Predicts that student services will be increasingly influenced by computer technology. Suggests this resource be managed effectively to minimize potential problems and prevent a mechanistic and impersonal environment. Urges student personnel workers to assume active responsibility for planning, evaluating, and operating computer resources. (JAC)

Analyzes a successful student affairs organization as one which implements innovative student development techniques and programs; actively encourages increases in organizational complexity and job satisfaction; and seeks to moderate its degree of centralization, formalization, and stratification. Urges production and efficiency be emphasized.…

Although financial aid staff feel they are treated as second-class citizens, they are seen as their own worst enemy. Some recommendations to improve the profession include: avoid use of jargon, reduce use of forms, promote the consolidation of loan activities, establish goals and objectives, and improve organizational development. (MLW)

This article is a concise description of how human development approaches and human management techniques can be combined in college student personnel administration. (Author)

Assesses the use of language prohibiting hate crimes in campus conduct codes and determines whether such language unlawfully regulates speech, or behavior, or both. Examined senior student affairs officers' familiarity with two pertinent court decisions, along with the perceived applicability and use of the decisions in revising conduct codes.…

Chief student affairs officers can employ specific strategies that will help them position themselves to respond to political and leadership opportunities and deal constructively with their political environments. This article explicitly identifies ideas and perspectives that will stimulate practitioners to think differently about their…

The influx of women into student affairs administration raises questions about how gender is linked to organizational leadership. Case studies are presented of two student affairs midlevel leaders at opposite ends of a gender-related continuum. Student affairs leaders are challenged to recognize personal and cultural influences that promote or…

Reviews prior approaches to instilling values so as to discuss the importance of teaching values now. Suggests how student affairs preparation program curricula can help practitioners learn how to teach values. Identifies five recent changes in campus values and uses examples to show how student affairs practitioners use core values. (RJM)

Argues that such student services as counseling, financial aid, and student health be made available to all students at times and days necessary to accommodate full- and part-time, credit and non-credit students. Urges lifelong learning and student services professionals to exert leadership in developing appropriate student services. (DMM)

Describes a study of the perceptions of developmental educators and counselors regarding current level of knowledge and procedures for working with students with learning disabilities in community colleges. Reports differences in training, with 31% of the educators and only 6% of the counselors having taken special education courses. Discusses…

The basic tenet--learn by doing--of Schering-Plough's 30-year-old management recruiting and training program remains unchanged. The recruiting philosophy remains: first search within the company then seek out a newcomer who is a quick study. Examines recruitment for sales and management focusing on a program for the latter. (JBJ)

Presents the Accommodations Planning Team (APT) seminar, a half-day job placement program for graduating students with disabilities. The seminar approaches placement via skills training and resource utilization. The group format enables teams to learn from one another. Structured activities introduce students to important career preparation…

Student affairs practitioners today must often face difficulties related to the promotion of multiculturalism while maintaining individual rights and freedoms with a college population. Addresses concerns faced by student affairs practitioners: law and regulations and promoting diversity. Discusses legislative directives, current laws, and recent…

Careers guidance is undergoing rapid and radical changes. However, the Careers Service is still operating to nationally agreed core training objectives which determine both initial training and supervisor training. Outlines recent changes influencing guidance practice and training, and identifies the predominant mode of current supervision within…

Discusses findings of a study investigating careers officers' use of theoretical models in careers guidance interviews. Evidence suggests theory is used to support, rather than determine, the development of skills in initial training. Recently trained careers officers were most likely to be familiar with theory. Overall, the findings cast doubt on…