Tested a conceptual model of influences from students' goals for college on freshman-year growth. Degree aspiration level was a significant influence on intellectual gains, and social goals surpassed both degree aspiration level and career certainty as influences on personal-social gains. These variables influenced outcomes in part because they…

The first "Student Personnel Point of View" (1937) still stands as the premiere statement of excellence for the student personnel profession. Several propositions are requisites to achieving the goal of development in students. Students, professional staff, and institutions must all achieve their goals. The environment must be…

A conceptual view of student development and the milieu of an urban commuter college are discussed. Student development is defined as the application of human development theory, principles, and concepts in an educational setting to identify the forms of development in students to which the institution is willing and able to commit its resources.…

Results of a survey of chief student affairs officers to determine the nature of program innovations using student development goals underscored the importance of leadership and championship, in the Probability of Adoption of Change Model. (Author/ABB)