February 15, 2007

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Study Shows First-Year Students Are Receptive to Assistance: Five Ways to Align Advising with Student Needs
By Catherine Stover
More than 97,000 incoming freshmen at 292 institutions (public, private, two- and four-year) participated in a new study on “Attitudes and Motivations of First-Year Students” by Noel-Levitz, a higher education consulting firm.

From the Editor
As the new editor of Student Affairs Leader, it’s my pleasure to introduce you to our new editorial team and to tell you about our priorities for topics for 2007.

On-Campus Report Capsules
The University of Michigan's fifth annual conference on “Depression on College Campuses: New Challenges, New Approaches”; Brain research at the University of Pittsburgh; Birmingham-Southern College's four-year graduation guarantee program; more.

Resource Attraction at Seven Campuses
By Mary Lou Santovec
What are some creative and innovative ways to acquire extra resources? Seven different campuses explain how they received financial, material or human resource assistance.

What is the Foundation of Student Affairs?
By Arthur Sandeen, Ph.D. and Margaret Barr, Ph.D.
What is student affairs? Is it counseling? Student development? Organizational theory? Administration? Management? Our profession has had its share of debates on what the emphasis should be in the work of student affairs. As participants in this debate for four decades, we believe that there are many roles to fill in student affairs and many ways to fulfill those roles.