February 15, 2008

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Extending Your Counseling Center’s Resources: Adding an Online Q&A Page
By Brian Van Brunt
Today’s college students come to school with an extensive array of worries, questions, and difficulties. Counseling centers, faculty advisers, residence assistants, and student affairs personnel are often on the front line, addressing these concerns with students in direct conversations.

News Capsules
At press time, we are just a week away from Super Tuesday, and it is fair to say that we are captivated by the primaries, and so we are publishing two articles (pages 5 and 6) about the political engagement of college students. One of the points both of these articles make is that students prefer to get their information and conversations from friends and family, which is why social networking sites (such as Facebook) are part of the political scene.

Millennials and Politics: A New Mix
By Brian A. Vander Schee
College students today are getting involved politically, but not in the way ascribed to previous generations. In a 1993 publication, College Students Talk Politics, the Charles F. Kettering Foundation reported that students considered politics irrelevant to their lives and saw little purpose in getting involved.

Increasing Student Voter Turnout
By Matthew Segal
As the presidential primary season continues, one thing is unequivocally clear: 2008 is the year of the young voter. Take these numbers for instance…

Q&A: How Can Student Affairs Work More Closely with Faculty?
Q: When I moved to a new campus this year, one of the biggest surprises for me was the lack of cooperation between academic affairs and student affairs. The collaboration at my previous institution was so prevalent that I took it for granted, and now I don’t know where to begin. Do you have any suggestions?