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Eveslage, Thomas – 1988
This digest reviews earlier court decisions which led up to the Supreme Court's 1988 "Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier" decision and also discusses the "Hazelwood" case's implications for freedom of student expression. The digest cites various documents in the ERIC database which deal with student journalism, censorship,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Censorship, Faculty Advisers, Freedom of Speech
Frost, Susan H. – 1991
This brief report summarizes a longer report with the same title. It focuses on the outcomes of academic advising within the context of research on contact between faculty and students, student involvement, and persistence. It is suggested that colleges and universities use strategic planning to design advising programs based on relationships of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Educational Counseling
Railsback, Gary; Colby, Anita – 1988
While there is general consensus on the importance of good academic advising to student success and support for the American College Testing Program's developmental concept of advising, there is less agreement on the most effective model for delivery. Research suggests that both faculty-oriented advising and professional counselor-oriented systems…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Community Colleges, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Theories
Pavel, D. Michael – 1992
Achieving equity in the number of American Indian and Alaskan Native students who enter college and subsequently graduate is important to Natives and to the nation as a whole. Based on institutional data and demographic data, state equity scores for enrollment (ESEs) and state equity scores for graduation (ESGs) were computed for seven states with…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, College Attendance, College Graduates
Frost, Susan H. – 1991
This monograph examines student advising in the higher education setting by focusing on shared responsibility strategies that enhance student motivation and persistence in a diverse student population. In the first two sections, a new concept of advising called developmental advising is described in which the relationship between advisor and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Students, Athletes, College Freshmen
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King, Margaret C., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1993
Offering new perspectives on academic advising in community colleges, this book defines developmental academic advising, describes the organization and delivery of advising services, and discusses key components of effective programs. The following 10 chapters are included: (1) "Developmental Academic Advising," by Thaddeus M. Raushi,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges