The Student Affairs Collective Sheena Kauppila, Author at The Student Affairs Collective

It’s a Solitary #SADoc Life

This fall 2015, I started full-time as a PhD student in the Educational Leadership & Policy department at the University of Utah. I was lucky to receive a research assistantshi[...]

05 Feb 2016

Tag #ELP15, #phdchat, #SAdoc

My Conflicting Emotions on Going Back to School for My #SAdoc

I’ve recently made the big decision to head back to school full-time to pursue my PhD in Educational Leadership & Policy at the University of Utah. As I was looking into[...]

11 Jun 2015

Tag #PhD, #phdchat, #SAdoc, back to school, Doctoral Study, doctorate, impostor syndrome, research

Hiring Student Leaders: Take a Risk

It’s currently hiring season on our campus for Orientation Team Leaders (OTL), Resident Assistants (RA), and Program Assistants (PA). This means countless hours of individual[...]

14 Mar 2015

Tag hiring process, housing, Orientation, orientation team leader, OTL, PA, program assistant, RA, residence life, resident assistant, selection, student employee, student leader, student leadership

When Your Coworkers Aren’t Your Friends

Perfect Dreams In grad school, when I dreamed of the perfect workplace, it was of a group of best friends who went out for happy hour after work and hung out on the weekends. Durin[...]

20 Feb 2015