High Five! That’s right, you just received a high five. Did it make you smile? Did you laugh? Maybe you felt motivation or a connection to someone new? There is also the chance it [...]
When the Student Affairs Collective reached out to student affairs professionals to share their side hustles with the world, I almost fell out of my chair with excitement. I’ve bec[...]
Hello Student Affairs Colleagues! My name is Rebecca Krylow. By day I am an Academic Advisor in the Honors College at Purdue University; by night, I’m filling current orders [...]
We like to play with bugs. I’m sorry. I mean, “insects.” My fiancé, Steven, gave me a side-eye after he read the first sentence. The word, “bug,” is the same as Student Affairs pro[...]
My name is Sinclair Ceasar and I’m an Assistant Director of Residence Life at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, MD. If you met me on an elevator, I’d tell you that I’m com[...]
Last week, during my department’s staff retreat, I sat on the stage of our college theater for a reflective activity. I relished in all of its familiarity: traces of marking tape o[...]
Welcome to another great episode of The Student Affairs Spectacular Podcast! Tom & Dustin spoke with Sue Caulfield this week, who is the Assistant Director of Student Affairs a[...]
How many times have you sat in a meeting where hundreds of great ideas are tossed around, but in the end, not much happens? In his book Making Ideas Happen, Scott Belsky repeats th[...]
The “Oblique Strategies” is, first of all, a deck of cards. More importantly, they are a fascinating collection of words and phrases designed to stimulate the creative[...]