How many of you have heard the saying “The most important thing we can give someone is our time”? We Student Affairs folks think this means devoting our time to our work, our team,[...]

The doors open. A blast of soothing cold air. The smell of fruit. The sounds of excited chatter. Bright Hawaiian shirts. Trader Joe’s–I have arrived. One hour to wander the s[...]

When I look at my desk these days I barely recognize it. Why? My old desk barely ever remained this clean and organized. Just a mere three months ago I worked at Bergen Community C[...]

Happiness/Success Photos (within the blog post) As December begins, the year 2015 is coming to an end. The year 2015 holds a lot of personal memories of of joy, excitement, and cha[...]

This post is co-written by Stephanie Bradley and Courtney Bousquet. Describe your experience in Higher Education.  SB: I’m currently the Manager of Student Affairs at APUS, and my [...]

How do I make work friends? I have asked myself that constantly. As a newer SAPro, and new to my institution, I am often thinking about how I am going to meet people and make a soc[...]

When we started working together–a Latina heteroflexible/queer woman (Luz) from low-socioeconomic status and a white lesbian upper middle class woman (Judy) of similar ages i[...]

  I don’t remember picking up the phone to call my sister. Not that it mattered anyway, we were never not in contact. I lived in Washington, D.C. and had been since I moved th[...]

Living in a city like Syracuse has been a total life changer. Although I am a New York native and have lived here my entire life, nothing could have prepared me for the coldest win[...]

Perfect Dreams In grad school, when I dreamed of the perfect workplace, it was of a group of best friends who went out for happy hour after work and hung out on the weekends. Durin[...]