The student experience involves displacement of the self into an epistemological framework, beginning a trajectory that can either rise with increased confidence, or fall with diminished interest. The learner becomes a new, authentic self through the process of becoming a student. (SK)

Discusses the role of campus counseling services, developmental needs of college students, the role of science teachers, and the benefits of collaboration between counselors and science teachers. (MM)

Tribal colleges play a powerful role in the personal development as well as the academic development of American Indian students. By providing access, exposure to native culture, personal support, preparation for further education, and a sense of empowerment, tribal colleges are influential in advancing self-awareness, interpersonal sensitivity,…

This study examines the ways in which a support and retention scholarship program (College Assistance Migrant Program--CAMP) mediated the first-year college experience of three situationally marginalized, female students of Mexican descent. Findings suggest that educators at all levels of schooling should create opportunities for this population…

This volume contains 13 essays by distinguished scholars and public figures on texts that influenced them to act wisely and justly in their personal and professional lives. These essays were originally given at two Symposia on Text and Teaching at Georgetown University. The participants and their subjects are as follows: (1) Edmund D. Pellegrino…

The shape of all future and social structures may be determined largely by the emergence of a new kind of individual. (Editor)

Explains the need for and the process of staff development for office workers as implemented at Tuskegee Institute. (Editor)

In these workshop materials, Perry's scheme of intellectual and ethical development is graphically portrayed. This is followed by: (1) an epistemological overview of positions two to five of the Perry scheme (what to learn, how to learn, how to think, and how to judge in context); (2) an overview of Perry scheme instrumentation; (3) Perry rating…

Attention within counseling psychology has broadened in the last decade to include the larger community within which an individual exists. Measures of the eight elements of community identification by Roberts (1980) were administered to students on two residence hall floors. The group on one floor served as an experimental group and explored in…

Neither the proponent nor the critics of athletics can offer substantial evidence to prove that athletics per se are either beneficial or harmful. Presents a summary of the research to date. (Editors)

Professors involved in innovative teaching can be the nucleus of a faculty development program, reinforced by their counterparts at neighboring institutions. (Editor)

An experimental college program has been developed to provide a different, less structured program for the first two undergraduate years for 150 students at the University of California. Program content is focused on the study of four periods of crisis and change in western civilization. Students and faculty will read from primary sources, holding…

A newly appointed woman dean discusses the value of a management development program involving a process of self-analysis and self-determination of leadership style and effectiveness (the University of Illinois "Executive Leadership Seminar"). (JT)

The author describes a reading program based on James Dinnan's theory of how people learn. This unique program teaches both highly inefficient readers and those with milder developmental needs to deal effectively with practical and literary prose and with poetry. (Author)

Despite the fact that fewer students today are earning liberal arts degrees, Clairbourne E. Griffin of the University of Akron sees a bright future for the liberal arts, because of the value to the individual of a liberal education. (Author/SJL)