This speech promotes student involvement in community service activities. The notions of traditional American volunteerism and community spirit support the idea of students devoting their afterschool talents and energy to helpful endeavors such as tutoring, visiting nursing homes, planting trees, cleaning up ocean shores and river banks, clearing…

This article was used in the Writers Workshop sponsored by the American School Counselor Association Publications Committee at the American Personnel and Guidance Convention, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-11, 1968.

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An active and viable student council can help to involve both rebellious and uncommitted students in useful outlets. The major causes of ineffective councils are homogeneous membership, weak leadership, and misinformed faculty advisors. Principals should take the initiative in solving these problems. To break down homogeniety, the council should…

Student leaders of campus and national organizations note the most pressing student interests and concerns on and off campus this fall. The issues include personal needs for health and child care to national political and educational issues and international affairs. (MSE)

Provides brief descriptions of models of general types of environmental leadership programs. Summarizes the characteristics of conventional approaches to teaching values and skills. Also, elaborates on four examples of leadership programs, reviewing their distinctive features. (ML)

The factors influencing minority students to apply for or run for student leadership offices at a predominantly white Christian college were studied. Four African American and two Hispanic American students in leadership positions at the college were asked about the reasons they applied for the leadership position and support or obstacles they…

Traces the development of the NSA, places it in the context of the 1950s, in which it developed into a major national organization, evaluates its role on campus, and fills in some historical gaps in the growth of student activism and politics in the U.S., since NSA has received little analytic attention. (Author/JM)

Hypothesis that Protestant, middle-class males would predominantly lead society changing" organizations was rejected by the data. (MB)

Describes a campus conflict in hopes that information can help student personnel workers to assume a more effective role in conflict management. (Author/CJ)

The article describes an experimental program of leadership identification and development in four institutions of higher education. (Author)

Results of the study suggest that student leaders differ according to their campus reference groups; these differences are predictable based on the unique characteristics that tend to describe the subcultural groups. (Author)