Student leadership is something that institutions around the world aim to achieve. They hope to facilitate the growth of young leaders from their initial orientation sessions to em[...]

Welcome to another great episode of The Student Affairs Spectacular Podcast! This episode is proudly brought to you by…           We have the pleasur[...]

As #SAPros and #SAGrads, we spend a lot of time talking, reading, and writing about transition. We talk about our own transitions from student to professional, our students in tran[...]

For all of my professional career I have had the opportunity and privilege to work at higher education institutions in rural areas. Being born and raised in rural areas I find thes[...]

Without truly understanding it, I began my journey with advising student organizations in 1994, when I co-lead two groups at my Washington University in St. Louis campus. One was a[...]

Each year, my team selects over 150 student leaders to support our residential community across our two main campuses. It’s an intense process – generally involving over 250 applic[...]

It was the end of the spring semester, where we found a discouraged student leader wondering where his organization went wrong: “I just don’t get it. I mean I told the [...]

Coming into my graduate program, I had no idea how useful social media was in regards to student affairs. If you are in the field though, there is a treasure to be found in social [...]

“He still hasn’t enrolled in the online homework, and our first test is Monday. I know him; I had him last semester, he’s a good guy!” The above quote is from a lecturer in the dep[...]

I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to find the right words to address the occurrences in Ferguson, New York City, Cleveland, and a host of other police killings that have taken p[...]