How Students Negotiated Power and Authority Issues in a Residential Community Standards Program: Implications for Creating Empowering Educational Settings.

Engstrom, Cathy McHugh; Hallock, Hilton; Riemer, Stacey

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ERIC Number: EJ648473

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2002

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How Students Negotiated Power and Authority Issues in a Residential Community Standards Program: Implications for Creating Empowering Educational Settings.

Engstrom, Cathy McHugh; Hallock, Hilton; Riemer, Stacey

NASPA Journal, v39 n3 p181-203 Spr 2002

Describes how undergraduate students (N=38), participating in a residential pilot community standards program, grappled with conflicting constructs of power and authority, and learned how to distribute power and authority in new ways. Proposes two interrelated conditions for promoting shared authority among students and student affairs professionals. (JDM)

Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Models, Participative Decision Making, Pilot Projects, Power Structure, Student Participation, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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