Concerned with the development of the student personnel professional, this survey finds inconsistencies among training institutions that lead them to recommend that the profession begin to police itself. Suggested as a start is a national committee on standards and accreditation. (Author)

In this article the author surmises that student personnel, envisioned as a unifying force, can inject into higher education a coherence" appropriate to the twentieth century. As a team, personnel educators can establish educational programs and can provide leadership which will challenge students to seek education as a springboard to continuous…

A brief report of ways the non-academic aspects of international education can affect the success or failure of the venture from an academic standpoint along with proposed guidelines for the non-academic counseling of the American student going abroad. (JC)

This discussion of the evolution of student personnel workers and their plight as budgets have been tightened gives suggestions of ways this group could use their human relations expertise to recover from their current condition of institutional impotence. (JC)

This brief article presents sources of information available about job possibilities in non-traditional areas of counseling or student personnel work. (JC)

The purpose of this study was to gain a profile of the current membership of the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors and ascertain opinions of the members about present status and future directions o the organization. The typical member feels very free to express opinions but less free to initiate action; being a woman she perceives…

This paper concerns the role of student personnel workers as models for the rest of the university community in experimentation for the positive renovation of higher education. (JC)

The author concludes that the lack of effectiveness of student personnel services in junior colleges may be a result of an inherent limitation in the historical perspective of services, passive to the overall objectives of the institution. This passivity can be replaced by an active and dynamic conceptualization of behavioral guidance programs.…

Indicates briefly that the field of student personnel work is in trouble, has always been in trouble, and will be extinct unless it takes positive action soon. (Author/CJ)

Student personnel workers can prepare the academic community for student participation by: (1) making staff aware of previous examples of participation; (2) creating an atmosphere of trust and good will; (3) refusing to become scapegoats for student disruption; and (4) becoming involved in areas traditionally outside their scope. (CJ)

This discussion of the preparation and development of student personnel workers for the 80's proposes a model for implementation through which student personnel workers would contribute to the curricular environment and as a group have impact on the university community. (JC)

The present study was an attempt to investigate possible ways that the institution, and particularly the student personnel and counseling staffs, could provide some help to students who experience serious problems in dealing with their grief reactions. (Author)

The committee on Professional Development of NAWDC concluded that student personnel curricula should make provisions for internships and academic work to be taken concurrently to enable future graduates to increase their professional skill and understanding of the total program of student personnel services. (Author/BY)

A discussion of two trends in education and their implications for student personnel workers. These forces are first, financial pressures with the closely related concept of accountability and secondly, educational egalitarianism and the belief that through education we can remove social and economic inequalities. Speech presented at the…