CHAPTER III Higher Education Programs

O N C E AGAIN it must be reported that research on student personnel pro-grams in higher education in the past three years has been characterized by paucity. The little that has been done will be reported under the follow-ing headings: four-year colleges, extended education, and junior colleges. What might be described as sage literature—thoughtful writing by those of broad and long experience—will be briefly summarized. In the October 1960 issue of the REVIEW, Feder and Siller concluded that there is little evidence concerning the validity of certain stereotypes of organization and function that have been adopted in student personnel practices. They recommended more research involving use of controlled experimentation as well as study of similar institutions with some varia-tion of program in order that the assumptions under which present pro-grams are operating might be validated. Although the tendency to lean heavily on surveys of practices may reveal normative practice and, in effect, establish least common denominators, it may stifle organizationa