As a kid, I yearned to have a checkbook and spend money like an adult. The feeling of getting money every week, putting it in the bank then spending it on the popular toy of the mo[...]

Our next Final Question post comes from Kristen Abell who shared her FQ during our 10/25 #SAChat on Students with Mental Health Concerns. Let’s just get this out in the open: I hav[...]

I’m always a fan of trying to use my own experience in order to more concretely connect with my students. As a straight, white man however, many of my students from other cultural,[...]

This past week our office, the Office of Student Life, worked alongside the Bergen County Police department and the Office of Public Safety to organize a Crime Prevention Day on ca[...]

I sit on a committee at my school for an annual event to honor veterans. In the first meeting I attended this past Spring, I was caught off-guard during introductions. I usually do[...]

After a full day of toting boxes and bags of clothes up three flights of stairs, the Sheldon family was finally done with helping their daughter Rachel move in to her new residence[...]

In a meeting last week someone referred to our students as “customers,” but then, realizing what had been done, quickly walked the statement back by saying something like, “not tha[...]

While I’m writing this I have peaches still under my fingernails. We’ve had a bad year for farmers here in Western New York,  a very late hard frost/freeze, a wet and c[...]

This past week I went back to Oakland to see some friends and get in some of the sights and sounds I dearly missed. In retrospect, I miss the northbound 880 freeway getting jammed [...]

Curious what Student Affairs folks read about the most in July? Below are the top 5 posts for last month: 1. MY NEW REALITY 2. WHAT’S YOUR INNOVATION TYPE?  3. BUILDING TRUST AS A [...]