Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 30, 2023

Frontrow: Jennifer Lowman, Amy Pilcher, Britt Spears-Rhymes, Ciji Heiser, Renee Delgado-Riley, and Shae Robinson) Last month, ACPA and its Commission for Assessment and Evaluation hosted their Student Affairs Assessment Institute in Chicago, IL. Gavin Henning and Anne Lundquist, leaders in student affairs assessment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

They get additional financial supports such as assistance with fees, stipends each semester, and campus “flex dollars” to spend on food and at the bookstore, says Zelon Crawford, SPS’s senior associate dean of student affairs, who oversees the fellowship program. Graduate and undergraduate degrees are expensive,” Crawford says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We’ve seen a rise in hate,” says Dr. Bridget Kelly, an associate professor and student affairs & diversity officer at the University of Maryland’s College of Education. The administration also made sure that Hall wasn’t assigned an unreasonable amount of administrative or DEI work. “We Dr. Candace N. Hall Dr. Candace N.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2024

As we’ve evaluated how best to comply with the legislation, I want to be clear that we’ve faced very difficult decisions,” the vice-president for student affairs, Lori McDonald, said in a statement. The law and subsequent guidance require a foundational change in how we approach student support, and we will follow the law.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

APRIL 12, 2024

SAAL's Dynamic 1st Quarter: Progress, Initiatives, and Community Engagement The journey of the Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) through 2024 has been nothing short of transformative and inspiring for me as President! I firmly believe this first quarter reflects our commitment to these values and our community.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 3, 2024

We hope our analysis has created a resource for future faculty designing syllabi, graduate students wondering what to read next, and for assessment professionals seeking to critically evaluate the direction of the field and practitioner professional development needs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Youngkin in his first act as governor issued Executive Order 1 that labeled the teaching and pedagogical use of DEI in history and other subjects as “divisive.” A member of the Youngkin Administration recently stated that “DEI is dead.”

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JULY 31, 2023

As you might have guessed, I spent most of my time in the Assessment track, but it was great to interact with other Student Affairs professionals focused programmatically on supporting equitable outcomes for historically underrepresented and minoritized college students. However, you can attend sessions from any track.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

AUGUST 23, 2023

Photo by Burst on StockSnap The Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) has been hard at play this summer. During this time, we have grown as an organization and currently have 1,345 members that are all vested in Student Affairs assessment across the nation and globe.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

MAY 25, 2023

For this reason and more, it was a pleasure to join in Dr. Divya Bheda’s SAAL Structured Conversation, “Exploring New Frontiers Together: Taking Equity Work to the Next Level in Student Affairs and Beyond.” As DEI becomes an institutional imperative, it is also important to question and acknowledge the way the initiative is framed.

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College for Creative Study

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By Katie Gaither – Director of Student Engagement – Office of Student Affairs Nearly 25% of CCS students are first-generation college students (otherwise known as “first-gens”)! Come find me in the Office of Student Affairs in the Yamasaki building!

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Several partners have shared anecdotes of students arriving to campus, moving into dorms, and abruptly withdrawing upon re-entering more social settings. As one of EAB’s DEI experts and researchers, it was concerning to see DEI so far down the list and suggests a deceleration in the urgency and importance of the work to be done.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Matt Bango on StockSnap In the ever evolving landscape of higher education, organizations such as Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) play a pivotal role in shaping the student experience as well as for those engaged in assessment. SAAL is committed to ensuring that equity is central to steering our direction.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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. Hardly anyone started out as student affairs assessment, but just ended up, for a variety of reasons, being really into it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. This helps identify gaps and tailor programs, such as the Academic Notice Program, which emphasizes support over penalties for students experiencing academic challenges.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

OCTOBER 9, 2024

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'm a first-generation college student originally from New Mexico. I want to help other students like me." Is that a job?"

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

I didn’t know about this thing called Student Affairs just yet, but I knew [there was] a way that I could work at a college and sort of do for other students—particularly first-gen, BIPOC students and Pell Grant students—what others had done for me. Who are we not serving well?

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Goucher DEI

MAY 22, 2024

In the fall, EIE is excited to build on the dynamic DEI commitments already established at Goucher by building social justice dialogue programming, strengthening our bias education, streamlining our reporting processes, and overhauling current DEI training, including mandatory training for faculty, staff, and students.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The DEI lineage stands out from the others in that it didn’t introduce new success metrics into the conversation. check out the data for student equity playbook Speculating on emerging lineages Evolution never stops, in fact it usually accelerates when the underlying environment in in flux and species need to change to keep up.

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EAB

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives will be central, as institutions aim for inclusive strategies. This led me to Student Affairs, where I found my niche in Student Activities. Storytelling and transparent impact reporting will continue to engage donors emotionally.

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Via's

JUNE 15, 2023

Once she realized she could work with college students as a career, she returned to school. Marisa earned a MEd in college student affairs administration at the University of Georgia (UGA) where she interned in the Office of Student Life and the Office of International Education.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When he was first asked to educate people on Islamophobia, DEI expert Dr. Amer F. Ahmed – who is vice provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Vermont – has been working in the field of diversity for over 20 years, educating, consulting, and training people about DEI matters, mostly focused on higher ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

higher education & student affairs, Ohio State University; M.LHR, human resource management, Ohio State University; and Ph.D., counseling & student personnel services, University of Georgia Career mentors: Dr. “When we talk about things like ‘in the margins,’. psychology, Ohio State University; M.A.,

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

His firm specializes in providing insights and resources on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Graduate Education. in Counseling and Student Personnel Services (College Student Affairs Administration) from the University of Georgia. So the front half of my higher education experience was in student affairs.

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EAB

JULY 18, 2023

We normally think about student success, or at least we historically have in terms of what I might describe as a three-legged stool. And that is part of our larger DEI conversation as well. We can think about a lot of different offices within student affairs. We can think about the Financial Aid Office.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Luke Wood, co-director of CCEAL and vice president for student affairs and campus diversity at San Diego State. Luke Wood, co-director of CCEAL and vice president for student affairs and campus diversity at San Diego State University Wood recommended that colleges begin trying to intervene no later than 18% into a course.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

Wood is currently San Diego State University’s (SDSU) vice president for student affairs and campus diversity and chief diversity officer. You have a president who is unapologetically equity-minded--and we know there’s a lot of resistance to DEI across the country,” he said. “I He’ll take over for retiring President Robert S.

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The LAUNCH Network, which begins with a two-week summer residential program prior to orientation, has already produced strong results, with past participants posting a 20% increase in retention over the first two years of the program.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 29, 2024

Lori McDonald, the University of Utah’s vice president of student affairs, reflects on the expedited process officials took to comply with the state’s new anti-DEI law. The University of Utah is one of many institutions in Republican-led states nationwide

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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Campus leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will reportedly not cut the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) positions despite demands to do so by Republican lawmakers.

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University Business

JUNE 16, 2023

Conservative think tanks Manhattan Institute and Goldwater Institute have helped shape GOP lawmakers’ rationale against DEI. He has since advised DeSantis through his dismantling of DEI across Florida’s state institutions. Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at Manhattan Institute, helped shape Florida Gov. However, Gov.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Staff are overwhelmingly left-leaning, often organized in unions that are overt allies of the Democratic Party, and pursue Title IX and DEI initiatives strongly favored by Democrats and vehemently opposed by Republicans. That effort will almost certainly evolve over time, but the basic elements are clear.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 has been a year notable for its ups and downs on the higher education landscape with the elimination of affirmative action and the implosion of President Joe Biden’s student relief program. Attacks on DEI and education The year, 2023, was another filled with state-level opposition to DEI in education.

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