Student affairs professionals spend their work lives helping to educate and develop their students, but don’t necessarily have the time or resources to educate and develop themselv[...]
If you are debating pursuing a doctoral degree or already in a program and working full time, this episode is for you! Every year hundreds of Student Affairs Professionals give up [...]
I feel the need to preface this post with the disclaimer that, yes, I am an #SAPro and, yes, I really enjoy it! I don’t mean to imply that it is a bad thing to be very involv[...]
One of the things that drew me to my graduate program, and ultimately one of my favorite parts of my experience, was the requirement to have at least 6 credit hours’ worth of inter[...]
About a year ago, I started feeling burnt out. I was working in admissions and grew convinced that I wasn’t really making a difference or truly serving my community. It didn’t help[...]
In the fall of 2011, I was initiated into Delta Sigma Pi. Delta Sigma Pi is an international co-ed business fraternity whose mission is organized to foster the study of business i[...]
Volunteering changed my life – no, seriously. It is volunteerism that taught me that I wanted to make a difference in our world, what made me a “wannabe superhero” – what fulfills [...]
When I started high school, I heard murmurs of stories about sex and the Lessina birth control pill. I witnessed the shame and violence inflicted upon a friend when our peers learn[...]
After graduating from my student affairs master’s program and moving up to Maine for my first full-time professional job, I found myself looking to get involved with fulfilling end[...]
I’ve always believed that at the core of a student affairs practitioner is the burning desire to leave whatever space we occupy better than we found it. Be it a campus, an office, [...]