Student Services in Higher Education

Equips faculty members and administrators to competently and confidently serve as advisers to clubs and other student groups.

Offers a contemporary look at the foundational elements and practical application of assessment in student affairs.

This book constitutes a practical guide to leading and implementing an assessment program - whether doing so full- or part-time, as an individual or in a multi-person office, or whether reporting to or being in positional leadership.

This resource will help you to set up a program and/or a set of strategies that promotes skill development to better manage difference on a personal, institutional, community, or societal level.

Presents a collection of case studies that explore issues faced by new professionals in student affairs, with the scenarios designed to develop ACPA/NASPA Professional Competencies.

Introduces practitioners and researchers of student affairs to the use of images as a means to gaining new insights in researching and promoting student learning and development, and understanding the campus environment.

Offers practical guidance to anyone in the field interested in presenting at conferences or publishing in scholarly and professional journals, and sets the work of scholarly practice in the context of its vital role of influencing and shaping the future of student affairs, and in promoting continuous learning.

Focuses on narratives written by new professionals about their introduction and transitions into Student Affairs work.

Provides the practical directions for embedding assessment in the fabric of practice.

The authors consider critical elements of learning community programs and offer recommendations and options for faculty and staff who work with, or hope to work with, this particular curricular and cocurricular learning structure.

Thought-provoking and pragmatic guide to the increasingly complex challenges and expectations that administrators face from both students and the public.

This book addresses religion and secularism as critical and contested elements of college student diversity. It both examines why and how this topic has become an integral aspect of the field of student affairs, and considers how scholars and practitioners should engage in the discussion, as well as the extent to which they should be involved in students' crises of faith, spiritual struggles, and questions of life purpose.

Provides student affairs staff with the grounding they need to integrate assessment into how they design and monitor the programs, services, and activities they create to contribute to students' development.

By providing this concise introduction to student affairs as a discipline and a profession, the authors of this volume provide a foundation for working together to improve the student experience and enhance learning.

Explores leadership as an interactive process within varied environmental contexts, and through an analysis of the transactional process between the leader, the organizational members and the various components of the organizations environment.

Classic comprehensive text for graduate students in student affairs, updated for perspective on critical issues such as ethical standards, campus culture, psychosocial development, student retention, assessment and evaluation, and much more.

Provides a framework for excellence in student affairs work at community colleges, including assessing quality and outcomes for program development and accreditation.