A series of handbooks on particular student personnel functions should be written and published. The survey proposed above would provide a panoramic picture of the entire field. The handbooks that we are suggesting would furnish detailed information about specific personnel functions. Data for these handbooks would come from two general sources: first, from the information gathered by the surveyor on the detailed operation of specific personnel functions in the institutions he visits and, second, from the literature. Each handbook would stress the best practices developed in the handling of each function. The work of writing each handbook should be under the direction of a committee of three. This committee should include an active worker in the special field under discussion and a representative of the appropriate national personnel organization.





Educators turned their attention to their professional roles in the late forties as hostilities ceased and educational institutions were called upon to help the armed forces veterans return to civilian life. At the same time, the traditional aged high school graduates were seeking college admission in greater numbers than ever before.



From this changed setting, attention was again given to the need to identify the parameters of the student personnel field. One of the first authors to continue the forex blog examination of the field was E. H. Hopkins in his article, "The Essentials of a Student Personnel Program." Hopkins, one of the early Vice Presidents for Student Affairs, included the list of services to be provided as well as basic and fundamental assumptions. He acknowledged the importance of the American Council on Education pamphlet published in 1937. His greatest concerns in this new post World War II era were getting more faculty participation in implementing the student personnel point of view, and secondly, obtaining more research-supported facts about students and the programs that serve them.



In 1949 Williamson edited the book Trends in Student Personnel Work. He invited Kate Mueller to address problems in counseling women. She argues that since the student personnel point of view calls for development of students as a whole, it should mean ma cross both men and women. She examines life patterns, differing social pressures, frustrations of women, and even considers the question of a special curriculum for women. Her insights and conclusions provide a background for the issues that surround sexual equality among staff, students and faculty on campus today.

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