The doors open. A blast of soothing cold air. The smell of fruit. The sounds of excited chatter. Bright Hawaiian shirts. Trader Joe’s–I have arrived. One hour to wander the s[...]

Whatever we do for this next video, I will not sing. -Melissa, 10 minutes before we wrote a parody of the 12 Days of Christmas. Clearly, we don’t listen very well to our own [...]

My usual morning begins by checking social media, eating breakfast, and asking myself, “What am I going to wear today?” I’ve been really struggling with the latter lately. I live i[...]

As a Supplemental Instruction (SI) Coordinator, I hear the question almost daily. “So, how is this different from tutoring?” I basically have an elevator pitch ready to[...]

Do one-on-ones with students feel stale? Run-of-the-mill? Boring? I felt the same way during my first year of graduate school until I decided to switch things up a bit. Here are so[...]

Thanks to everyone who participated in our #SAchat focused on  What now? The aftermath on campus of the national tragedies. In this week’s chat 70 Student affairs professiona[...]

“What? Again? Wait, no; how? Why? For what? How could…? But, now in 2016? Who did it?” These were only a few of the many questions and thoughts that raced through my head as I awok[...]

Thanks to everyone who participated in our #SAchat focused on  Disorder and discomfort in SA pro Facebook group. In this week’s chat 83 Student affairs professionals, graduat[...]

Let me first get this fun fact out of the way – Yes, I am 100% Italian-American, and yes I was an active member in the Filipino club at Fordham University while I was in coll[...]

There are times in a student affairs professional’s career where they reflect on things they wish their students knew. We make a promise to ourselves to make sure they learn [...]