Reports on a nationwide survey to gain information about the current status of the student personnel profession. Questions were designed to provide a profile of the institutions surveyed, a profile of the chief student personnel officers, and a profile of student affairs staff. Discusses several areas of concern about the results of the data. (PC)

The principal purpose of this study was to determine how major student affairs administrators (N=410) rated potential professional development activities. A second purpose was to assess the accuracy with which a group of faculty (N=35), involved in doctoral level programs in the field, understood practitioner preferences. (Author)

Results of the most recent Administrative Salary Survey of the Association of American Medical Colleges are analyzed. The data represent 94 U.S. medical schools, with the number of applicable staff positions ranging from two to 52 per institution. The positions considered included those in which at least 20 percent of the time was spent in…