Discusses roles of school counselor in outreach, advocacy, and consultation. Presents intervention model which includes three levels of identification across six categories of situations and conditions. Concludes that, as counselors become more comfortable with multidimensional roles, their effectiveness will expand. (ABL)

Describes a role-play exercise that offers an experiential means to teach counseling students about process consultation. Claims exercise provides an experiential framework for understanding the role of the consultant but also illustrates the complexity of interpersonal dynamics within an existing organization. (ABL)

Describes the reading specialist's role in the Collaborative Literacy Intervention Project (CLIP) of the Tempe (Arizona) School District. (SR)

Describes a business consultant's frustrated efforts to participate in the New American Schools Development Corporation's reform process. Instead of encouraging broad participation from business people, social scientists, learning theorists, parents, and others, NASDC confined its chief advisory panel to educators, eschewed creative…

Explored African-American teachers' (n=24) preferences for and ratings of consultant effectiveness as a function of consultant race, consultant style, and teacher stage of racial identity development. Found no significant differences in preferences for either a same- or opposite-race consultant. Participants preferred and rated as more effective…

Before committing to the expense of consultancy, the college administrator needs to consider several basic questions: "what is the problem?" and "what is keeping the staff from solving the problem?" Certain kinds of problems are more likely than others to benefit from consultant expertise. (MSE)

Presents a study of students with severe reading difficulties in a public school setting. Compares the results with those of a study conducted in 1946. Suggests that field-based specialists can do a thorough diagnosis with tests and procedures currently available. (MG)

Describes how counselors, in consultation with parents, may be able to offer significant psychological support to adolescents facing hospitalization. Describes techniques and approaches designed to maintain a vital and stable link between the school, the hospital, and (during recovery) the adolescent's home. (NB)

Discusses role of school counselor as consultant on discipline within schools. Reviews two popular school discipline models: Obedience models, based on the premise that telling students what to do is permissible and that punishment is effective intervention for misbehavior; and Responsibility models, focused on helping students to accept personal…

Delineates model of supervision for consultation training. Describes trainee characteristics and supervision needs across three levels of development, culminating in integrated level with developed skills across eight domains of consultation activity. Tracks development other-awareness, motivation, and autonomy. Presents suggestions for…

Explores the influence of race and consultant verbal behavior on preservice teachers (N=154) perceptions of consultants' competence and multicultural sensitivity. The preservice teachers viewed videotapes of a problem definition interview in which the race of the consultee, race and verbal behavior of the consultant were completely crossed.…

Reports on a recent trend at community colleges to employ consultants to advise on ways to recruit and retain students. Suggests such efforts are due to current enrollment declines after years of steadily increasing enrollments. Notes the competition of for-profit institutions and online courses. Quotes both critics and supporters of using…

Business management students in a graduate entrepreneurship course diagnosed and researched problems for clients of the Small Business Development Center and presented findings to clients, the class, and evaluators. The model gives students conducting experience and develops closer ties to the business community. (SK)

Offers guidance for a college or university's investment committee on management of endowment funds. Considers traits of a good committee, the importance of long-term planning, the role of consultants, the important role of the committee chair, and the need to monitor professional managers' performance. (DB)

Provides advice on successfully managing an educational facility's roofing system by first getting the best roofing system possible, then undertaking regular precautionary measures to assure its peak performance. Specific points address such areas as choosing a roofing contractor, hiring a professional to create specifications, monitoring…