A REPORT ON THE 1988 NACADA RESEARCH AWARD WINNERS

NACADA launched its inaugural Research Support Program this year by announcing award-winning proposals at the Chicago National Conference in October. Earlier in the year five thousand copies of the research announcement had been printed and distributed individually to NACADA members, to regional representatives and to attendees at NACADA regional conferences. Notices of the Research Support Program had been printed in the Newsletter and the Journal. As a result of promotional activities, seventy requests were received for the Application for Research Support. Requests came from sixty-one institutions located in thirty states. The yield of completed proposals from the application mailout amounted to sixteen: fourteen in the practicing professional category and two in the dissertation research category. From this pool of sixteen, six proposals were selected for funding in 1988. Overviews of the six winning proposals appear in this report.