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What issues and trends affect higher education and student affairs today? In this fully updated handbook, leading experts discuss the answer to this and other essential questions. They provide a definitive reference for student affairs professionals at all levels of administration and management. The handbook offers specific, practical advice as well as broad approaches to planning and problem solving. It contains modernized discussions on such critical topics as institutional mission, institutional governance, understanding campus environments, finance and budgeting, assessment, program planning, staff selection, training and evaluation, and much more.
A discussion among student personnel administrators of how they had come to careers in student affairs, of the complexities of making choices for personal and professional development, and of advice they wished they had received from, or would like to give to, others in the field led to the development of this monograph. Articles include: (1) "Careers in Student Affairs: An Introduction" (Arthur Sandeen); (2) "Preparing for Student Personnel in the 1980s" (Robert H. Shaffer); (3) "The New Professional" (Alan F. Kirby); (4) "The Middle Management Professional" (Orcilia Z. Forbes); (5) "Thoughts on Career Advancement" (Edward E. Birch); (6) "Once Upon a Time in the West: One Woman's Path to the Vice-Presidency" (Peggy Elder); and (7) "Summary Thoughts and a Look to the Future" (Lelia Moore). The articles deal with the past, present, and future of the student personnel profession and the profession's central role in higher education. Specific suggestions are given on what the field needs now and will need in the future from its practitioners in the way of skills, a knowledge base, and attitude toward change. A selected bibliography is included. (NB)
Sponsored by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators What issues and trends affect higher education and student affairs today? What skills and competencies will student affairs administrators need to confront change and future challenges? What opportunities and choices will they discover as they strive to develop professionally? In this fully updated handbook, thirty-nine experts discuss the answers to these and other essential questions. Together, they provide a definitive reference for student affairs professionals at all levels of administration and management. Organized into five distinct sections and over thirty insightful chapters, The Handbook of Student Affairs A...
Effective socialization of new student affairs professionals is essential—both for the individual success of these practitioners, and for the work of a college or university that promotes student learning. It enables new professionals to manage the important personal and professional transitions they experience throughout their careers, engage in continuous professional development, and achieve high levels of productivity. It also counteracts the high attrition rate among new hires, with all the attendant costs to the institution in terms of resources spent on recruiting, hiring, training, supervising, and developing staff talent.The socialization process for new professionals includes for...
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Student affairs is now part of the management and administrative structure of almost every college and university in the United States. Professional staff working under the banner of student affairs are engaged in a wide variety of educational, support, and service functions. Measured by almost any standard, today’s student affairs profession has never been stronger. There are still, however, a number of critical issues that must be debated and discussed if the student affairs profession is to move forward in the years ahead. Critical Issues for Student Affairs identifies the most vital issues currently confronting the student affairs profession. Each chapter in this important volume focuses on a specific issue and presents a background, a summary of related research and writing, an examination of the issue, related references, and a list of suggestions for further discussion.
This monograph, intended for a broad range of student affairs practitioners, provides eight papers on mid-level managers in higher education student affairs whose needs have perhaps been subsumed within other aspects of career tenure or career specialty. The following papers are included: "Defining Student Affairs Mid-management" by Robert B. Young; "Moving In, Out, Up, or Nowhere? The Mobility of Mid-managers" by Meg Benke and Carol S. Disque;"Mid-management Role Issues: Expectations, Conflicts and Ambiguities" by J. Roger Penn; "Press and Stress: A Comparative Study of Institutional Factors Affecting the Work of Mid-managers" by Janet White, Laura Webb, and Robert B. Young; "Through the Looking Glass: A Case Study of Perceptions of and about Mid-managers" by Frances Lucas;"Professional Development and Career Issues for Mid-managers" by D. Stanley Carpenter; "Professional Development Strategies" by William A. Bryan and Richard H. Mullendore; and "Making the Most of Mid-management" by Robert B. Young. Most of the chapters offer extensive references. (JB)