Nine dimensions that address the development of African-American students are proposed for inclusion in psychosocial theories of college student development: developing racial and ethnic identity, interacting with dominant culture, developing cultural aesthetics and awareness, developing identity, developing interdependence, fulfilling affiliation…

Describes the author's experiences at and perceptions of St. John's College, Cambridge, between 1945 and 1948. Relates influences on and changes in his social, cultural, political and artistic values. (DMM)

Presents material from a three-hour interview with Nevitt Sanford and from as yet unpublished personal papers of Sanford's, in which he reminisces about his development as a social scientist, civil libertarian, and humanist. (Author/NB)

Identified mentoring programs for college students. Focused on program objectives, target audiences, organizational structures, operational strategies, and performance and retention outcomes. Findings from 38 institutions revealed that most programs were designed to promote retention, especially for minority students. Others were designed for…

Investigated live supervision in counselor preparation programs by surveying 307 counselor preparation programs. Live supervision was used at 157 institutions and was used in preparing individual, group, and marriage and family counselors. At least 75 percent of programs provided live supervision weekly. Techniques of cotherapy and remote viewing…

Describes service learning projects in high schools in Columbus, Ohio; Columbia, South Carolina; and Williamson County, Tennessee. Discusses the role of the National Service Learning Clearinghouse and chronicles the growth of service learning programs since 1984. (JOW)

A four-year, qualitative study of graduate students revealed graduate student development, students' perceptions of the academic career, and graduate students' suggestions for improving graduate socialization experiences. It also provided recommendations and policy questions for faculty advisors, chairpersons, teaching assistant supervisors, and…

Suggests reasons why education is difficult and contentious, arguing that educational thinking draws on only three fundamental ideas (socializing the young, shaping the minds by a disciplined academic curriculum, and facilitating the development of students' potential) and that the problems in education are due to these ideas, which are fatally…

A growing body of literature on risk and resilience, school engagement, and positive psychology offers school psychologists new perspectives with which to consider students' progress through school. This literature emphasizes the importance of monitoring student internal and external assets. In this article, a framework is reviewed that highlights…

This article describes a stage-based model of leadership identity development (LID) that resulted from a grounded theory study on developing a leadership identity (Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella, & Osteen, 2005). The LID model expands on the leadership identity stages, integrates the categories of the grounded theory into the LID model, and…

Pearl Amelia McHaney provides focus essays for students to develop their thoughts and contribute to meaningful class discussions. Teofilo Ruiz provides three principles to educate his students as per them.

The effects of subversive teaching on the students and the problems created by being subversive are discussed. Subversive teaching is essential for the growth of the students, but only to a certain extent in developing their perspectives.

The leadership identity development (LID) grounded theory (Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella, & Osteen, 2005) and related LID model (Komives, Longerbeam, Owen, Mainella, & Osteen, 2006) present a framework for understanding how individual college students develop the social identity of being collaborative, relational leaders…

With the emergence of a new generation of strong and empowered female student leaders on college campuses, a special type of female leader, the Alpha Female, has developed. This study examines the essence of having an Alpha Female identity for 13 undergraduate women at a Midwestern university. Extensive interviews were conducted; transcripts were…

Over the next 20 years, experts predict that the number of Latina/o children in the U.S. will double, so that by the year 2025, one in four school children will be Latina/o (White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, 1998). Yet the academic achievement of Latina/os lags far behind that of other ethnic and racial…