Remove Books Remove Professional Development Remove Student Affairs
article thumbnail

Student Affairs Professionals Gather to Discuss Future of the Profession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With the goal of infusing scholarship into practice, thousands of student affairs practitioners from colleges and universities across the nation gathered in Boston to strategize about the future of the profession. This has translated as mentoring in my professional life. Terrell Educational Foundation. The panel included Drs.

article thumbnail

Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. Before coming to Otero, Alvarez was a senior fellow for NASPA (student affairs administrators in higher education) and a vice president for student affairs at North Dakota State University.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, I’m a data person, and you are too!

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Personas showcase the synergy of skills, encourage collaboration, and reflect the real-world complexity of professional contributions, emphasizing that no one person has all abilities. Staff will complete a skill inventory based on Parnells Data Identity Framework (refer to Chapter 7 of Parnells book to inventory your skills!)

article thumbnail

Dear Dan, We Need More Frankensteins: The Value of the SAAL Blog for HESA Student Learning

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Perhaps more importantly (or more frightening), at least five cohorts of University of Connecticut (UConn) Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) master’s students know your monsters, too. Mahoney, 2020 ) play an important role in the learning and development of emerging UConn HESA student affairs assessment leaders.

article thumbnail

All I Really Need to Know to Be a Professor, I Learned Doing Assessment

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Gavin Henning Professor of Higher Education, New England College In 1986, the year I graduated from college, one of the hottest books in bookstores (on bookshelves, not on Amazon since it didn’t exist then), was All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulgham. It seems that I’ve become somewhat of a writing generalist.

article thumbnail

SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

SRHE

Books with DOIs are more discoverable on Google Scholar Lettie Y Conrad (independent) and Michelle Urberg of EBSCO blogged for The Scholarly Kitchen about their funded study to find how metadata contributes to the successful discovery of academic and research literature via the mainstream web.

article thumbnail

Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. This edited volume comprises 19 book chapters divided into two sections: (a) primary and secondary settings; and (b) postsecondary settings. Dr. Erik M.