In order to enhance the therapeutic counseling potential of campus pastors, a brief orientation and training program in counseling was designed utilizing a client-centered orientation. The focus of training was on selected recorded interviews between clients and therapists and the reaction of the campus pastors to the interviews. (Author)

A heart-warming story that reminds all Spanish Colonials of their own "abuelitas". (Author)

Practical behaviors are suggested, which are part of an effective style for a building principal. Emphasis is on leadership, time management, and positive communication with students and staff. (SJL)

A program based on regular home visits by older adults to families of neglected or developmentally delayed children provides a model for parenting in the home, helps the children and gives the older adult visitors a satisfying role to play in society. (SE)

Summarizes the views presented at a public inquiry conducted by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. (SB)

How schools can be restructured to make them sources of ethical experiences is discussed in this article; responses to the author's point of view by other writers are printed at the end of the article. (JD)

Considers the fears about a unisex world, in particular the concern that children in such a society would grow up confused about what it means to be a man or a woman. Proposes that androgyny founded on the idea of firm gender identity provides a model and direction for change more viable than that connoted by the term "unisex".…

The basic question, "What is normal?" is being asked again to account for some of the changes that have come about in the maturation and development of today's youth. (MM)

It is argued that through the collegiate experience, the future college professor is socialized to a conventional teaching role, which is grounded in a traditional instructional model, and that efforts to increase instructional productivity must be cognizant of and consistent with this role and model. Empirical data support the hypothesis.…

This project was inspired by a belief that too little attention is paid by the academic structure to its responsibility within the school experience of developing "caring" individuals. The project's goal was to test the idea that "Caring Quality" could be "taught". (Author/RK)

In addition to providing a larger number of investigators who can solve current problems, developing and supporting a clinical scientist training program can provide better clinicians. Specific academic and technological courses are cited along with mentor roles and time factors involved in training clinical scientists. (Author/LBH)

The authors discuss the growing number of minority students in vocational agriculture programs. They argue for increased minority teachers to serve as role models for these students. In addition, they urge agricultural educators at all levels to encourage minority student involvement, participation, and career interest in agriculture. (CH)

Describes the "Replicating Jobs in Business and Industry for Persons with Disabilities" project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project identifies successful role models for disabled youth and employers who have made accommodations for disabled employees. Includes guidelines for advocates of the disabled. (CH)

This article examines the influence of mentors and role models, beginning at the period of occupational choice and continuing through preparatory and practice entry phases. The author reports on an attrition study of 298 practical nursing students at an Indiana postsecondary institution that examined the influence of others in completing or not…