ABSTRACT
Students have always been at the center of the student affairs profession. Beginning with The Student Personnel Point ofView, 1937 (ACE, 1937), the profession claimed as its central purpose the education of the whole student. This emphasis intensified as student affairs accepted chief responsibility for responding to the needs of new nontraditional students brought into higher education through.the GI Bill. The adoption of the philosophy of student development afforded the profession the authority of being a strong voice for students in the academy. Student development theory has furthered the view that students are at the center of the academy.
