Oregon daily emerald., September 21, 1972, Section III, Page 8 AND 9, Image 129

I I
Solving
student
problems
Student services
When you’ve got some kind of
problem—academic, financial,
employment, anything—you
know that there are many places
to go for help.
But chances are, especially if
you’re a new student, you don’t
even know where to start looking.
The Office of Student Services,
207 Emerald Hall, 686-3211, is
operating just for that purpose.
Its function is to advise and
counsel students about anything
other than what their major will
be.
Shirley Wilson, associate dean
of students, who works in the
office, has said, ‘‘We don’t do all
the stuff around here in this of
fice, but if we don’t do it, we’ll let
students know where to go.”
She has said that a student with
any problem should come to the
office “and explain their
situation.” Students should not
ask just one question and leave
the office, because usually the
problem isn’t solved by one
answer, she said.
“If we have an idea of what the
student’s full situation is, we can
help him out much more than if
he asks merely one question.
We’re sort of a clearinghouse for
information.”
The main bulk of work the
office does is (1) working with
students who have academic
credit problems, (2) explaining
the University’s grading system
to students, and (3) arranging
summer and fall orientation
sessions for new students.
Academic advising
Students can get help in
deciding their majors by con
tacting the Office of Academic
Advising, 140 Hendricks, 686-3045.
Beverly Fagot, director of the
office, has said the main function
of the office is to help students
decide their majors. “It’s very
rare for a student to come into the
University and pick a major and
keep it through all four years. So
we help and advise people on
their majors.”
Fagot said the office is usually
jammed with students during
registration periods. “But we
can’t really talk with anyone
during registration for a long
period of time,” she said,
because of the usual crowding.
The office’s staff has more time
to help students later on in the
term, she has said.
Counseling Center
The University’s Counseling
Center, located in 150 Susan
Campbell, is prepared to offer
unique and traditional services to
students.
Individual counseling is the
basic program at the center.
David Brinks, center director,
has said most people who seek
individual counseling “feel a lot '
better just knowing there is some
place to go and think out loud
with someone. They need to talk
to someone, and they can do that
here.”
Various unique services of
fered are career development
counseling, human relations,
encounter and therapy groups, a
reading and study skills
laboratory and drug counseling.
Career development coun
seling involves helping students
who have “let their cir
cumstances point their direc
tion,” Brinks has said.
Providing
students
career
placement
All students interested in
detailed career planning, learn
ing skills or career counseling
can now receive aid from one
office.
Titled Career Planning and
Placement Service, the new
office is actually a merger of two
formerly distinct offices, the
University Placement Service
and the Counseling Center.
According to David Brinks,
director of the new office, Career
Planning and Placement is an
attempt to synthesize a variety of
University resources.
Three sections of the office
work together to provide each
other with information and skills.
“Now we can tap specialists of
reading resources, of the career
planning staff, and the career
counseling psychologist to
consult and collaborate,” says
Brinks.
Brinks feels that perhaps a
more accurate name for the
office would be Career
Development. “The recon
structed approach we’ve taken
concentrates on the whole
development of one’s life,” he
says.
Besides offering vocational
aptitude and interest testing,
occupational information and
exploration and experience in
areas of interest, Career Plan
ning and Placement tries to get
the student to take an inward look
at himself. “We try to raise as
many questions as we can,” says
Brinks. Personal exploration
includes studying one's values.
preferences for rural or city
lifestyles, mobility and con
sideration for a spouse or
dependents.
The office also tries to provide
experience that can be used in the
future. Brinks says. “Resume
preparation is critical,” he
emphasizes. “A person’s papers
precede the person in almost
every instance. They speak for
him before he gets a chance to
speak for himself.”
Brinks urges a study of the job
market before making a career
decision. “When people first
come to a college, they often have
a set idea of what they want to
do,” he says. “By the time they
get out, they find the job market
has changed considerably.”
“We encourage rational life
planning—exerting some in
fluence over one’s life—rather
than just accepting cir
cumstances.”
Brinks hopes to eventually see
a self-operated counseling
system where a student “can tap
resources without ever talking to
a person.” Such a system would
make use of printed materials,
resource lists and a computer
terminal for exploring oc
cupational information. “At any
point one can step off the self
system,” he adds.
Career Planning and
Placement Service is located in
Susan Campbell Hall. It is open 8
a.m. until noon and 1-5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
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