaluate an unmanageable student's behavior in the context of the college's code of student conduct…
Descriptors: College Administration, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Counseling Services
Gelso, Charles J.; And Others – 1976
The appropriateness of four counseling center models (traditional, consultation, vocational guidance, psychotherapy) and 15 specific counseling center functions for universities with enrollments of 10,000 plus were evaluated by samples of counselors, student personnel administrators, resident assistants, faculty, students, and university…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Career Guidance, College Faculty
Selgas, James W. – 1977
A two-part survey was administered to students, faculty, student services staff, and administrators of Harrisburg Area Community College in order to assess the validity of student services. Part A of the survey asked the respondents to rate the importance, quality of service, and extent of use of five areas of student service: admissions,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Counseling Services, Counselor Role
Tullar, V. Philip – 1981
Following introductory material noting demands for accountability within student services programs, this paper describes an evaluation system that involves administrators, faculty, student affairs practitioners, and students in an assessment of the college's overall student services effort. The paper first discusses the 60-item opinionnaire used…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, College Housing, Community Colleges
Ward, Robin M.; Webb, Richard E. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2004
In this article, the authors respond to Dr. Amada's comment on their paper. They feel that several of his points, though related to their topic, go beyond the scope of their paper, for example, reflecting on the potential for legal involvement when the intensity of the obsessive relationship warrants urgent intervention. In the latter case the…
Descriptors: Intervention, College Administration, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
Searls, J. Matt, Comp. – PEPNet-Northeast, 2001
A recent "Time" magazine article noted that college counseling centers are experiencing an increasing number of students seeking services for a range of mental health and developmental needs. For many students, the college experience can be stressful, which may contribute to poor eating habits, irregular sleeping patterns, or experimentation with…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Psychological Needs, Sign Language, Partial Hearing
MacMinn, Paul; Miller, Carroll H.; Wellman, Frank E. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
Each year numerous research studies are conducted on problems in or related to school and college personnel services. Since many of these studies go unpublished, the results are all but lost to a large segment of people concerned with the improvement and operation of the services. The U.S. Office of Education was requested by the National…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Research, Pupil Personnel Services, Elementary Secondary Education
Berger, Marc I.; And Others – 1969
These six papers concern general educational problems and problems specific to two year colleges. In the first, Dr. Marc Berger stated unequivocally that Education, as traditionally viewed, is mythology. Its potential for bringing about change in the social order is non-existent; the task is beyond its scope. Dr. William Birenbaum, in the second…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Bound Students, College Choice, College Curriculum
Thomas, Henry B.; Kaplan, E. Joseph – 1980
A national survey was conducted of randomly selected chief student personnel officers as listed in the 1979 "Education Directory of Colleges and Universities." The survey addressed specific institutional demographics, policy-making authority, reporting structure, and areas of responsibility of the administrators. Over 93 percent of the respondents…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Admissions Counseling
