The field of Student Personnel is currently undergoing a major organizational transition as attempts are made to change the purpose statement to read "student development" rather than "student services." This article addresses the question of whether the shift to student development is a random or an explainable phenomenon. (Author)

This model attempts to provide both internal responsibility and a measurement of services. It is suggested that each unit of an educational institution should be individually accountable for balancing its costs and benefits to that institution. (Author/PC)

This paper describes strategies for two types of accountability evaluations: internal and external. (Internal evaluations are a unit's evaluations of itself. An external evaluation involves people not affiliated with the unit.) These strategies were developed by the Center for Counseling and Student Development at the University of Delaware.…

Higher education should prepare students to cope with a world where change is the only constant. Speech given at NASPA Conference, Kansas City, April 4, 1978. (Author)

Two chief personnel officers review external regulation and provide guidelines for institutional responses to these regulations. (Author)

The territorial imperative ought not to threaten the well-being of a species. For faculty and student affairs, symbiotic relationships must be sought through a redefinition of territories, and through recognition that territories are not mutually exclusive. For student affairs, one route to new ground is through research. (Author/PC)

Why and how college counseling centers should be evaluated. (Author)

There has been sufficient experience with non-punitive grading to identify at least two principles that underlie its uniqueness and educational merit. These principles are (1) accumulated competence and (2) sufficient consequence. By contrasting non-punitive grading with the traditional grading system, these principles become distinctly apparent.…

A grievance system which provides measures of appropriate treatment for students and faculty and improves the quality of life for both is discussed in this article. (Author)

Unless women administrators are supported in their professional development, Student Affairs is not likely to meet the needs of women students. (Author)

Evaluation programs for administrators should be adapted to institutional characteristics. (Author)

This plan represents an effort to examine what each unit in student development does, and to relate it to the goals and purposes of the institution. Descriptions of an internal study of student services at the University of Georgia is included as an example. (PC)

Explores several schools of organizational thought and their contribution to a new approach called organizational development. Three attempts to operationalize the concepts of organizational development are discussed in terms of their assets and liabilities. The three approaches are: self study model, external consultant model, organizational…

A disciplinary hearing must be a growth-producing experience for the student. Student Affairs professionals can make it such. (Author)

Businessman examines the mutual interests and need of higher education and business. Speech given at the NASPA Conference, Kansas City, April 3, 1978. (Author)