STUDENT PERSONNEL WORK And Personality Development

s AN INTRODUCTION this paper will A review the current orientation of student personnel work. When it reached its full flowering in the thirties, student personnel work in higher education was concerned about individual differences. T o a considerable extent “the student personnel point of view” represented a recognition that educational procedures and educational goals must take cognizance of and adapt to the heterogeneity of our school and college-going population. Our national ethic of stimulating every member of our society to the fullest development of his resources has insured that student populations will include people with widely varying ability patterns and purposes. Student p t ~ r s o t ~ r i ~ ~ l work was oririitrd to maldiiig these varied students to adapt to the demands of the educational process and to facilitate the adaptation of the educational process to this variability in students. However, student personnel work has passed from the age of individual differences to the age of personality development. The recent world upheavals and the correlated awesome advance in our capacities to control the material world has focused attention upon educational goals beyond those of the acquisition of knowledge and skills. Great emphasis is placed upon the goals of emotional maturity and integration, the degree to which our young men and women will be capable of gaining their satisfactions within a framework which permits satisfaction to their fellow men. Thus, we can say that where student personnel