Anyone can change something. It takes a visionary idea and humble approach to evolve. Organizations crave leaders that evolve their practices and often scoff at those obsessed with[...]

FT: We all have the ability to make change – use that power responsibly! Always improve what we do but keep students at the center. With great power comes great responsibility. The[...]

I can still hear the words echoing in the back of my head during graduate school interviews: ”Just remember, Student Affairs is a small field, so always be careful. Mistakes will f[...]

Image from Flickr Creative Commons   I once witnessed a varsity facilitator in action.  I’ve seen impressive facilitators before but I got to see a facilitator wield accountab[...]

This past Friday night we held our annual Club Leadership Awards. For this event each Club advisor nominates one student to receive an award for outstanding leadership displayed th[...]

Image borrowed from HERE Recently I watched a colleague struggle significantly with a committee she was heading up. Once a group of 10 active and reliable members, her group droppe[...]

Image borrowed from Chaoscomedy.com Nobody likes failure. But in the world of student affairs, and in the “real” world in general, it’s a fact of life that we need to engage, appre[...]

Image borrowed from www.amillionlives.net Sometimes there is an advantage to being so busy that you don’t really leave your office much. One of those advantages is the fact that yo[...]

  Something that has always been a passion of mine in all of my various career incarnations is open-source information sharing. I see this as the concept that sharing awarenes[...]

I’ve found it to be incredibly important to outline certain expectations for the groups I advise.  I recently crafted a brand new set of student expectations that covers both[...]