DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Washington, D.C.), July 6-August 14; 6 hours; Dr. Mitchell Dreese, Director.

The institute is designed primarily for public school counselors and public school teacher-counselors who are already engaged in counseling duties but who are not qualified to meet certification requirements in their states or minimum requirements of local districts. Counselors already fully certificated but in need of special additional training in the guidance of gifted children will also be considered for admission. Emphasis in the program of instruction will be upon ways and means of identifying academically talented students and encouraging them to continue their education so as to be best qualified to make their maximum contribution to national defense and to the general economy.

FLORIDA

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (Gainesville, Florida), June 15August 8; 6 to 9 hours; Dr. Ted Landsman, Director.

The institute will emphasize training in two areas basic to guidance work, testing and counseling, for teachers and counselors who are seeking to complete programs leading to guidance certification.

GEORGIA

ATLANTA UNIVERSITY (Atlanta, Georgia), June 8-July 17; 6 semester hours; Dr. Paul I. Clifford, Director.

The institute will be primarily concerned with improving the competencies of secondary school counselors in identifying able secondary school students from culturally impoverished backgrounds and in motivating such students to prepare adequately for college admission. Acquisition of knowledge and cultivation of skills related to the primary purpose will constitute other foci of the institute.

ILLINOIS

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY (Chicago, Illinois), June 29-August 8; 6 semester hours; Dr. Robert C. Nicolay, Director.

The institute will emphasize supervised practicum experience in the identification and counseling of able secondary school students. Counselors and guidance workers now in public and private secondary schools will be enrolled. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois), June 22August 1; 9 quarter hours; Dr. Frank S. Endicott, Director.

The 100 institute participants will be counselors in 100 secondary schools which are cooperating in a special project on the guidance and motivation of superior and talented students, under the sponsorship of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The schools are located in the 19-State area served by the North Central Association. Major emphasis will be on problems relating to the counseling and guidance of high school students who have not as yet developed appropriate educational and vocational plans.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois), June 15-August 8; 8 semester hours; Dr. Fred C. Proff, Director.

The primary aim of the institute is to improve the qualifications of those engaged in guidance and counseling and those who are preparing to enter this specialized field. Particular emphasis will be given to the identification, guidance, and education of youth with outstanding and unique abilities and aptitudes. Attention will be focused on the selection, use, and interpretation of tests. Counseling activities encompassing testing will receive consideration. A survey of available testing instruments will be conducted, in addition to discussing their application in helping gifted youth define challenging educational and vocational goals. Consideration will be given to scholarship sources. The issues involved in enlisting assistance of colleagues in identifying gifted and talented youth and in initiating inservice education programs in guidance techniques for the staff of their schools will also be explored.

INDIANA

PURDUE UNIVERSITY (Lafayette, Indiana), June 8-July 31; 9 semester hours; Dr. Lee E. Isaacson, Director.

The institute will focus on the specialized problems of identification and counseling of intellectually able high school students. The program will include selection devices, counseling techniques, college programs, and admission requirements, as well as personality and social factors which handicap able students. Additional activities include trips to colleges, to places employing college trained specialists, and to high school guidance facilities.

IOWA

STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA (Iowa City, Iowa), June 17August 12; 8 semester hours; Dr. Kenneth B. Hoyt, Director.

The institute will emphasize helping partially trained counselors to develop competencies in student appraisal procedures and use of referral sources. Special help will be given in applying institute learnings to specific school situations.

KANSAS

KANSAS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE (Pittsburg, Kansas), June 8-July 17; 6 hours; Dr. Emory G. Kennedy, Director.

The purpose of the institute is to improve the competency of counselors in the identification and motivation of talented youth. Instruction will emphasize supervised practicum and the work of the counselor with talented youth. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas), June 4-August 1; 8 hours; Dr. E. Gordon Collister, Director.

The program offers advanced training for persons employed as full-time counselors in secondary schools in the use of interests and measured abilities in differential prediction of success. The institute will offer supervised practice with, and case studies of, high school students to aid counselors in implementing plans for college.

KENTUCKY

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY (Lexington, Kentucky), June 8July 31; 6 semester hours; Dr. Marion R. Trabue, Director.

The institute will assist counseling and guidance personnel in identifying the abilities of high school students and in planning an adequate program for them The institute will be open to graduate students at the masters level and above.

LOUISIANA

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), June 4-July 29; 6 semester hours; Dr. Russell E. Helmick, Director.

The institute is designed to speed up preparation of counselors for the area, and is geared to the objective of, and specific emphasis upon, improving professional competency of counselors to help identify pupil potential in relationship to national needs. The program will give practical experience in the selection, use, and interpretation of objective tools of guidance to participants of the institute.

MARYLAND

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, Maryland), June 22-July 31; 6 semester hours; Dr. Richard H. Byrne, Director.

The program of the institute will provide certified school counselors with supervised practicum experience in the identification and counseling of able youth.

MASSACHUSETTS

BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts), July 13-August 21; 9 semester hours; Dr. Dugald S. Arbuckle, Director.

The institute has as its primary purpose the improvement of the professional qualifications of individuals involved, or planning to become involved, in guidance and counseling in secondary schools. The program will include lectures and a variety of practicum experiences.

MICHIGAN

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan), August 3-September 4; 9 term hours; Dr. Walter F. Johnson, Director. The emphasis of the institute will be upon providing greater competencies in identifying outstanding aptitudes and abilities in students; more effective use of tests and occupational and educational information; and improved counseling and interviewing techniques.

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (Detroit, Michigan), June 22August 14; 8 semester hours; Dr. William Evraiff, Director.

The institute will provide intensive work for untrained personnel in developing techniques for the identification and appraisal of individual differences, appropriate use of testing instruments and career information, implementing case material through the counseling process, and improving counselor-teacher relationships in order to identify able students and provide richer curricular experiences.

MINNESOTA

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota), June 15-July 18; 9 quarter hours; Dr. Willis E. Dugan, Director.

The institute will focus on identification of talent and the role of the counselor in improving the educational and vocational planning of superior students.

MISSOURI

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (Columbia, Missouri), June 15August 7; 8 hours; Dr. John L. Ferguson, Director.

The institute program will be composed of advanced seminars and courses relating to special problems in the testing, counseling, and guidance of talented youth. Emphasis will be placed upon increasing the effectiveness of counseling with the high ability student and acquainting counselors with special and unique problems which talented youth may encounter in planning for and in securing higher education.

MONTANA

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY (Missoula, Montana), June 22August 14; 12 quarter hours; Dr. Robert E. Gorman, Director.

The institute is planned to provide advanced professional training in guidance practices and techniques for teachers charged with guidance responsibilities in public high schools. The program will include supervised counseling practice with high school students.

NEW JERSEY

RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY (New Brunswick, New Jersey), June 29-August 7; 6 semester hours; Dr. C. Winfield Scott, Director.

The institute is planned to help beginning counselors develop greater understanding and skill in the selection, administration, and interpretation of educational and psychological tests and in counseling adolescents, particularly those with high ability, on educational and vocational problems. The program of instruction will emphasize measurements and counseling equally, and include laboratory work.

NEW YORK

COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York), July 1-August 7; 6 hours; Dr. Dorothy Davis Sebald, Director.

The institute is open to selected guidance workers in secondary schools in the New York City area who present 16 credits in guidance and psychology. Leaders of national repute will conduct courses in measurement and occupations, featuring field and laboratory experience, and will lecture or guidance policy in the current crisis.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (New York, New York), July 6-July 31; 6 points; Dr. Milton Schwebel, Director.

The aim of the institute is to help experienced counselors develop a deeper understanding of the psychosocial dynamics of human waste, familiarity with the latest knowledge in counseling and testing, and greater competence in the use of such knowledge and understanding in counseling with youth. The program will concentrate on the following areas of unused talent: low socioeconomic groups, minority groups, and the emotionally distressed of all groups. In the first two instances waste is attributed both to attitudes and realistic factors; in the third, primarily to attitudes. It is expected that the enrolled counselors will have an opportunity to reevaluate their attitudes about these groups, in addition to learning new facts about them and new skills in working with them.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (Syracuse, New York), July 27-September 4; 6 semester hours; Dr. W. J. Dipboye, Director.

The institute will place emphasis on research findings relevant to the work of school counselors in the identification and guidance of able students and the process of career choice.

NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE (Raleigh, North Carolina), June 8-July 17; 6 semester hours; Dr. Roy N. Anderson, Director.

The institute will emphasize counseling, educational-vocational information, and testing. It will be organized on a workshop approach combining theory and a supervised practicum with superior high school students. It will be a double-track plan for those who are just beginning their professional training and for those already assigned to counseling responsibilities who wish to improve their counseling skills and techniques.

NORTH DAKOTA

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA (Grand Forks, North Dakota), June 15-August 8; 8 semester hours; Dr. Paul F. Munger, Director.

The institute is designed to provide more effective guidance, testing, and counseling techniques for school counselors. One emphasis will be on the articulation between college and rural schools.

OHIO

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (Columbus, Ohio), June 22-August 14; 10 quarter hours; Dr. Herman J. Peters, Director.

The institute will emphasize a study of the techniques for the identification of able secondary school students. In addition, supervised case studies with secondary school students will be conducted.