When I first heard “turnover” when I was younger, I thought my dad was talking about an apple turnover (which, BTW, is delicious). However, after going through undergra[...]

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[...]

The job search can be stressful! During your time within education, you may participate in many job searches. My hardest job search was my first. I applied to 150 positions and fel[...]

Like many professionals within higher education early in their career, I left my graduate program ready to take on the world and moved halfway across the country for my first full-[...]

Hey there! I’m Doug Tate and I’ve just entered my first professional position out of grad school as a Residence Hall Director at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY. W[...]

In mid-May, I went out for breakfast sandwiches on a Tuesday morning with my counterpart, Damian, to celebrate our one-year anniversary. Exactly one year prior to that day, we ente[...]