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All Together Now: Doing Big Work with Small Resources

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Here is the next installment of our conversation series getting to know the leaders that make up this wonderful group of Student Affairs Assessment Leaders and learning from their personal stories. I joined the SAAL blog team after starting a new role as the Director of Assessment, Data Analytics, and Research at the University of Delaware.

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

It was early in 2017 when our Student Life department received the approval we had been waiting for – we were embarking on a journey to make the University of Guelph-Humber a CliftonStrengths campus and I was tasked with leading the project. You may be asking what is CliftonStrengths (CS) and how does it help students?

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Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges: Changing Higher Ed podcast 256 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Brent Miller of HED

The Change Leader, Inc.

Corporate Sponsorships: Companies like Ford Motor Company are entering into collaborative research and facility-sharing agreements with universities, creating mutual value while funding new infrastructure. students in robotics to advance mutual research priorities. UC Merced 2020 , a $1.3B What are the benefits for doing that?

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Dining halls can contribute to eating disorders—and recovery

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” The university spent two years debating the decision, Brown said, with campus health officials, researchers, parents and students weighing in. Care for students with eating disorders has long been the domain of campus counseling and health services. “It truly does take a village.”

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From horse-drawn carriage to advanced data visualization tools: Key considerations to keep in mind when designing a dashboard

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Similarly, clean dashboards only contain immediately necessary information, but a dashboard should also have links to documented sources and definitions or risk misinterpretations. Shaun Boren is the Director of Student Life Assessment & Research at the University of Florida.

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3 Big Things I Wish I Knew in Grade 12

Student Life Network

The pandemic definitely altered some of my decisions, however, even if it had not happened, I still feel that I would have done a few things differently when picking my program if given another chance. When going through your research, document all the information you collect: it is crucial.

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What even is a University anyway?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

They progress to big picture thinking, drawing attention to the importance of a number of areas prominent in the wider Higher Education zeitgeist: student-owned spaces; citizenship; interdisciplinary research; forum; catalyst; community; and collaborative learning.