Nursing school faculty and students at the University of Minnesota were surveyed for their attitudes toward the academic advisement process, specifically a one-year trial system called core advising. Findings showed that students needed and wanted advising services and that faculty advisors must have a reduced teaching load with preparation for…

This article summarizes the results of the field trial of DISCOVER, a computerized, interactive career guidance system intended to be used with students in grades seven to 12. (Author)

Our policy is an attempt to ensure that counselling services are seen as a total program with personal-social, educational, and career counselling receiving a balanced emphasis over a student's secondary school years. The three services are seen as integral components of the total educational experience of each student. (Author)

Draws from interviews with five female Italian-American community college students who were over 30 when they began or resumed their education to assess the special educational and counseling needs of these non-traditional students. Cites lack of family support, restrictive sex-role stereotyping, and negative images of Italian-Americans as…

UCLA's Academic Counseling Service studied the university's general education program. Ways in which a general education curriculum can be modified so that students can acquire requisite academic skills that will help them beyond their college years are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Describes behaviors typical of high aspiration high school students denied admission to prestigious colleges. Students feel inadequate, parents may be devastated, and students and families may plot to influence the admission office. Counselors play a vital role in assisting student and family with an objective assessment of remaining alternatives.…

Describes a skills development program to encourage high-risk students to stay in college and succeed. Block programming is used, and a counseling course included is designed to help students develop attitudes, behaviors, and skills that will help them make a successful adjustment to college. Program evaluation and implications discussed. (KS)

Recent research on science achievement among disadvantaged students in grades K-12 is reviewed. Findings on effects of race, SES, and several classroom factors are discussed. Patterns of preparation and science career choice are examined from the perspectives of students' gender, attitudes toward science, and counseling of minority students. (MCK)

The current preoccupation of educational guidance services with information providing and their unproblematical approach to counseling are limitations on their potential. Unless counselors reach out, intervene, and initiate institutional and curricular change, they will help deny personal growth and community development to the majority of adults.…

Describes a range of computer-assisted applications for the distance education system at the Fernuniversitat in Hagen, Federal Republic of Germany, which include distance teaching organization, counseling, text-processing for study materials, test and assignment scoring, course evaluation, and telecommunication and computer access with videotex.…

The fate of community college counseling will be determined not only by budget retrenchment, but also by the actions of counselors themselves. Rather than attempting to do more with less, counselors should analyze student needs and make priority decisions about what can be done within available resources. (AYC)

The experimental treatment was more effective in increasing vocational development than either the individual counseling or control treatments, and individual counseling was more effective than the control treatment. No differences were found among groups in regard to individual counselors, sex of students, or in student counseling assessments.…

The study investigated level of alienation in college students who sought personal adjustment or vocational-educational counseling and students who did not seek counseling. Although results of a factorial analysis of variance indicated that students who seek counseling reported more pronounced feelings of alienation on all scales than students who…

Author decided to illustrate the complexity of the community college student body by a series of profiles or case studies of individual students. (Author/RK)

Study says graduates' employment expectations often clash with labor market realities. (Editor)