Reports on a technique that combines Adlerian therapy with adventure therapy to provide a therapeutic milieu that blends play with self-growth. Results, based on six brief interventions conducted with 42 fifth-grade students, indicate that both statistical significance and therapeutic efficacy were achieved by these interventions. (RJM)

Presents an interview with and biographical analysis of Harold Cheatham, an African American scholar and pioneer in the field of counseling and student development. Explores Cheatham's childhood, his college years, his roles as mentor and teacher, and his historic appointment in university administration. (RJM)

Investigated aspects of student development facilitated by focusing on community-building in a peer counseling team of six female and three male college students. Results show that by experiencing community with their peers, students reported enhanced ability and a desire to create community within and outside the university. (Author/RJM)

Describes the author's experience at a community college over the past 30 years. Talks about how community colleges and their students have changed. (TB)

Reexamines data from Carol Berkenkotter, Thomas Huckin and John Ackerman's landmark study of the first year in the life of graduate student Nate. Looks at Nate's work at significant junctures in his professional life. Suggests some of the limitations faced by sociolinguistic accounts of student experiences. (TB)

States that electronic publishing is transforming journalism practice in the traditional divisions of newspaper and broadcast ever more quickly, and that new techniques within the field are emerging at a speed that makes assimilation difficult. Describes how traditional news media are establishing a presence on the Internet with 24-hour Internet…

A meta-ethical questionnaire based on Perry's model was devised and implemented together with an ethics education program at the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Results indicated that students' meta-ethical development is a natural process in young adulthood, though male students progressed later than female…

Describes the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative currently underway in the Tyrone Area School District. The goals of the SS/HS Initiative involve reducing risk and building competencies for students and their families through integration of law enforcement and mental health into school-based prevention efforts. Program evaluation is…

In Salinas, California, a Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS)-funded program is helping children and their families grapple with issues pertaining to violence, substance abuse, mental health, and academic success. In just two years, the program has helped educators and service providers deter school crime, provide on-campus therapy to troubled…

Assessed the impact of a redesigned campus preservice teacher education program on student teacher development. Student teacher interviews indicated that while student teachers made several recommendations for improving the program, it had a major impact on their development as teachers, helping them acquire broad teaching goals, broad pedagogical…

States that recent research suggests that an education in theater beginning in kindergarten and continuing throughout the educational process can teach students valuable skills that will serve them well in the professional world, including problem solving, team work, and decision making. Discusses the program at Jefferson High School and its…

Argues for desirability of high ethical standards on college and university campuses. Concentrates on academic integrity policies and procedures. Claims that students learn from institutions' responses to academic dishonesty and from schools' expectations about students' response to the dishonesty of others, thus teaching courage, compassion,…

Presents a model of conflict resolution as an alternative, or in addition, to traditional disciplinary systems. Method relies on mediation and employs a "win/win" philosophy which allows and encourages students to peacefully resolve their own disputes. Believes that the program bolsters self-esteem and helps students resolve differences.…

Explores ways that higher education can reintegrate cognitive learning and personal development. Discusses a developmental conceptualization of learning and outlines strategies that help students connect learning in college to their lives. Provides both curricular and cocurricular examples and stresses the importance of a shared vision of…

Describes how one scholastic journalism program operates and how for its advisor teaching comes first, followed by advocacy, and a free exchange of ideas through the student newspaper. States that he sees his advisor role as that of a facilitator. (PA)