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This faculty handbook was the result of efforts to redefine the role and mission of the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York Counseling Center and to delineate the most effective delivery of services to students. Part 1 sets forth the philosophy, vision, objectives, expected outcomes, and competencies students should develop by working with counselors. The counseling service works collaboratively with the Department of Student Development to offer academic, career, and personal counseling. Part 2 provides the governance structure for the counseling faculty. It describes the counseling service's relationship to the college; the functions and roles of the counseling service; issues of training; a code of ethics; confidentiality; and record keeping. Appendix 1 is the Core Counseling Functions Survey and Appendix 2 is Governance Structure Survey. (JDM)

Peer counseling is a method for improving educational and counseling effectiveness in which counselors work together to implement strategies through a systematic process of following group formation in supervision. It has the goal of improving counseling and educational activities and developing an atmosphere of collegiality and experimentation. Peer coaching can be used to bring about improvement of teaching when college counselors coach each other in the experimentation of newly acquired strategies. The first part of this document, Peer-Coaching in Group Supervision, is divided into two formats. Format A contains examples of sessions concerning classroom and work problems. Format B discusses problems that rise to the level of a psychiatric classification. It presents creative techniques for peer counseling in group supervision along with case illustrations. The second part of this document, the Summative (End-of-the-Year) Evaluation Counselor Growth Portfolio, contains a sample of a year-end evaluation of the teacher in the classroom; the counselor in the classroom; students' evaluation of counselors in and out of the classroom; and counselors' professional growth and development. Appendixes include a pre-observation worksheet, a post-observation worksheet, and an evaluation of classroom observer questionnaire (JDM)

This guide contains step-by-step information needed in the hiring of a college counselor. It begins with information on how to screen applications for the job. Next is a checklist on preparing for the interview, followed by a number of warning signals the interviewer should watch for. Examples are included of specific questions to ask at the interview. Issues that relate to the candidate's creativity, initiative, and problem solving are also addressed. It explains how to address questions involving professional growth and development, and ways to determine how a candidate may contribute to the department. There is a post-interview reflections summary and a finalist summary to help make candidate selection easy. Web sites are listed for additional interview questions. (JDM)