Facilitating career development through small‐group process

Abstract

During the next decade the delivery of career development services in higher education will be influenced by several existing and emerging trends. For example, it is predicted that the composition of the student population will be increasingly diversified. New populations of students will be attending institutions of higher education. Included in this new population of students will be increased numbers of minorities, women, handicapped, and others who have not previously considered a college education as a path toward a viable career alternative. A second trend is the broadeningof institutional efforts to retain students from entrance to graduation. Third, education is increasingly perceived as a lifelong task. T h e prospect of people entering or reentering college at some point in midlife is becoming more and more common. Finally, it appears that the period of fiscal austerity that has burdened higher education during the last half of the 1970s will persist through the next decade. N e w Dirertions for Student Senuces. 14. I981