I’ve been fortunate to serve as a student organization advisor for the entirety of my career in student affairs.  I work with three different groups: a men’s fraternity, the runnin[...]

Community college students are typically less likely to participate in on-campus leadership activities than their peers at the four-year universities (Miller et al., 2005). Fifty-n[...]

Advising student organizations at a community college is like cultivating asparagus; two years until they are “harvested” by graduation and transfer on, generally speaking. In fact[...]

Student: “What do we do about this?” Silence. And suddenly all eyes are on me. Uh oh…at that moment I knew I had to change the way I was advising the organization[...]

Some of you may remember The Fish! Philosophy books and videos featuring the staff of the Pike’s Place Fish Market in Seattle. I would always get tickled when watching the video in[...]

In the early days of my career, I remember being so confident in my ability to be a great advisor to students. As a new professional, I served on every committee possible to expand[...]

One of my favorite aspects of my assistantship was co-advising our feminist student organization, FORCE. Like many student organizations, our students worked to put on social justi[...]

If the students with whom you work are anything like mine, they run about a mile a minute. Many students are juggling school, work, and personal lives while doing their best to pre[...]

The summer for me is always a time to pause and reflect upon the previous academic year. It’s a time to reflect upon my challenges and my accomplishments in my role. Of equal impor[...]