Your first job in student affairs is going to come with challenges for which your graduate program couldn’t prepare you. It wasn’t long ago that you excitedly told anyone who would[...]

Each year my office utilizes the information from our graduation outcomes survey to send a weekly email series. These emails go out starting spring break, and throughout the summer[...]

I’ll start with a confession. I’ve been fairly obsessed with Hamilton: An American Musical for approximately seven months now. It’s the story of Alexander Hamilton (and, by proxy, [...]

My #dayinSA is filled with advising, assessment, presentations, technology, and teaching.  I am the Assistant Director of Career Services at Virginia Military Institute (VMI). I wo[...]

  With April comes the start of the baseball season. I turn away from the TV and wonder if I can hit my own first pitch.  I am reminded of my competencies when my supervisor c[...]

Connections are absolutely everywhere. And I mean everywhere. And there are few things I love more than finding them. It’s like a joyous Easter egg hunt, only instead of finding pl[...]

Can you hear it?   It is the sound of parents, state legislators, governors, alumni, and students. And they are all saying the same thing. . . What is college worth, and what [...]