If you’re looking for a classic student affairs story, keep looking. Highly involved undergrad with lots of school spirit and more extracurriculars than classes? For sure! But the [...]

We’ve all been guilty of those moments of panic where we aren’t quite sure what we should be doing with our lives. Insert me… a 25 year old ex-college athlete trying to discover wh[...]

As I approach the beginning of my graduate career, I thought I would take a few moments to reflect on my undergraduate experience. For many students, an undergraduate education is [...]

“We promise you discovery: the discovery of yourselves, the discovery of the universe, and your place in it.” — Sister Madeleva Wolff, CSC, Former President of Saint Mary’s College[...]

Every year I meet with students who are exhausted, frustrated, angry, and suffering because they are taking care of another student. While we encourage students to engage in up-sta[...]

I recently presented the workshop “Serving students who are experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, and financial crisis”  at the California College Personnel Assoc[...]

I recently read Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Big Magic and a few interesting things happened to me. First, many passages resonated with me and I kept coming back to the book. Next, I f[...]

Diversity is a representation of racial and ethnic identity, age, cultural identity, religious and spiritual identity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical a[...]

As a society, we love dualism.  We enjoy reducing our options to two, and framing it so that the only options we have are the two that we often can’t stop obsessing over.  Yes, our[...]

I recently reread a short essay by Maureen Watson (2015) titled: Treasures in Darkness: Loving the Questions.  In the essay, Watson speaks about what it feels like to live in the d[...]