I recently came across an astonishing article in the Boston Globe that described how consultants that work with Asian Americans clients advise to them to appear less Asian in their[...]

It was a month before classes began. I was three months and one career development conference into my role as a new counselor at the Career Center. I found myself in a planning mee[...]

As student affairs professionals, we need to understand and prepare for the short-term and longer-term impact of tragedies like the Orlando massacre. This “human engineered” mass s[...]

Welcome to this episode of The Student Affairs Spectacular Podcast We welcome Jamie Piperato to the show this week. She speaks with Dustin about her efforts helping to build inclus[...]

Around a month ago, I gave my god-daughter some advice on going away to college for the first time. She’s a first-year student at a university in California, first-generation[...]

Who knew how important having biological brothers could be to my career and life’s work? I always wanted to be in education, and as many of us in the field do, I stumbled upon stud[...]

Participating in the NASPA Undergraduate Fellows Program (NUFP) was one of the best and most impactful experiences of my life thus far. I applied to this program in April 2012 befo[...]

One of the most useful ways to observe race, gender, and sexuality dynamics in the higher education workplace is to observe and notice space. Notice the physical space: Who is in t[...]

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[...]

Higher Education/Student Affairs is a unique field, where changes in the US often impact the affairs within an institution. What I mean by this is that, while communities and towns[...]