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Boyd, Diana – Campus Activities Programming, 1992
Research suggests that addition or expansion of a comprehensive student activities program at community colleges can lower the high student attrition rate and the cost of constant recruitment. Although increased emphasis on comprehensive extracurricular activities can be expensive in personnel and other resources, it may be a worthwhile…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Extracurricular Activities
Peer reviewedKarns, Julie – Planning for Higher Education, 1993
The traditional college student personnel services model must be streamlined for efficiency and effectiveness. Common problems include poor advice and counseling for students, inflexible staffing patterns, and uncoordinated policy making. Pratt Institute (New York) followed a four-phase process of redesigning policies and procedures, reorganizing,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Administration, College Planning, Counseling Services
Peer reviewedMiville, Marie L.; Sedlacek, William E. – NACADA Journal, 1995
A study compared student use of and satisfaction with the central advising office and departmental advising in a college of engineering by surveying 57 central office walk-in advisees and, by mail, 103 other advisees. No significant differences were found in advisor availability and concern, but more students used departmental faculty advisors.…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Centralization, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedTwale, Darla J.; And Others – Higher Education, 1992
A study of seven diverse professional schools suggests that, although a variety of strategies (e.g., early identification, preprofessional contact, resocialization of faculty and matriculated students, and support services) can produce successful affirmative action for women and minority students, a concise, directed program geared to the school's…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Case Studies, College Faculty, College Students
Duarte, E. D. – 1983
During its first year of operation in 1982-83, the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) at Oregon State University (OSU) fully achieved 19 of its 20 goals. The program to recruit and assist migrant seasonal farmworker students in higher education faced three major problems during the year: late organization, OSU's rigorous academic demands,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Career Awareness, Delivery Systems
Oblinger, Diana G., Ed.; Rush, Sean C., Ed. – 1998
This collection of 16 monographs centers around the theme the "future compatible campus," which is based on the premise that higher education will become a "connected campus" in a technology-enabled environment consisting of three components: connected learning, connected service to the community; and connected management. In…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Services, Computer Assisted Instruction
