Institutional Advancement (IA) professionals employed in higher education institutions play a critical role in building relationships with external constituents that lead to philanthropic support for strategic priorities. While IA activities have been part of the fabric of higher education since the 18th century, IA has only been a recognized…

Camp programs hire counselors to fulfill multiple responsibilities and to role model positive behaviors for campers. Social-emotional learning (SEL) is a skill set that develops over time and through engagement with an array of individuals and opportunities that support social and emotional health across the lifespan. The social design of an…

Interview with Miss Marcia Saunders, principal of Regina High School for girls in Hyattsville, Md., and Associate Member of NCEA's regional board for secondary education (Editor/CB)

The article examined Chicanas' roles as they have appeared in the literature and suggested some directions for the sociological reconstruction of women's roles in Chicano social organization. (Author/NQ)

Many mature women reach a decision-making point where a desire to change the direction of their lives is quite evident, but how to implement that change is unclear. Presented is a five part guidance model which provides steps useful in working with the mature woman in her mid-life role change. (Author)

Compared husband's role in single- and dual-earner families on perceptions of the ideal role of husband by both spouses, decision-making roles, and division of domestic labor. Except in decision-making, the wife's employment made little difference to either perception or performance of the husband's role. (Author/KS).

Describes a course designed to help solve the confusion and bewilderment about their role and future in society with which many students must deal. (Author/RK)

Paper presented at the Tenth International Seminar on Family Research of the International Committee on Family Research, Tehran, Iran, March 5-13, 1968.

This study explored the perception of career/family conflict in adolescent girls to determine how that conflict affects their career-related decisions; how this effect changes over time; and the effect of parental attitudes and marital relationships on this process. Research and results are described. (JL)

Household Labor-saving devices and contraception innovations have given women new freedom to choose to have a career, marriage, children or a combination of these. Counseling personnel must assume a futuristic orientation in their therapeutic strategies, for women will continue to seek fulfillment from an increasing variety of individual…

Uses data from survey of 880 Kentucky farm women to present theoretical framework integrating microsocial, household economy, and farm structural perspectives to explain gender allocation of farm-specific tasks and decision making. Finds self-identity validated by participation in farm tasks/decision making, but, overall, women indicate low levels…

A study explored the relationship between romantic love and decision making power in college students' dating relationships. W. Waller's theory that the person who is "least in love" gains power over the person who is relatively "more in love" was tested in terms of C. Safilios-Rothchild's typology of "Orchestration…

During the heightened self-consciousness of adolescence, reevaluation and modifications in self-perceptions and sex-role orientations generally take place. Therefore, a developmental perspective is needed to investigate the adoption of sex-typed, cross sex-typed, or non sex-typed attitudes and behaviors. Young women (N=226) responded to a…

To determine what interviewers perceived to be important factors in the interviewing process and whether the sex of the interviewer or type of organization he or she worked for influenced their perceptions of such factors, a questionnaire was administered to 42 personnel managers from randomly selected places of business and government offices.…

The purpose of this study was to distinguish between cultural values and expectations regarding family structure and actual family structure as reflected in interviews concerning family decision making and control of resources in rural Kikuyu where the economy is such that 67 percent of the males must work in Nairobi (Kenya), visiting their homes…