The author examines the current literature about students and higher education discussing the major trends and ideas emerging. Emphasis on student development, special programs to serve minority students, and development of meaningful curricular environments are some of the few trends student personnel workers have been paying attention to lately.…

Institutions are urged to take into consideration the particular stage of moral development their students have reached so as to avoid proscribing moral values and conduct which disregard the students' level of development and which might be dysfunctional to their development. (SE)

Perry (1968) in a study of intellectual and ethical development in the college years suggested that instructors must meet two specific requirements to help insure the development of commitment in students. This paper examines these two requirements in terms of the discussion of authority put forth by Arieti (1972). (Author)

The study was designed to investigate value patterns among students selecting to reside in dissimilar situations: residence halls, Greek houses, cooperatives, and off-campus dwellings. Student value preferences and differences are presented. Discussed the need to design living group environments that provide intellectual stimulation and minimize…

More effective working relationships need to be established between faculty and student affairs staff for the purpose of developing a curriculum that promotes the full spectrum of student development goals. This study attempts to provide information that would assist in the initial planning and implementation of these new relationships. (Author)

Describes President Carter's tuition relief proposal for middle class students, some findings on the lack of awareness of the democratic process by young students, and the federal government's efforts to increase school-desegregation in publicly supported universities. (RK)

Attention has focused recently on the educational neglect of children in the hospital. Author visits a children's hospital school which tries to allow children to live rather than merely exist. (Editor/RK)

The need for a Learning Facilitation Team is described which cooperatively works to find solutions for the problems presented by specific students. The team is also charged with the responsibility of encouraging total staff involvement to build a total school plan for helping students. (Author)

Discovers that all is not well with the EEC-funded mother tongue project in Bedford. (Editor)

While many teachers view the current trend in education toward more formal methods of assessment with considerable anxiety, there seems to be little coherent expression of the part that assessment should play, and the form it should take. Outlines an approach to assessment that seems appropriate and supports educational requirements in a primary…

Investigates how two different types of school grade level organization affect social and psychological development of adolescent youth. Compares K-8 structures with K-6 and junior high school settings. Discusses differential changes between sixth and seventh grade in students' self-esteem, participation in extracurricular activities, and…

Ways in which the vocational teacher, supervisor, and administrators may assist the student in his or her pursuit of self-improvement. (HD)

The alternating use and misuse of the terms student personnel work, student affairs and student development are discussed thoroughly. Here are recommendations: "student personnel work" should be put to rest; "student affairs" should be used in reference to actual services; and "student development" should apply to related philosophy and underlying…

Student personnel professionals must be willing to provide the leadership for taking on the important challenges of student development in the face of increasingly difficult conditions, which will continue to face colleges and universities. Presented at the American College Personnel Association Convention, March 1977, Denver, Colorado. (Author)

Social studies preservice teachers received background information on Kohlberg's theory of moral development and were trained to use one of the rater guides in his new "issue stage scoring system." They were directed to score sample moral thought statements, some on an intuitive basis and some with the rater guides. No overall differences between…