So, I have a confession to make. I love YouTube. Not just in the way that it allows you to get sucked into hours of proposal videos, or the way that it helps teach you how to fix y[...]
Trust. This word is simultaneously specific and vague to us all. We know what it means. We all know how it feels. But can we define it? Merriam-Webster Dictionary references five d[...]
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[...]
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 [...]