This study examines the types of programs provided by higher education institutions for student-athletes and assesses how well particular services contribute to students' academic and personal success. A survey instrument designed to measure perceptions and opinions about the variety and development of academic support services for…

This program corrects the deficiencies of existing extension, television, and correspondence-oriented prison education by operating with student personnel workers and faculty inside the prison on a full-time basis. The following program components prove essential: the goal is rehabilitation; the methods are post-secondary education and counseling…

Pilot study compares characteristics of forty students who committed misdemeanors with a control group, in hopes that understanding them better will lead to more effective counseling practices. Chi-square analysis tables included. Study basis of paper presented at APGA, Detroit, 1968. (CJ)

Describes organization and implementation of "Help Anonymous, a telephone counseling service for students in distress. Volunteers trained and supervised by professional personnel, act as staff. Three services have thus far evolved -- listening, information, and referral. (Author)

To survive student personnel work must identify with the academic life of the university. Research toward academic freedom and toward continuous dialogue with students will improve student college relationships and give student personnel workers an active role. Presented NASPA Center conference in San Diego, 1969. (KH)

The author believes in the ability of the student to make the right choices about his own education and takes the view that the university must shift its attention away from the conventional counter insurgent posture to one more in keeping with its true function as the educator of society. (Author/BY)

The author discusses the necessity of a shift of emphasis in drug education programs. This shift, from drug facts toward the meeting of human needs, involves attending to the school and community environment as it impinges upon youth. (Author/BY)

The evidence does not suggest that counselors have much succeeded in reducing the communication gap between themselves and other relevant groups. (Author)

The problem of what to do with the woman student personnel administrator when reorganization of the student personnel program occurs on college campuses has been discussed by many. This article reviews some of these discussions and then considers the future of this position. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine the kind of course work successful financial aid administrators feel essential for professional preparation in their field. Most important were courses dealing with the operational procedures of a financial aid office. (Author)

Data examined in the sense of the direction in which the University should be led show the goals of the student affairs staff and incoming students to be similar. Understanding the process of expectations changing into perceptions would help determine better methods for dealing with students' attitudes. (Author/BY)

This article suggests that students have experienced impersonality" because of their failure to discover the unique purpose of the university, and that the superficial impersonality" that does exist is a guarantee of equality of treatment. (Author)

Describes a four phase strategy used to identify, critique and improve an existing student services program consisting of collecting information, exchanging information among service units and faculty, publishing a student services handbook, and evaluating existing service effectiveness. (Author/JAC)