My favorite part of attending national conferences is catching up with past coworkers and networking with new friends. If I could sum up my conversations during NASPA a couple of w[...]

Day One: Hostel Takeover Check-in I arrived in New Orleans downright confused about The Placement Exchange. There was limited information on TPE website for on-site attendees, and [...]

In the midst of the challenging yet fun job search for student affairs grads across the country, there are professionals who sit in their roles impatiently. The sophomore class (as[...]

  As the snow melts and birds chirp, I am reminded that the peak time of job searching in student affairs in fast approaching. This post will highlight a few statistics regard[...]

Every time I think of my dual career search, I think of that horribly contrived scene in Armageddon with the straws. No matter how much you don’t want to draw the straws in the fir[...]

  Congratulations to everyone who just survived #TPE2015! And congratulations to all #SAsearch’ers out there! In the spirit of #SAsearch – I would like to know thi[...]

I was quick to volunteer to write for this series – I’ve made big moves for student affairs related reasons a few times now, so I felt like I might have something to say on the top[...]

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, directly between Milwaukee and Chicago, where tractors and cows were just as prevalent as cars and people, and that’s only a slight exaggera[...]

The gates have opened, the horses have taken off and the crowd is cheering as the brightly dressed jockeys blur past on ridiculously named thoroughbreds. The hooves stampede into t[...]

Rivalries between institutions are often things of legend in higher education. Our alma maters teach students, employees, and the community to despise the rival. We are fed histori[...]