Drawing on findings from a recent study of the graduate student experience and the graduate school environment, the authors offer a series of recommendations designed to modify training in ways that would optimize student intellectual and personal development. Focus is on the student and the interrelation of intellectual and emotional factors.…

Advice to college admissions officers is provided including recognition of individuals and responding to names, faces, interests, and personalities. Alert, personalized care and feeding will encourage the student's interest and can lead to an application and perhaps enrollment. (MLW)

This paper examines a large undergraduate teacher education program which had as a major goal allaying students' feelings of depersonalization and alienation. Specifically looked at are: (1) processes leading to a sense of community, responsibility, and influence among students and staff and (2) processes countering such development. (Author/MT)

Suggests the salience of the "commuter perspective" attitude toward higher education, since the majority of students commute. Advocacy is urged to overcome the historical and predominantly exclusive residential perspective. The role of the commuter advocate is delineated, and necessary skills defined. Services, facilities and issues of equal…

Special admissions programs may offer access into higher education for students who, for various reasons, do not meet the institutions' standard admissions criteria. Once the special admissions status has been granted, these programs provide support to these students. This paper is not a critique of special admissions programs in general or…

This author deals with college and community college counselors. The counselor/client ratio appears somewhat more favorable than before but the trend appears to be a considerable flattening out in the frequency of staff additions. Some other trends in collegiate counseling discussed here are accountability, minority group members as counselors and…

This article provides a staunch defense for the traditional academic values and the role of the teacher in making them defensible. (Editor)

Discusses the role students should take in the administration of their universities. (PG)

The survey concludes that college admissions are scarcely affected by the initiation of coeducational housing, that alumni reaction has been sparse and when negative not felt to be permanently damaging; and that alumni giving has not seemed to suffer as a direct result of the establishment of coeducational dormitories. (Author)

In a study conducted by the American Council on Education, it was determined that social background, student ability and college quality determine the impact that college will have on students. (HS)

This model is an attempt to relate Marshall McLuhan's approach to media to the field of student personnel work. (Author)

Second article by same author in this issue on student activism. Notes philosophical differences regarding power structure, decision making, at the college level which are probably manifestations of deeper discontent over social issues which students cannot directly control. Followed by seven critical reviews. (CJ)