With a knowledge of students' thinking processes, activities advisers and leaders can design environments for maximum learning and development. An interpretation of Perry's model of intellectual and ethical development is provided. (MLW)

Student activities professionals have a role in teaching ethics on campuses. Teaching ethics is defined as "the process of teaching ethical decision making." Karen Strohm Kitchener's "Model of Ethical Decision Making" provides a framework to be used when looking at an ethical problem. (MLW)

One means of addressing the need for student leadership education is the weekend retreat. Putting together a successful retreat experience involves assessing the needs of the target group and evaluating resources available; developing ownership and advocacy for the retreat; establishing learning outcomes; designing the format; and implementing the…

In examining the role of student affairs programming and cocurricular involvement as it relates specifically to black students, two perspectives on student development are used to investigate developmental opportunities: Arthur Chickering's developmental vectors and Alexander Astin's student involvement theory. Time management and providing for…