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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Staffing the Student Affairs Division: Theory, Practices, and Issues.
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Carpenter, D. Stanley; Torres, Vasti; Winston, Roger B., Jr. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2001
The staffing process in student affairs is one of the most important leadership and management functions that administrators are called upon to perform. How well the interrelated functions of recruitment, selection, orientation, supervision, performance appraisal, professional development, and departure by staff are handled determines the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Higher Education, Personnel Management, Program Effectiveness
Staffing in Student Affairs: A Survey of Practices.
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Winston, Roger B., Jr.; Torres, Vasti; Carpenter, D. Stanley; McIntire, David D.; Peterson, Brent – College Student Affairs Journal, 2001
A geographically stratified sample of 263 chief student affairs administrators responded to questions related to their division's professional staff recruiting and selection processes, professional development and activities, and performance appraisal procedures. This produced a descriptive overview of national staffing practice sin student…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Personnel Evaluation, Personnel Management, Professional Development
A Short Measure of Students' Autonomy Development: The Georgia Autonomy Scale.
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Winston, Robert B., Jr.; Phelps, Rosemary E.; Mazzeo, Stephanie; Torres, Vasti – College Student Affairs Journal, 1997
Describes the development of the Georgia Autonomy Scales, an instrument used by student affairs professionals to assess the level of autonomy development of students. Estimates of the instrument's reliability and validity were judged sufficiently high to permit use with groups of students. (MKA)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Higher Education, Personal Autonomy
Hispanic American Acculturation and Ethnic Identity: A Bi-Cultural Model.
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Torres, Vasti; Phelps, Rosemary E. – College Student Affairs Journal, 1997
Attempts to validate a model of bicultural orientation for Hispanic college students. Results support a bicultural orientation model, using acculturation and ethnic identity as constructs. Implications for student affair professions are discussed, along with suggestions for future research. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Biculturalism, College Students, Ethnicity