Effective counseling with high-risk students must begin with interpersonal skills and then go beyond traditional practices to create a low-risk learning environment. (Author/LBH)

A serious aid delivery problem exists and colleges concerned about declining enrollment may come to count more heavily on efforts at the secondary level to counsel needy students with college potential on ways to obtain a financial aid package. The efforts of some organizations, including Cleveland Scholarship Programs, Inc., are described. (LBH)

Focuses on the counseling-related goals that depend upon the effective involvement of non-counseling personnel. Presents a rationale for synergistic team efforts, illustrating the concept with a case study of a collegewide approach to improving the process of initial student assessment. (AYC)

Each of the four issues of the newsletter of the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented focus on a theme: guidance and counseling, continuing options for gifted learners, early childhood gifted, and gifted students in the global community. Issues usually contain theme-related major articles, columns by the Association's president and…

This handbook is intended to assist North Carolina community colleges in enhancing their online counseling services. Based on reviews of 58 community colleges in North Carolina, along with several state, national, and university web sites, and the collective efforts of a statewide committee, this handbook offers: (1) General tips for improving…

Article considers admissions policies of colleges, the problems of gaining admission that students must overcome, and the role of the admissions counselor in helping students pursue their interests at the college of their choice. (RK)

Describes successful creative counseling programs for Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles. (Author)

Attempts to identify the nature and origin of the new demands made on child guidance services since the late 1960s, looks at the responses of the services to those demands, discusses psychologists' changing perceptions of their roles, and offers some tentative indications of possible future lines of development. (Author/CM)

Counseling and guidance at higher education institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany are examined. Characteristics of the educational scene, student problems, the development of counseling and guidance, and a test model of a counseling and guidance system being implemented and evaluated at the University of the Saarland are discussed.…

Examined problems college freshmen saw as appropriate for discussion with a counselor and whether they would prefer a male or female counselor. Results indicate educa- tional/vocational/academic problems were the most appropriate and personal adjustment problems the least. Overall 75% expressed "no preference" about sex of counselor. (Author)

Cites the inadequacy of traditional counseling services in helping developmental education students comprehend grading options, registration policies, and other components of the educational bureaucracy. Suggests an academic intervention strategy to correct this situation, incorporating student orientation, systematic monitoring of student…

Analysis showed no significant differences between traditional and nontraditional students to the type of counseling they were seeking. New questions were raised, however, regarding the adequacy of counseling services in general and as specifically related to nontraditional students. (Author)

Objective tests and subjective feedback indicate that carefully planned informational telephone calls from faculty to accepted students help attract new students to Curry College. The advising system at Curry supplements admissions efforts to aid acceptees into becoming matriculated freshmen. (Author)

The University of Notre Dame's Freshman Year of Studies program is described. It takes into account the uncertainty characteristic of many entering freshmen and fosters an attitude of flexibility in students' considerations of academic programs and career goals. (AF)