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Webb, Mel – 1983
A comprehensive student basic skills assessment program was developed at St. Louis Community College (SLCC) at Florissant Valley to appraise student readiness to take courses, gather information for counseling and advising, diagnose student problems, and evaluate program efficiency and effectiveness. The steps taken in developing the program were:…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Counseling, Educational Testing
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Habley, Wes – NACADA Journal, 1986
Eight challenges for the future of academic advising are discussed: the development of research to provide evidence that quality advising assists in producing positive outcomes; to arouse campus decision-makers to action, to defend the value of advising during decline and retrenchment, to elevate the status of advising, etc. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Administration, College Faculty, College Students
Anderson, Del M. – 1981
In response to increased scrutiny of public education and the need for counselors to quantify and legitimate their work, Grossmont College (GC) has developed an accountability model for counselors. The model prescribes the identification of the statutory requirements, institutional needs and characteristics that establish the parameters for…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Planning, Community Colleges, Counseling
Gill, Wanda E.; And Others – 1989
The history of Bowie State University (BSU) in Maryland, is reviewed, from its establishment by the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of Colored People in 1865 to its attainment of university status in 1988. Its mission to provide educational programs and services to Maryland citizens of all races is outlined.…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Blacks, College Programs, College Students
Fullerton, Faye E.; Hays, Ina – 1993
In spring 1992, a group of faculty and staff at East Central College (ECC) in Union, Missouri, met to reconsider the school's orientation process, which had had limited success since its inception in 1987. The group developed a list of objectives for the orientation process and grouped them under the headings of skills, awareness, involvement, and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Educational Counseling
Bottoms, James E.; Otte, Frederick L. – 1968
This report presents the results of a developmental project which was conducted during 1966 and 1967 to plan and implement a program of student personnel services in Georgia's 25 post-secondary vocational-technical schools. In this report, student personnel services were defined as those services which aid the student to: (1) perceive…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Career Counseling, Career Development, Educational Counseling
Fillmore, Emery – 1991
Each semester in the 136 state-supported community colleges in California, counselors are involved in developing, maintaining, and/or revising hundreds of programs that may or may not result in helping students move efficiently through the system. Developed as a resource for administrators and counselors charged with improving community college…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Community Colleges, Counselor Role, Educational Counseling
Sandeen, Arthur; Goodale, Thomas – 1976
Described is a program developed by the Research Division of NASPA starting in 1971 that planned more thoroughly for transfer students to the university. After an introduction to the problem and a profile of the contemporary transfer student, problems of program articulation, academic advising, admissions, and student services (including housing,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Development, College Admission, College Housing
Lindemann, William H., Jr.; And Others – 1987
The Educational Services Process Model described in this guide is made up of six interactive and interdependent elements functionally related to the common goal of student success. After part I traces the evolution of student services in the community college, part II presents 10 assumptions for planning, highlighting the need for staff…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Programs, Community Colleges, Delivery Systems
Ellis, Thomas I. – 1991
This digest describes three complementary approaches to integrating guidance into education: (1) the Comprehensive Guidance Program Model, developed by Norman C. Gysbers; (2) the Teacher Advisor Program (TAP), developed by Robert D. Myrick; and (3) the Invitational Learning paradigm, developed by William W. Purkey. Four references are included.…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Comprehensive Guidance, Counseling Objectives, Counselor Role