We’ve covered a wide range of perspectives on  #SAcompetencies this month, but there’s one category left: Assessment, Evaluation, and Research (AER).  Today, I want to share with y[...]

What has changed for you this year? Your habits? Your attitude towards work? What time you wake up in the morning? At the end of every day I ask myself, “What did I do today to imp[...]

One of the competency areas that NASPA and ACPA recommend Student Affairs Professionals be well versed in to be effective practitioners is law, policy, and governance.  Some may fi[...]

Last week, I attended a retreat for the executive board of a professional association that I serve on. Our facilitator began with the question, “How were you socialized in this org[...]

Student learning and development is threaded through everything I do. You know how when you’re in graduate school and you’ve just started to learn about theory and then you see tha[...]

Within my role as an Assistant Director for Training and Development, I’m responsible for training, recruitment and payroll functions or our Residence Life area.  This role h[...]

In all my experiences in higher education and more specifically, Student Conduct, the prestigious quote “Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?” has contributed greatly to my ethical foun[...]

Today I write to you from my trusty stand-up desk amidst the warm glow of my Himalayan Salt Lamp. I now find myself at a place of balance. I have the energy and confidence to walk [...]

As a first-year professional hall director I was very nervous about having to open two residence halls by myself. While I spent a lot of time learning how to do my job that summer,[...]

The majority of my professional experience in graduate school was in student activities and admissions. I spent the first two years after graduate school working in admissions at t[...]