Presents biographical sketch of Elizabeth Adele Greenleaf, professor and coordinator of College Student Personnel Administration at Indiana University, who made significant contributions to the development of student affairs profession through her leadership as an educator, administrator, and mentor. (Author/ABL)

This document contains the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) statement, A Perspective on Student Affairs, issued in 1987 on the 50th anniversary of The Student Personnel Point of View. The document also provides the Student Personnel Point of View statements from 1949 and from 1937. The 1987 publication provides a…

Sketches of four early deans in the student personnel field, Stanley Coulter, Mary Bidwell Breed, Gertrude S. Martin and Herbert E. Hawkes, are presented. (Author)

Presents a short biographical essay on Herbert E. Hawkes who died in 1943. Before becoming dean of Columbia College, he had published noteworthy textbooks on mathematics and had taught at Yale and Columbia. His educational and administrative policies are reviewed here. (BEF)

This is a series of short biographical essays on LeBaron Russell Briggs (Harvard), Marion Talbot (University of Chicago), Thomas Arkle Clark (University of Illinois), and Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry. These were pioneers in student personnel work at the turn of the century. (BEF)

In the author's extensive research about leadership theories, higher education issues, and student outcomes, the success of several student affairs leaders became apparent. They all had worked at their institutions for an extended period of time and no precise leadership theory could describe their activities. A series of questions were identified…

In order to more fully understand the student services function in the community college, this paper presents a historical overview of the community college movement and the emergence of the student services profession in the United States. A parallel is drawn between the community college mission and the student services profession. The paper…

This paper provides a historical review of vocational guidance and student personnel work in order to bring attention to the need for a historical foundation in the field and to suggest a unified way of analyzing student service work as a profession. Vocational guidance is discussed first because it provides important insights into the historical…

Each year numerous research studies are conducted on problems in or related to school and college personnel services. Since many of these studies go unpublished, the results are all but lost to a large segment of people concerned with the improvement and operation of the services. The U.S. Office of Education was requested by the National…

In September 1947, the National Vocational Guidance Association, through its Division of Professional Training and Certification, appointed a planning committee to work out a manual on the preparation of counselors. Interest in this project spread until seven additional organizations expressed a willingness to cooperate. The results of the study…