Comprehensive advising in college is a logical place to begin the process of life planning. The approach results in education that is both liberating and holistic. It requires student development personnel with academic credentials, active faculty support, active student participation, and development of appropriate tools and processes. (MSE)

Small Canadian universities are extremely important agents of socioeconomic change for their regions. They focus on excellence in undergraduate education and applied rather than "heavy" research, filling roles the larger urban universities do not care to play in their place. They can be compared to U.S. liberal arts colleges. (MSE)

Presents an analysis of the organizational culture at Olivet College in Michigan. Discusses the legacy, roots, and history of the institution; the recent organizational history; and the changing nature of the organization at the time of a racial conflict in the spring of 1992 that gained both state and national attention. (SR)

Examined perceptions of cheating held by 480 college students and 48 faculty members at 2 small colleges. Eighty-nine percent of students surveyed admitted they had cheated. Attitudinal variables were better at predicting cheating than were background variables. Faculty agreed on a definition of cheating yet did not agree on how to deal with…

The experience of a small liberal arts college in repackaging and remarketing the entire institution to boost continuing education enrollment is described. The marketing team followed current theories, establishing the division as a self-generating unit with a small annual operating surplus. Proceeds are reinvested for periods of low enrollment.…

A new model for administration of institutional research in small colleges is proposed as an alternative to the traditional centralized program model. Application of the model for two years suggests that its decentralized but integrated approach responds well to the institution's internal and external research needs. (MSE)

Describes the implementation of portfolio assessment in a writing program at Kenai Peninsula College, a small college in Alaska. Discusses adjustments to the program, problems, and future applications. Suggests that portfolio assessment can be useful to a writing program even if it is implemented for only one or two semesters. (SR)

Presents findings from a space-management survey, their conclusions, and suggestions that small colleges or universities can use to more successfully handle their own space-management issues. Finally comments highlight the importance of having space data to aid in campus space decision making. (GR)

Describes how Bennett College, an historically black women's institution, is trying to regroup after its latest president lasted only seven months. (EV)

In this article, the author describes the hiring dilemma confronting liberal-arts colleges and offers advice to job seekers who are interested in working at liberal-arts colleges. One should read the college's mission statements and research its history. If it's serving a minority-students population and one has worked with those students, one…

The way private liberal arts colleges choose to answer the question, "How shall we govern ourselves in the 21st century?" has a great impact on what kinds of institutions that they can and will become. The urgency of this issue is apparent in public criticism, in governance disputes on many college campuses, and in recent publications on…

This article argues that graduate programs at large research universities do not prepare new WPAs for the realities of administrative work in small colleges. It first presents and then challenges a series of assumptions about the nature of WPA work, the resources available to facilitate that work, and the rhetorical strategies that are most useful…

The focus of this brief report about one small college's experience in providing personal counseling and psychotherapy to its students is on how the students used the services over their, generally, four years of matriculation. The 404 student users of counseling services from six classes of graduating students had an average number of sessions…

Academics have been accused of studying everything but themselves and this has been seen as a notable failure among those who are concerned with assisting others to understand the modern world. This failure is especially noticeable with respect to research on those individuals who inhabit the less prestigious institutions and teach less…

Continuous quality improvement is the clarion call across all business schools which is driving the emphasis on assessing the attainment of learning outcomes. An issue that deems special attention in assurance of learning outcomes is related to consistency across courses and, more specifically, across multiple sections of the same course taught by…