The role of the placement counselor is discussed in relation to psychological education. Placement counselors in the future will find their time divided between their job as counselor and their evolving role as educator. (Author/EK)

A variety of issues, challenges, and criticisms of higher education has emerged in recent years, and some salient themes are briefly introduced in this paper as discussion points for conference attendees. These issues concern a return to excellence, financial demands, a decline in the traditional college age cohort, changing enrollment profiles,…

Much of the thinking and writing about typical student affairs organizations has been grounded in core assumptions consistent with scientific and bureaucratic models of organizing. These questionable assumptions describe how things are supposed to work; however, most divisions of student affairs operate under multiple and sometimes competing…

Reports on student expectations of an undergraduate college education. Indicates that the students were concerned primarily: 1) with developing personally; 2) with increasing decision-making skills and broadening experience; and 3) with exploring disciplines and their relationships to contemporary life. Recommends several ways for student…

Presents examples of health, counseling and psychiatric services, as well as other student personnel services, that are seriously threatened in scores of American colleges and universities. (Author/PG)

The major student personnel administrator is often the first university official to learn that effective educational management involves guiding physical and human resources into dynamic, organizational units which should attain their objectives to the satisfaction of those served and provide a sense of achievement for those rendering such…

The research described was designed to compare the effects of a basic encounter group experience upon undergraduate advisors to freshmen women with a traditional task training group experience and with no group experience. The subjects were randomly placed into the following groups: (1) the basic encounter group in which members were encouraged to…

This presentation discusses information that resulted from a conference on school record keeping. Several of the principles recommended by the conference report are: (1) no information should be collected about students without the informed consent of parents and, in some cases, the student; (2) only the highly stable information collected should…

This document comprises papers presented at a workshop designed to disseminate information concerning the developmental trends in the field of social work to the 450 persons titled Visiting Teacher/School Social Worker (VT/SSW) in Florida. The content of the workshop was developed with a continuing education focus with presentations and…

The Situational Attitude Scale - Commuters (SAS-C) was employed to measure attitudes of student affairs professionals toward commuting students at the University of Maryland, College Park. Two forms of the SAS-C were randomly assigned. Both contained the same 10 situations and bipolar responses, except a term equivalent to…

As institutions rush to seek new consumers and academics respond to the "graying of the campus," what will student personnel professionals do? The light touch of this article may press upon some of the sensitive issues which must be confronted. (Editor)

Functioning as developmental instructors, student personnel workers designed, taught, and evaluated a combined English-psychology course using Kohlberg's work on moral development as a frame of reference. (Author)

This article summarizes the current status of collective bargaining, analyzes the dynamics of the bargaining process, reviews student participation in negotiations, and suggests a role for student personnel administrators on a unionized campus. (Author)

Reviews the life of Thomas Arkle Clark, former Dean of Men at the University of Illinois, whose writings and speeches helped define the Dean of Men role and publicize the office. (Author)

Unless women administrators are supported in their professional development, Student Affairs is not likely to meet the needs of women students. (Author)