Describes the development of the College and University Community Inventory (CUCI), an instrument designed to measure the extent of community within colleges and universities for students. Article discusses the methods for establishing the instrument's validity and ascertaining reliability indices. (Contains 18 references.) (Author/GCP)

Presents an analysis of an international teaching assistants (IGTAs) workshop. Analysis and evaluation of the workshop used five social difficulty variables: language, age, academic classification, cultural similarity, and friendship communication network. Findings reveal that the workshop was effective in providing a good foundation toward…

Compares responses on self-report inventories of coping resources and self-esteem between samples of students attending a small private college and a large state university. Differences were found in physical and spiritual/philosophical types of coping resources as well as social self-esteem. Includes suggestions for further research in this area…

Study seeks to determine the effects of an Illinois mandate on publicly supported universities forming and promoting community service corps. Interviews were conducted with personnel at all 10 four-year public universities in Illinois. Data were gathered about the history of the programs; definitions, roles of students, faculty, student…

Reports on a survey on career development of female student affairs professionals and graduate paraprofessionals from a Southeastern land-grant institution. Participants of the study were found to have had specific purposes for joining student affairs, and face different challenges in the field. Also reports their personal strengths, aspirations…

Traces the development and history of the Faculty Associates Program, an experimental program at Duke University designed to improve the quality of co-curricular student life through the direct involvement of faculty members in the residential life experience of undergraduates. Proposes that the models and strategies that the program has employed…

Argues that student affairs faculty and administrators need to collaborate in educating graduate students in their institutional preparation programs and that this collaboration is necessary to ensure a positive, well-rounded experience for graduate students. Discusses student affairs preparation programs in which faculty and administrators work…

Article challenges the division between student and academic affairs and encourages a view of learning and reason in a more holistic and integrated fashion. Outlines the historical factors for the separation of student and academic affairs and offers the programs instituted at Bellarmine College as examples of effective collaboration between…

Discusses the development of Carson-Newman College's Laboratory for Learning, a residential college model in which a team of faculty, students and staff implemented programming designed to focus students' attention on issues related to life and academics. Recounts how students that engaged in these co-curricular activities have received the…

Study seeks to identify student-learning goals (academic and developmental) that teaching faculty and student affairs practitioners both view as important in the undergraduate experience. Forty goals were ranked in importance and identified as to whether faculty or student affairs professionals were responsible for assisting students to achieve…

Discusses a model using intentionally structured groups in freshmen seminars. Proposes that collaborative efforts among academic departments and student affairs practitioners can enhance students' academic and intellectual development. Presents a rationale for how collaboration offers special opportunities for promoting positive educational and…

Boundary spanning is a concept developed and used in organizational theory but rarely applied to education. A survey of activities that spanned institutional boundaries was adapted to student affairs and used to assess the efforts of 42 senior student affairs officers. All participants indicated that they engaged in the eight boundary spanning…

As the demand for qualified higher education faculty increases, practicing administrators with the appropriate education and experience will be likely recruits. Article provides an overview of the realistic considerations and preparations administrators should take when contemplating making the move from an administrative to faculty position.…

Presents empirical and theoretical evidence to support the relationship between Perry's scheme of intellectual and ethical development and Marcia's identity status model. Discusses a conceptual model to depict the relationships between the two and implications for research and practice. (Contains 31 references.) (Author/GCP)

Highlights different types of student involvement, summarizes key findings, and identifies significant gaps in research regarding how student involvement on college campuses impacts student development and learning. Suggests that student affairs administrators need to continue the exploration on the importance of college student involvement.…