CALLING ALL WRITERS! The Student Affairs Collective is looking for excited, passionate people to join our writing team! Ever thought about writing about student affairs and higher [...]

1 – It’s Easy to Disappear I mean this in a variety of ways. It’s easy for me to disappear into my work without thinking about it. Because there isn’t anyone else around chatting w[...]

For many of us in Student Affairs, summer serves as a great time to catch up, relax, and maybe do some traveling. The extra time can also serve as a great time to reflect on person[...]

Ah, transitions. A major theme of my life has been changing locations. Whether it was moving two hours away for undergrad, changing residence centers as a hall director, picking up[...]

It was around 10am when it struck me. My day started like most of the days I’ve had over the previous few months. Driving my partner to work, going home, making coffee and br[...]

My home base of Chicago is known as “The City of the Broad Shoulders” something I feel deeply, having been born in the city and raised in the suburbs. So when I took a [...]

  Most of my colleagues, family, friends, and students were shocked when I told them I was moving to Minnesota. As a born and raised Californian, 1.5 generation Taishanese/mix[...]

A career change–even a position change– can fundamentally reshape our day-to-day life, the way we see ourselves, and the way others see us. Student affairs is a field i[...]

September is a time of immense change for many of us within the field of student affairs. From opening new (or old) buildings to moving to new cities, onboarding new colleagues to [...]