Recently added articles from College Student Affairs Journal:
EDITORIAL
Oct 01, 2006; ... Ten years ago, I began the second phase of my student affairs career by moving from my position as the Director of Residential Life to being a full time faculty member in the Clemson Student Affairs Graduate Preparation Program. In making this career move, I began thinking about what types of ...
MEMORIAL TO JESSE C. SAWYER
Oct 01, 2006; ... FIRST EDITOR OF THE COLLEGE STUDENT AFFAIRS JOURNAL It is an honor to have been asked to develop a memorial statement to Dr. Jesse C. Sawyer. "Buzz" Sawyer was the name most of us used to refer to him. He and I worked together for over a decade at The University of Alabama at Birmingham ...
College Students' Experiences and Perceptions of Harassment on Campus: An Exploration of Gender Differences
Oct 01, 2006; ... Using a campus climate assessment instrument developed by Rankin (1998), we surveyed students (N = 7,347) from 10 campuses to explore the different experiences with harassment and campus climates reported by men and women. Both men and women reported experiencing harassment, although women ...
Eating Disorders in Female College Athletes: Risk Factors, Prevention, and Treatment
Oct 01, 2006; ... Female athletes are at risk for developing eating disorders because of the pressures that are placed on them by society, their peers, their coaches, and the sports culture itself. This paper reviews the literature on the risk factors involved and various methods of prevention and treatment. The ...
The Luke Principle: Counting the Costs of Organizational Change for One-Stop Service Models in Student Affairs
Oct 01, 2006; ... For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, this man began to build and was not ...
Supervision of New Professionals in Student Affairs: Assessing and Addressing Needs
Oct 01, 2006; ... This qualitative study examined the supervision of new professionals from the perspectives of new professionals and their supervisors. Analysis of interviews with four new professionals and their supervisors suggested the following: (a) supervisors supervised the way they wanted to be ...
Five Thorny Questions to Ask When Planning for an Avian Flu Pandemic
Oct 01, 2006; ... Public health experts project a strong possibility that an avian flu pandemic will occur in the next 4 years, and the federal government has already warned that states and localities must make their own plans for this event since such a broad scale public health crises would far outstrip federal ...
Promoting reasonable expectations: Aligning student and institutional views of the college experience
Oct 01, 2006; ... Miller, T. W., Bender, B. E., Schuh, J. H., & Associates (Eds.). (2005). Promoting reasonable expectations: Aligning student and institutional views of the college experience. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 264 pages, ISBN: 0-7879-7624-5 Reviewed by Marc H. Shook* Promoting ...
INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE: THE FUTURE OF STUDENT AFFAIRS
Apr 01, 2006; ... Higher education, as an entity, looks ahead while learning from the past. We work to create knowledge within the context of what we already know. We educate students to push the boundaries of this knowledge beyond what we know now. As is the case with the rest of the academy, it is the nature of ...
Appreciative Inquiry and Student Affairs: A Positive Approach to Change
Apr 01, 2006; ... Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an organisation development (OD) philosophy that utilizes and builds on past successes, using these as positive momentum for future change. AI provides student affairs with an alternative and generative approach to improving their organizations' processes and ...
Ethical Decision Making: A Teaching and Learning Model for Graduate Students and New Professionals
Apr 01, 2006; ... Student affairs practitioners are inundated with a variety of ethical considerations when making day-to-day decisions regarding the welfare of students and colleagues. There is every reason to believe that confronting ethical issues will be an increasingly difficult issue for student affairs ...
Study Abroad Programming: A 21st Century Retention Strategy?
Apr 01, 2006; ... Preparing the workforce for an increasingly global economy is among the leading concerns in higher education, and retention of students is vital to successfully managing this economic shift. Study abroad programming consistently yields positive outcomes that span these three levels and may very ...
Student Engagement: A New Paradigm for Student Affairs
Apr 01, 2006; ... Today more than ever, student affairs must respond to a wide range of demands for accountability and respond to requests to assist faculty in designing the best learning environment for students. Student engagement is a term used to explain a set of beliefs that can guide student affairs as a ...
Student Affairs and Service Learning: Promoting Student Engagement
Apr 01, 2006; ... Why should service learning be placed within student affairs? What special skills can student affairs professionals bring to service-learning program implementation? How can administrators use this program to promote strong student affairs-academic affairs collaboration? This article discusses a ...
Grant Writing as a Funding Source and Collaborative Endeavor
Apr 01, 2006; ... Grant writing provides not only financial rewards but also insights into the living mission of an institution, and points toward collaborative opportunities within and among various units across a campus. In the future, more and more grant funded programs will be a necessary part of our work in ...
Increasing Accountability in Student Affairs through a New Comprehensive Assessment Model
Apr 01, 2006; ... This article gives an overview of a new model for assessment practice within student affairs divisions. With the current increase of accountability and greater demands from higher education stakeholders, student affairs practitioners need to understand how to demonstrate the effectiveness and ...
Connecting Services to Students: New Technology and Implications for Student Affairs
Apr 01, 2006; ... Technology is affecting how student affairs professionals work with students to deliver traditional programs and services. This article begins with an overview of the characteristics of current students and their experiences and comfort with technology. This understanding leads to the role of ...
Beyond Professional Preparation Programs: The Role of Professional Associations in Ensuring a High Quality Workforce
Apr 01, 2006; ... Professional associations have an obligation to ensure the quality of professional preparation and practice, to provide continuing professional education, and to recognize those practitioners who take steps to improve their knowledge and practice. To date, no student affairs association has ...
The Nature of Relationships and Rewards for Student Affairs Professionals at Liberal Arts Institutions
Oct 01, 2005; ... This study examined the nature of relationships and rewards for student affairs administrators at liberal arts colleges (LACs). Forty-three student affairs administrators from LACs participated in five focus groups. Results indicate that administrators tend to spend most of their time with ...
Mid-Level Student Affairs Managers: Skill Importance and Need for Continued Professional Development
Oct 01, 2005; ... The purpose of this national study was to profile mid-level student affairs managers and to determine the importance they placed on professional development skills. The need for further skill development was compared to perceived skill importance. Preferred methods of staff development were also ...