FT: the person you supervise now, could be your boss soon! Put another way, there will come a day when you will need the support of a person who is currently at or below you in the[...]

Think about all the people who are affiliated with your work; presidents to parents, to students to staff. You are not any more or less knowledgeable than any of them. You do not h[...]

The Power of One. I’m used to hearing this phrase and it is always uplifting and full of spirit and joy. Yet, it never seems complete or whole. It’s like a fairytale we all buy int[...]

  Are you an I or an E? This is a familiar question for student affairs professionals primarily those who have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Whether you are an I or E[...]

When I first became a mother, I grappled on a regular basis with the intersection of parenting and being a student affairs professional. There seemed to be, in my mind, a constant [...]

I use a really amazing iPhone app called “Sleep Cycle” as my alarm clock. It uses the accelerometer in my phone to wake me at the lightest part of my sleep within a 30 [...]

There I stood: staring at my shoes dripping in wet mud. I rapidly realized that my pants had also become a victim of the huge mud pile I had stepped in on the sidewalk rushing to a[...]

I recently started my first full time position at Valparaiso University as a Residential Learning Coordinator. Working at this private Lutheran institution of approximately 4,000 s[...]

Regardless of the different types of higher education institutions one may be in, there are always conversations among professionals about the restrictiveness in our field. This re[...]

Somewhere on my position description, it should read “position is responsible for managing entry-level professional blowback to unpopular decisions, while supporting said dec[...]