Proposes: (1) self-help materials and activities, (2) noncredit courses to deliver counseling services, and (3) collaboration among selected professionals to deal with the problem of "counseling inequity" with regard to part-time and evening students. (AYC)

Reports on a survey of community college chief student personnel officers, which focused on the comprehensiveness of student service program offerings and the relative contribution of the program to designated purposes. Reveals that purposes related to student development were subordinate to those related to delivery of services. (DMM)

Stresses the importance of academic advising, at both institutional and student levels, and reviews literature on the relative merits of student advisement systems and professional counselor systems. Argues that the best advising system is one that fits the local college constituency. (DMM)

Argues that community college counseling roles and functions are sufficiently different to merit different graduate preparation and skills. Describes several major thrusts: the educational generalist, the counselor/service specialist, the educational programer, and the developmentalist. (AYC)

A literature search and review was conducted by the Two-Year College Student Development Research Committee of the American College Personnel Association to investigate the overall character of typical research on two-year college student development concerns. The student development research conducted at the two-year college level contrasted…

Explores the intended outcomes of marketing (e.g., attracting new students who differ from the traditional ones and who require different programs and services) and discusses the resultant problems for student development programs. Presents strategies for preventing these problems, founded on careful, knowledge-based planning of marketing and…

Drawing from a literature review, interviews, and a survey of practitioners' perceptions, this article examines changing conditions within community colleges and their likely effects on student development programs and services. Advances a new model for student development educators based on principles of collaborative goal setting. (DMM)

Proposes a culture-based, adaptive, decision-making model that calls for the explicit involvement of all members of the community college, especially student affairs personnel, to appropriately address the certainty of change. Examines institutional culture, decision making, quality-focused management, participatory strategies, and the…

Analyzes the major factors in the failure of student retention programs in community colleges by using an eight-phase hypothetical retention model which is compared with 18 principles of planned change. Concludes with generalizations and explanations for retention program weaknesses. (WL)

Various perspectives on the current state and future of community college counseling are examined in this paper. First, four commonly practiced approaches to counseling are described: (1) the integrated perspective, which views counseling as a form of teaching which is an integral part of educational programs of the community college; (2) the…

Assesses the perceptions of chief student services officers from 172 public two-year colleges regarding student services provided in 1994. Indicates that both large and small colleges reported the quality of their services as average to slightly above average, an improvement over perceptions reported in the 1965 Carnegie Foundation study. Contains…

Student affairs professionals in community colleges are facing several major issues in need of resolution including: the insufficient use of existing knowledge about adolescent and adult development and organization development in program design and execution; and the insufficient use of knowledge of program evaluation for understanding the…

Research on student development has shown positive effects of institutional smallness on most student outcome variables. However, no clear relationship of ruralness to these outcome measures has been shown. The limited literature on small/rural community colleges includes two areas relevant to student development: college characteristics, which…

Reports on a study of the effects of seven preenrollment characteristics (i.e., ability, socioeconomic status, race, sex, high school program, high school grades, and educational aspirations) and three student-institutional characteristics (i.e., entry status, full/part-time status, and curriculum type) on student retention in college. Looks at…