A study of 236 undecided students and 263 pre-engineering majors examined differences in ego-identity development, the relationship between ego-identity status and career and major decidedness, and the relationship between advising needs and ego-identity status. Results show status and advising needs vary with individuals, not always directly…

Drawing from a literature review, interviews, and a survey of practitioners' perceptions, this article examines changing conditions within community colleges and their likely effects on student development programs and services. Advances a new model for student development educators based on principles of collaborative goal setting. (DMM)

Discusses power and presence in relation to the teacher's role in the classroom. Successful English as a second language or citizenship teachers can (1) enable learners to discover and act out of their own power and (2) be present as learners struggle to identify their new sense of self within their new world. (Author/CB)

New federal regulations that require all regional accrediting agencies to "place greater emphasis on the consistent assessment of student achievement as a principle element in the accreditation process" will have a large impact on student development professionals. Measuring student development outcomes is discussed. (MLW)

A survey of first-year medical students on their first day and after a year measured discrepancies between expectations and experiences. At the end of the second year, students reminded of their unfulfilled expectations expressed no affect on class morale or emotional climate. Most were indifferent to their first-year responses. (Author/MSE)

This article outlines a developmental/psychosocial framework for graduate student advising based on existing conceptions of graduate student advisement, knowledge about educational mentoring, and human development theory. The model identifies graduate advisors with six characteristics essential to creating a developmental context for advisement…

A young college French professor has won praise for her book about the experience of learning the language. She explores her childhood, education, and socialization as a young adult to tell why and how French became important to her. (MSE)

This article describes the process of developing a conceptual model of student factors that lead to self-determination of students with disabilities and then describes such a model. The model has five components: (1) know yourself; (2) value yourself; (3) plan; (4) act; and (5) experience outcomes and learn. (DB)

Summarizes the history of library internships in cataloging. Reviews a survey of 112 academic practitioners and educators regarding the value of cataloging internships in the masters of library science program. Findings indicate that internships are needed to educate library students. Sample cataloging internship programs are appended. (JMV)

This discussion of creativity in its educational context first considers the role of the creative product, process, personality, and environment. A proposal for teaching student teachers to teach more creatively is offered. The approach stresses development of originality, fluency, abstraction, elaboration, and openness. (DB)

Activities designed to acquaint students with the library media center are listed: find examples of fractions; estimate the total number of books; find information on a topic; pick favorite leads; locate the most and least popular books; find animal heroes; discover answers to questions; redesign the library; select a book for a secret partner;…

A study investigated the extent to which 210 college students' learning orientations were shaped independently and jointly by their academic and nonacademic experiences. Findings indicated that the two kinds of experience each made statistically significant and unique contributions to gains in intellectual orientation after controlling for…

This interview with Oleg Davydenko, a geneticist in Belarus who also runs a club for adolescents interested in genetics, addresses his work, the origins of the club, self-selection by students, characteristics of the best student members, the club's financial support, his own development as a youth, and the role of contests like the Olympiads. (DB)

Recently, higher education policy and practice has become dominated by materialism, individualism, and competitiveness, at the expense of attention to the affective aspect of student development and, in a broader perspective, to the emotional and spiritual divisions that threaten humanity. Higher education can and should be more constructive. (MSE)

Many ethnic-majority college students have strong emotional reactions to ethnic-American literature and the conflict of social myth with social reality. Teachers can guide students through the seven stages leading from disillusionment to understanding (shock, denial, anger, rejection, examination, understanding, and acceptance) in part by…