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Your campus already has one of the most important resources for creating an optimal environment-its students. Admissions offices expend many resources recruiting top notch students, and retention offices look for ways to keep them. One important way to attract and retain students is by providing opportunities for the students to become engaged in meaningful work. Students as a work force have been important to most campuses for many years, historically working as typists, filers, gophers, painters, etc. However, given the opportunity, students would choose a setting that would foster more growth through diverse duties and increased responsibility. Winston and Ender (1988) found &dquo;statistically significant differences among programs using paraprofessionals because (a) they are less costly staff, (b) they are more effective than professionals, (c) the program aids in the paraprofessional's personal development, and (d) the program enables the college to provide more services to more stu-dents&dquo; (p. 467). These results, reporting the effectiveness of a paraprofessional program, are supported by many authors (Arnold et al.

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