CPSY 400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: American College Personnel Association, Morrill Land-Grant Acts, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Counseling Psychology
• Course: CPSY 400
• Professor: Yuye Zhang

Document Summary

Emerging adulthood - phase of life for individuals between ages 18 and 29. Tasks include learning to live independently and successfully through experimenting with different lifestyles and careers and preparing for adulthood. Student affairs - includes student-life services, student development, and counseling. American college personnel association (acpa) - officially organized in 1924. German university tradition - emphasis on research and scholarship. English residential liberal arts tradition - emphasis on education of the whole person. U. s. paradigm - emphasis on vocational or professional preparation. The beginning of student-life services and college counseling. Change and growth in american higher education include: Morrill land grant act of 1862 - influenced establishment of state universities. Growth of pluralistic opinions and populations among college students . Change of faculty role - no longer in loco parentis (in place of parents) Lack of faculty interest in daily implementation of institutional governance.