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Article: A pathway to the presidency: student affairs professionals are increasingly moving into the top job on college campuses.(Special report: careers in higher education)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- November 18, 2004
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If you took a random sampling of student affairs professionals, they'd all agree: without the work they do with students, campus functions would simply grind to a halt.
"Student affairs professionals spend 80 percent of their time with students. We do admissions and registration, we house them and feed them, we do the counseling and guidance and all the other things they need to properly develop in the classroom," says Dr. Roosevelt Littleton, president of the National Association of Student Affairs Professionals and special projects manager for Jackson State University's office of development.
But ask that same random sampling of student affairs ...