This paper provoked student personnel administrators into thinking of new ways for viewing conflict. Change was approached as a social as well as a political phenomenon. The author deals with conflicts that fall into one or a combination of the following: (1) conflict over purpose, (2) conflict over role, (3) conflict over authority. (Author/LA)

This discussion of the preparation and development of student personnel workers for the 80's proposes a model for implementation through which student personnel workers would contribute to the curricular environment and as a group have impact on the university community. (JC)

The present study was an attempt to investigate possible ways that the institution, and particularly the student personnel and counseling staffs, could provide some help to students who experience serious problems in dealing with their grief reactions. (Author)

A summary of the experiences of a counselor educator while introducing psychological education into a counselor education curriculum and an assessment of that curriculum. (JC)

The purpose of this study was to examine the career patterns of student personnel administrators. A questionnaire and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator were used to obtain data from 1,320 student personnel administrators. (Author)

The present investigation reveals the relative importance attributed to specific requirements for admission by 189 college admissions officers. (Author)

A more ambitious counseling program, founded on social and economic realities, is seen as a possible answer to discontent, turnover, and nonproductive jobs. (Author)

The author concludes that in spite of existing social obstacles, placement officials may still achieve commendable success working with blacks if they perceive placement center objectives and activities as vital elements in the democratic process especially designed to accelerated the assimilation of blacks into the economic fabric of the nation.…

College business managers are resented because they: 1) represent state bureaucracy; 2) make academic decisions by denying funds; and 3) steer the university toward more bureaucratic and less academic stance. (KH)

Interviews with trustees, college presidents, deans, faculty, students, security and civil law enforcement officers concerning their expectations of the chief student personnel administrator indicate that, in the final analysis, it is how administrators see themselves that determine how they appear to others. (CJ)

The problems that foreign students face in job-hunting are many and complex. (Editor/HS)

The information presented details the number of minority professional staff employed in student affairs at NASPA member institutions, their level of employment, the number employed primarily with minority programs, and the number of such persons affiliated with NASPA. (Author)

This study describes significant job viewpoints and interpersonal attitudes of candidates for residence counseling positions. Selection and training of these staff members should place emphasis on both professional attitudes and personal and social development. (Author)

The importance of the present study is the demonstration that both accurate empathy and warmth responses can be increased significantly after only six hours of training. This means that the responses can be raised rapidly and that the training task becomes one of reinforcing, strengthening, integrating, and generalizing these responses. (Author)