Publisher's Synopsis
Representing the most major effort to date to examine the studentaffairs research office, this issue of New Directions forStudent Services shows how this research can enhance andsupport the work of the student services staff and the campusat-large. The contributors describe how student affairs and facultycan collaborate to create an agenda for student-related research;review technological aids for collecting and analyzing data; anddiscuss how student affairs researchers can make their role morevital to the campus by expanding into policy analysis andinformation brokering. The volume also reports the results of anational study of thirty-five centralized student affairs researchoffices, including information on the types of research they haveconducted and how institutional reorganization has impacted theirresearch missions.
This is the 85th issue of the quarterly journal NewDirections for Student Services.
