An Assessment of Multicultural Competence

This study assessed multicultural experiences and competency levels of graduate students in college student personnel (CSP) preparation programs, student affairs staff serving as internship supervisors, and diversity educators. A total of 131 students, staff, and diversity educators from four campuses in two geographical regions within the United States completed several assessments regarding multicultural competence.Respondents in all three groups rated themselves highest for multicultural awareness and lowest on multicultural knowledge. Significant differences by group and by race were observed in respondents’ levels of multicultural competence: student affairs staff members scored significantly higher than did CSP students, and diversity educators scored the highest. Students of color scored significantly higher on this measure than did the White students and the staff members.

Entering the Magic Circle: Building Bridges Through A Religious Mission That Guides Professionalization

The purpose of this article is to articulate the means by which the professionalization process in our college student personnel program at a private, church-related institution is operationalized. Discussed are the religious mission, how it is translated into the program goal of professionalism, and what implications the process has for other institutions.

A Work Sample Approach to Hiring Student Personnel Administrators for Distance Education Programs

Student personnel professionals are beginning to have key roles and increased involvement in distance learning programs, by administering distance education systems and supporting distance student adjustment, learning, and development. This article presents a work sample exercise for use when interviewing and hiring college student personnel administrators for professional positions in distance learning programs.

A Developmental View of Academic Advising As Teaching

This classic article, upon which many of the subsequent articles reflect, originally appeared in January of 1972 in the Journal of College Student Personnel (volume 13,pp. 12–17) and is reprinted with both permission and deep appreciation. Crookston's article i as based on a paper he presented at a conference on academic advising at Temple Buell College in Denver in July 1970.