Ms. Goes to College

Addressed to the 17- to 20-year-old wo­man, but a book parents may wish to read, this frank and up-to-date manual discusses the educational and personal problems facing today’s college-age wo­men.

While working as a counselor to college students, Jean Henderson was struck by the lack of communication between many young women students and their parents, college administrators, and often their teachers. As a result, college students were counseling each other, sometimes with inaccurate information. In discuss­ing this together, the Hendersons decided that what college women needed was some straightforward accurate information for counseling themselves.

Jean Henderson is apparently especially skilled in winning the confidence of young women; Algo Henderson, a mem­ber of a prominent center for research and development in higher education, had access to excellent research studies on college students. Together they have written an informative, factual, and valuable book for college women. They cover the per­sonal areas of sex, alcohol, drugs, and identity, and also the academic areas—the disciplines, the curriculum. They discuss traditional subjects, modern subjects, vo­cations, and educational decisions for the college student. They tell her how her choices can be used ten or twenty years from now.

The authors are not only perceptive about what college students want to know, they are also experienced in college ad­ministration—between them as college teacher, counselor, dean, and president.