Assesses the current relevance of a 1972 statement on student personnel work, which saw the counselor as a catalyst and an equal partner to instruction, curriculum, library, and management functions. Sees the student development services role as to furnish direct support services to students and to promote student development. (DMM)

Discusses trends affecting the development of counseling centers into comprehensive, developmentally oriented agencies, and describes the Counseling and Testing Center at the University of Georgia. Summarizes administrative issues and steps taken to facilitate desired changes. (JAC)

This book examines key issues facing new professionals and suggests ways of thinking about the challenges and opportunities offered by a career in student affairs. The purpose of this monograph is to ease the transition from graduate student to full-time professional and to increase the retention of new professionals in the field. Chapters…

In 1997, John N. Gardner, Gretchen Van der Veer and associates published their landmark book, The Senior Year Experience: Facilitating Integration, Reflection, Closure, and Transition. One impact of this book, and the Senior Year Experience program within the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the…

This author deals with college and community college counselors. The counselor/client ratio appears somewhat more favorable than before but the trend appears to be a considerable flattening out in the frequency of staff additions. Some other trends in collegiate counseling discussed here are accountability, minority group members as counselors and…

Peer-designated crisis helpers are compared with non-peer-designated random helpers. Both helper groups were interviewed to discover what was done in crisis intervention. Peer-designated helpers intervene in more crises of a potentially serious nature and are more likely to take some direct action. (Author)

Advocating a psychoecological perspective within a student development model, the authors state that a counselor must intimately know the system in which he deals, must observe and gather data, must formulate and test hypotheses and must help develop an action plan. (LA)

The second of a two-part series on how the University of Florida developed a plan for an integrated and coordinated system of career education, counseling, and academic advising. (Author)

A discussion of two trends in education and their implications for student personnel workers. These forces are first, financial pressures with the closely related concept of accountability and secondly, educational egalitarianism and the belief that through education we can remove social and economic inequalities. Speech presented at the…

The purpose of this article is to examine some roles that could be played by a third party in the mediation of campus disputes. Discussed are conditions for effective mediation, mediation procedures, intervention strategies, and the outside mediator. (Author/CJ)

The survey concludes that college admissions are scarcely affected by the initiation of coeducational housing, that alumni reaction has been sparse and when negative not felt to be permanently damaging; and that alumni giving has not seemed to suffer as a direct result of the establishment of coeducational dormitories. (Author)

The students' self perception, development, esteem, and alignment with career roles can benefit from sensitive orchestration with a qualified counselor. (Author)

The authors conclude that if student personnel specialists are to meet the challenges of the next decade, student personnel educators must begin to offer graduate programs that will enable the practitioner to break away from his service image and become a full partner in the educational enterprise. (Author)

This paper examines the question of professionalism as it pertains to college student personnel administrators. The criterion used for assessing professionalism includes the functions performed, the commonalities of experiences shared, the training of new members and the emphasis on continued learning or professional growth. (Author/CG)

This model is an attempt to relate Marshall McLuhan's approach to media to the field of student personnel work. (Author)