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Personality Testing By The Schools: A Possible Invasion Of Privacy, Angelika Hoyman Apr 1976

Personality Testing By The Schools: A Possible Invasion Of Privacy, Angelika Hoyman

IUSTITIA

Contemporary critics, concerned with the maintenance of personal privacy, have termed the use of personality tests a "white glove rack and screw" . Monroe H. Freedman, Dean of Hofstra University School of Law, while testifying before a congressional subcommittee, compared the use of psychological tests to the administration of truth serums and found both to be an affront to personal dignity.

Nevertheless, the 1960's witnessed a three-fold increase in the number of school counselors employed in most schools and a nation-wide survey of these counselors indicated that at least one-third of their time was spent in dealing with the personal …


Collecting National Defense/Direct Student Loans: Is It A Financial Aid Office Responsibility, John S. Swift Jr. Feb 1976

Collecting National Defense/Direct Student Loans: Is It A Financial Aid Office Responsibility, John S. Swift Jr.

Journal of Student Financial Aid

Annually, millions of dollars are not available to reloan because colleges are not making a real­ly sincere effort to collect the loans past due and delinquent. Catching up on the accounts which have become delinquent is the hardest job because of the time it takes. But once you are current, keeping ahead of borrowers whose accounts become delinquent is not as difficult or as time consum­ing. The hurdles, in the order in which they exist, are to accept the situ­ation, to coordinate collection, and to begin contacting those in arrears. The rewards are well worth the time and the cost.