Increased employer and faculty involvement are but two beneficial spin-offs of a new Audiovisual Career Information System developed for students at North Carolina State University. (Author)

This directory lists currently funded High School Equivalency Programs (HEPs) and College Assistance Migrant Programs (CAMPs) in the United States. The HEP allows migrant workers or their dependents to prepare for the General Educational Development high school equivalency diploma in a residential college setting or as commuters to class. Career…

This report contains amendments to H.R. 4089, the "Veterans Educational and Vocational Counseling Amendments of 1990," which would amend Title 38, U.S. Code, with respect to educational and vocational counseling for veterans. The report describes major provisions, discusses the background of the bill, and provides a section-by-section…

A quasi-experimental design using four matched groups of 88 students each of entering college freshmen investigated the question of whether increasing exposure to different types of orientation programming would have any effect upon freshman academic performance and reaction to college. The types of orientation included: (1) traditional…

The role of school counselors has expanded in the 1980s in response to societal changes. The traditional services of individual appraisal, career information, counseling, placement, follow-up, and research are now accompanied by the need for counselors to work with problems such as dropouts and potential dropouts; substance abusers; suicide;…

Lane Community College's Computer Assisted Advising Tool (CAAT) is used by counselors to assist students in developing a plan for the completion of a degree or certificate. CAAT was designed to facilitate student advisement from matriculation to graduation by comparing degree requirements with the courses completed by students. Three major sources…

In spring 1985, Morton College's (MC's) counseling staff instituted a student development model for academic advising to encourage students to assume greater responsibility in planning their educational and career goals. During their first academic advising appointment: (1) new students are made aware of the importance of their commitment to their…

This chapter describes a new type of educational development, called student development; considers how student development relates to faculty, instructional, and organizational development; and describes innovative student development programs at several universities. As used in this discussion, the term student development involves a process by…

In 1974 the Syracuse University Research Corporation developed the Regional Learning Service (RLS) to provide a free-standing, community-based educational and career information and counseling agency. RLS disaffiliated from the parent body in 1979 and turned to client fees, contracts, and contributions for a financial base. Clients'…

Five counselors and the 513 graduates of 6 Kansas rural high schools for the period of 1981 to 1984 participated in a study designed to elicit a better understanding of counseling services in small, rural high schools and of the activities of the graduates of these schools during the first 4 years past graduation. Counselors provided the…

Described a method for creating a statewide plan for staff development of community college faculties. (Author/RK)

This report discusses one of the consistent problems in school counseling and guidance-that of furnishing concrete evidence concerning the effects of counseling and guidance activities on the development of children. The following causal factors are discussed: (1) the difficulty of pinning down abstractly stated goals in an operational manner at…

The administrative process related to the transition of students from intermediate or junior high school is called articulation. Articulation has several stages: identifying student interests, needs and abilities; getting information to students and parents; helping students apply to the school of their choice; informing students and parents of…

The features of a new academic advising program at Bentley College, Massachusetts, are described, and the results of a faculty evaluation of the new program are presented. Incoming freshmen are assigned a faculty adviser, who is also one of their classroom instructors. The adviser is provided advising information for each advisee each semester on…

Various sources of prospective student information were studied, and a small sample of graduate students, faculty, administrators, and professional association officers were interviewed in order to learn more about the information needs of prospective graduate students in the exploratory stage. Most students reported no serious information need…