“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.” –  Lauren Bacall There will be days where you wake up from your bed and the oxygen you breathe will feel like a wildfire bu[...]

Anyone else tired? Ok, good. I’m glad it’s not just me. 2016 has seemed to have been a veritable whirlwind of negativity and catastrophe. Not to exaggerate, but multiple medi[...]

Here’s a fun fact: I recently started a new job and can now call myself a #SAPro. As exciting as the past month has been, I am still in a state of “Is this even real[...]

I once heard that your physical environment is a representation of your mind. If that’s true, then I’d say this picture is pretty accurate. Because – full disclosure – I am overwhe[...]

Welcome to another great episode of The Student Affairs Spectacular Podcast! We have the pleasure of having Kathleen (Kat) Burns on the show this week! Dustin speaks her about shin[...]

It seems that most of what I hear about in the news or when scrolling through social media is inherently negative. The negativity really starts weighing on me, especially when the [...]

I’ve officially been a residence director (RD) for six months, and throughout these past six months I experienced a wide range of emotions. I felt self-doubt, anxiousness, an[...]

After the end of the weekend, many people return to work with the belief that Monday is usually a day of non-stop work, meetings, and the harsh reality of going back to the weekly [...]

Over the past four to five years, I have spent an incredible amount of time in a Residence Hall. A Residence Hall has arguably been my home away from home for almost half a decade [...]

In June, I attended the Community College Institute, an annual one-day drive-in conference hosted by CSPA-NYS and held this year at Tompkins Cortland Community College near Ithaca,[...]