Meeting college students' basic needs is the goal of a new set of student success initiatives that address students' urgent food, housing, or financial hardships in an effort to help them remain and succeed in college. Focusing on one California public university, we describe one such basic needs program, identifying the students who participate,…

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) play a key role in diversifying the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics workforce. This chapter provides an overview of a funded National Science Foundation (NSF) grant program that incorporates learning and work in an effort to address racial/ethnic underrepresentation in the field of…

Increasing international student enrollment has been a key priority for many institutions of higher education in the United States. Such recruitment efforts, however, are often carried out without much consideration for providing sufficient support services to these students once they arrive to campus. This article proposes a model for structuring…

Purpose: This paper aims to introduce an enterprise-wide Web 2.0 learning support platform--SNAP, developed at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. Design/methodology/approach: Pointing to the evolution of the social web, the paper discusses the potential for the development of e-learning platforms that employ constructivist, connectivist,…

As much as it is eagerly anticipated, freshman year is often a time of confusion, disorientation, and even alienation for many students. One in four college freshmen will drop out before completing sophomore year. The reasons for this high level of withdrawal vary, but a report suggests that new students often feel overwhelmed and unprepared for…

The authors provide a selected review of mental health and educational concerns evident in U.S. middle schools and describes promising and important strategies to ameliorate the high rates of students with mental health and academic difficulties. Despite some promising and important strategies, service systems are fragmented, and comprehensive…

Important components of an adult student services office are the focus of this chapter. Examples of outstanding programs are highlighted, and areas of support for institutions at various planning stages of program development are presented. (Author)

This article describes the goals and programs of the Center for Student Development (Kansas State University), an interdisciplinary center for dispensement of student developmental services. (Author/HMV)

Help Anonymous, a volunteer-operated telephone service for persons in crisis, is presented in its various aspects. Five key areas, descriptive of the person in crisis, are delineated as are the external signs which signal that a crisis is impending or ongoing. The service is viewed as the right arm of the Pueblo Suicide Prevention Center, and in…

Discusses characteristics of reentry women and barriers to their success. Presents a comprehensive model to respond to the needs of reentry women including outreach programs, orientation, financial aid, child care, counseling and support groups. Administrators must be aware of the special needs of these students. (JAC)

This article, portions of which appeared in the January 1973 SIECUS Report, describes a combined sex education-sex counseling program at Yale University. (HMV)

Included in this presentation is a description of a student handbook containing rules and regulations of the campus, and information about transportation, housing, health services, extra curricular activities, and other data. A telephone network is described which operates around the clock to give students access to a wide variety of topics…

Describes a social work role that was developed at the City University of New York in response to the needs of an increasing number of economically disadvantaged students. (Author)

Describes a mechanical information system at the University of Kentucky which consists of a library of prerecorded information tapes on topics of special interest to students which can be played over the telephone at the request of the caller. (Author)

Describes an orientation program established to aid returning women students over the age of 25. The program's purpose is to acquaint women with the facilities of the school and to discover the needs and problems of women returning to school. (EJT)