In this review of "On Personal Power: Inner Strength and Its Revolutionary Impact" by Carol Rogers, the authors find Rogers' ideas on the political effects of humanistic theory and practice (though they may err on the side of optimism) to be as fresh, powerful, and useful as his previous work and thought. (MJB)

Human service education broadens traditional concepts of teaching and learning so that educators can be more genuinely responsive to the true range of human needs. (MM)

The report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform," is criticized for overemphasizing human resource needs and economic utility at the expense of intellectual, moral, and spiritual learnings. Other perspectives on reform in the schools and in teacher education are…

Presents a proposal that student affairs professionals seize the opportunity to become instructional experts. (Author)

Enlarged roles for student personnel professionals are presented, including major instructional emphases to make them co-equal with teaching faculty. The focus is on humanistic redefinitions of teaching and learning operationally applied to student development educators in and outside conventional classrooms. Specific examples of this partnership…