Campus activities programing benefits from good training of student volunteers. Business training theory can be applied to student organizations. Training programs should be designed for four phases of volunteer experience (recruitment, testing, active, and exit) and emphasize leadership development. (MSE)

The use of focus groups to assess existing college student leadership efforts and as a step in developing better programs is examined. Procedures include assembling a planning team, identifying information needs, determining the composition of focus groups, soliciting and training volunteers, and using focus group results to design a program. (MSE)

Offers 12 specific techniques for planning campus activities and training volunteers and other personnel to minimize risks at campus events. These include anticipating legal and insurance issues, assessing potential risks, using case studies to explore complexities of risk management, instituting training in emergency procedures, involving…

In addition to conventional methods of easing leadership transition in student activities organizations (orderly transfer of significant organizational knowledge, minimizing confusion, sense of completion for outgoing leaders, identification of potential leaders, careful nominee selection), retreats are recommended as a means of creating shared…

Some innovations in portable technology are of particular interest to community colleges, where students are more likely to be commuters and/or have multiple commitments. Professionals in campus activities programming can capitalize on computer-literacy course requirements for the benefit of their student volunteers in ways that encourage them to…