I was quite surprised. On March 15th, I came across a post on the Facebook from one of the Assistant Vice Chancellors of Student Affairs at my university, UC Santa Barbara. Her pos[...]

Student Activities Without the Students: One Practitioner’s Account of Higher Education in the Time of COVID-19  For several weeks, there was persistent chatter. Rumblings, guesses[...]

I am writing to process this pandemic and share my story in an effort to contribute to the selfless community of student affairs practitioners. “What should I be doing?” “What can [...]

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[...]

This post is part one in our three part series on the #SAGrad search for #CSAM18. Check back here next Wednesday for part two in our installment: “You’re In! Now What?&[...]

As I prepare to wrap up my graduate school experience in the next 3 weeks, I really wonder in the most cliche way possible: where did the time go? It seems that the last two years [...]

We’ve all had transitions in our lives. Some are easier than others. Like many of you, I’ve had a few significant transitions, and at first I was hard pressed to select just one fo[...]

  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[...]

So as many of you know (assuming you have been reading my recent posts), I am moving back to Chicago, IL area. The move will allow me to be closer to family and be in the city the [...]

I remember it like it was yesterday. Freshmen year of college. People talk a lot about the Freshmen 15. Maybe it does exist. It didn’t happen to me, but I came very close to it. I [...]