I was quite surprised. On March 15th, I came across a post on the Facebook from one of the Assistant Vice Chancellors of Student Affairs at my university, UC Santa Barbara. Her pos[...]

I am writing to process this pandemic and share my story in an effort to contribute to the selfless community of student affairs practitioners. “What should I be doing?” “What can [...]

“Success lies in absorbing negative feedback and making the best use of it” ~ Osama Sarwar As a supervisor of student employees, an important aspect of your role is to prepare them[...]

Your social media timelines are most likely full of decorated mortar boards, tassels, gowns– heartfelt posts of what it means to be a graduate of their respective institution[...]

Job searching looks easy from the outside. Especially for those office culture chameleon-types. You know who I’m talking about. They’ve had 5 jobs in the past two years just becaus[...]

For as long as I’ve been in a higher education setting, the term self-care has been constantly thrown around.  I’ve attended more presentations on the concept than I can count R[...]

For the past eleven years, I spent nearly three and a half hours per day traveling to work. That equals a horrible grand total of 17 hours per week! Finding out this fun fact usual[...]

With everything already on our plates, adding yet-another-Thing(tm) can be overwhelming. When the Thing(tm) is tuning into public policy, suddenly that stubborn task at the bottom [...]

Ah, transitions. A major theme of my life has been changing locations. Whether it was moving two hours away for undergrad, changing residence centers as a hall director, picking up[...]

It was around 10am when it struck me. My day started like most of the days I’ve had over the previous few months. Driving my partner to work, going home, making coffee and br[...]