EVALUATION OF AN EXPERIMENTAL ADVISING SYSTEM: THE STUDENT DEVELOPMENT MENTORING-TRANSCRIPT PROJECT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN

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Educators have agreed that educating the "total student" should be a goal of colleges and universities. The problem has been that colleges and universities have not established a systematic, planned method to deal with the challenge of educating the "total student." A recently introduced approach to total student development is the mentoring-transcript system. The purpose of this study was to describe and evaluate the Student Development Mentoring-Transcript Project as it was developed and implemented at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1979-80. A group of student affairs staff and faculty designed a project in which staff and faculty trained to become mentors to guide and encourage students as they assessed and planned for their development in six different growth areas. Activities included assessment of a student's development in each of the areas, goal-setting, planning of developmental learning experiences, participation in developmental activities, progress evaluation, reasse

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