What do you do to create leadership development opportunities for your students in your areas? Read up on this week's Student Affairs Chat to find out what folks shared for their [...]

I couldn’t have been in my graduate assistantship more than 24 hours when I first heard about these “expectations” that they had for me as a Graduate Hall Director. I had to chuckl[...]

Five months of planning; four tracks of sessions designed to give a range of options; Three session blocks, Two student governments joining up to "host" the event, …[...]

I have a confession to make…  I am special. It’s not my fault that I’m special, I’m just living up to the expectations that have been placed on me by the people who designed [...]

                Not long ago I had the opportunity to present at a local conference with a[...]

We often get so busy with the day-to-day– that is, LIFE–  until we have to struggle to focus on the world beyond us.  Especially here at the end of the seme[...]

As the semester comes crashing to an end, you may be wrapping up programs and events with student leader teams. I found this thoughtful list of questions from Tim Milburn over at s[...]

Our campus is working on expanding our support for student organization transition as a result of a recent "Aha" moment.  During some expense of brain power about t[...]

We just completed the first of four half-day mini retreats for our peer leaders. These students will be facilitating our first-year seminar course in the fall and they spend [...]

In need of a fun, interactive “getting to know you” icebreaker or class energizer? Barbara Nixon offers this gem for getting to know a new group of students: create a m[...]