This chapter explores Facebook.com's current and potential uses for increasing college student involvement. Ideas based on Astin's model of student involvement provide a framework for discussion.

This article gives evidence of how and why feature films are effective instructional tools, particularly when teaching concepts of human development to college students. In addition to capturing student interest, use of films helps to dramatize and frame issues, generate discussion, and provide links with personal experience.

Fresh Start, a career development project in Rapid City, South Dakota focusing on Native American parolees with multiple barriers to employment, was effective in placing 75% of its 1994 group in jobs. Clients reported that feeling valued and important was the most important aspect of the experience.