Students are diverse; they desire involvement in governance, need guidance, react strongly to the impersonal, and bureaucratic life of the university, and want relevance and meaning in the learning program. Students also desire and need some personal relationships with the faculty and they need a faculty that cares. Students can be most…

Argues that increased collective parental rights in the struggle to run schools can still lead to many parents feeling even more excluded. (Editor/RK)

The role of the middle schools in promoting adolescent development and the areas in which the curriculum can help children make the difficult and critical transition from childhood to adolescence are discussed. (MSE)

David Kolb's experiential learning theory involves a framework useful in designing courses that meet needs of diverse learners. Course designs providing systematic activities in concrete experience, reflective observations, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation will be sensitive to students' learning styles while challenging…

Oral communication competence is essential for career success and for effective participation as a citizen in a democratic society. Unfortunately, many students do not have oral communication competence, and even more unfortunately the success of graduating students rests heavily on their communication skills. Oral communication competence,…

This article suggests that students have experienced impersonality" because of their failure to discover the unique purpose of the university, and that the superficial impersonality" that does exist is a guarantee of equality of treatment. (Author)

The role of the mentor is traced in the literature of adult developmental psychology. Four primary elements of that role are: pointing the way at a developmental crossroad, offering material and/or emotional support, challenging, and letting go at the appropriate time. (MSE)

A return to a more structured undergraduate education with a return to distribution requirements would be disastrous for higher education, says the author. What is needed is an understanding of the students' world, their needs, and their future needs. Old ideas should be discarded, fundamentals examined, and creativity accepted. (Editor/LBH)

A Discrepancy Evaluation Model is used to assess how effectively the career development needs of University of Virginia students are being met. (Author)

The more worldly-wise, or the "more literate" in its broader sense, student may present counsellors with new problems because of the very worldliness of his knowledge and experience. (Author)

Examines five counseling cases from the integrated perspectives of a brief counseling approach and a theory of human needs. Cases draw on the work of three counselors and their attempts to help high school students. Proposes that such integration provides increased options for helping clients solve specific problems. (RJM)

A psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School reflects on his education, revealing the importance of individual teachers in his life. Beginning with his first-grade teacher, he narrates the impact of those who encouraged him to surpass himself. Emphasizes the importance of the teacher-student connection on campus. (RJM)

Guidelines are presented to assist in establishing programs to meet the needs of students who are both gifted and learning disabled. The guidelines suggest focusing attention on development of the giftedness, offering a nurturing environment that values individual differences, teaching compensation strategies, and developing awareness of…