The rapid changes evidenced in higher education have force student personnel professionals to examine traditional practices that promote only slow, incremental change. This requires a shift from focusing on leaders to focusing on leadership. Collaborative leadership can help reshape structures and processes in higher education so that they can…

Proposes that development opportunities designed to clarify one's values and beliefs as part of an overall leadership training model will help meet one of society's most pressing needs: leadership rooted in the cultural value of improving the human condition for everyone. (Author)

Asserts that transformational leadership principles can help student affairs staff to actualize their own leadership potential and to model appropriate leadership characteristics for student government leaders. Discusses implications for practice. (KW)

Cultural factors can influence the way Asian American students display leadership as well as how they are perceived as leaders. Redefining leadership and devising inclusive leadership development programs can help to empower Asian American students and encourage them to become more involved on campus. (Contains 22 references.) (Author)

Describes components critical to effective leadership. Focuses on organizational patterns, such as comparison groups and restructuring; staffing patterns, including admissions and diversity; and budgeting, such as sources of budgets, student affairs, alternative funding sources, and privatizing and outsourcing. Claims that the effective…

Suggests that student affairs professionals must continue to encourage ethnic minority students to become widely involved in student governance activities. Notes that this involvement will help to foster an environment that promotes human growth and development; it will also aid the institution in retaining these students. (Author)

In the future, chief student affairs officers should assume a leadership role by making realistic strategic institutional advancement plans, discovering potential donors and involving them on campus, coordinating an information system, and providing staff development. (Author)

Choices about organizational design and leadership strategy must be made to create and implement an effective student affairs educational fundraising program. This chapter explains the educational fundraising process in detail, and a model institutional advancement program for student affairs is described. (Author)

Without program access to education, leadership and vocational opportunities will be denied to handicapped individuals. Faculty members must become aware and competent in instructing and guiding handicapped students. Few institutions have established roles for facilitators of faculty involvement with the handicapped. (Author/JAC)

Chief student affairs officers can employ specific strategies that will help them position themselves to respond to political and leadership opportunities and deal constructively with their political environments. This article explicitly identifies ideas and perspectives that will stimulate practitioners to think differently about their…

Reviews legislative mandates and demographic trends that address the issue of access for students with disabilities enrolling in higher education. Discusses the importance of the student affairs profession in assuming leadership for creating learning environments that are inclusive, diverse, and affirming, in order to change the experience of…

Health promotion on campuses has two audiences or targets: individuals and the community. Through strategies of leadership, consensus development, and community service, college and university communities cannot only change social norms, but more critically, found and nurture a flexible, gentle network of caring and connectedness that pulls people…

With the acceleration of international communication and political integration, it is becoming increasingly important for student affairs leaders to know about international trends and issues affecting higher education. Author provides an overview of the increasing internationalization of student services in higher education and examines why…

Management of student affairs is a complex and unpredictable task that requires thoughtful planning and sensitivity. Managers who set priorities in a planned way, act strategically to implement plans, and make adjustments based on changing conditions can make a difference. Managers must work collaboratively to achieve mutual purposes through…

Discusses the need for senior student affairs officers, who seek to encourage and maintain an involved campus community, to support a strong student government. Provides insight into the internal dynamics of student government. Examines stressors affecting student government leaders. Presents ethical implications of interacting with student…