Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In an exciting development, two prominent organizations in the higher education space, The Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) and Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) have joined together to enhance the landscape of higher education through collaboration and shared resources.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

OCTOBER 29, 2024

We are excited to announce the formation of the Consortium of Organizations for Student Affairs Assessment (COSAA), a collaborative effort across key student affairs assessment organizations. We acknowledge the challenges assessment professionals face engaging with the multiple student affairs professional organizations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Our first semester back on campus [fall 2021], we had a 30% increase in first-time personal counseling appointments,” said Dr. Jennifer Migliorino-Reyes, assistant vice president of student affairs at Bergen Community College. And an additional $21,739 is available to each school in grants for professional development. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2023

Delnita Evans dreams of being a dean because she wants to help underrepresented students succeed. “I We weren’t graduating,” said the master’s candidate in higher education student affairs at the Morgan State University School of Education & Urban Studies. I saw that people that looked like me did not matriculate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

Professional development programs: Once high-potential individuals are identified, strategic professional development programs should be implemented to enhance their leadership capabilities. The process may involve a combination of performance appraisals, interviews, and feedback from supervisors and colleagues.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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. These valentines show how creative, personalized approaches can make professional development both engaging and impactful. Parnell, A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Despite her vice president title, her role had morphed into a mix of event planning and student affairs tasks, far removed from the strategic DEI leadership she had envisioned. Seek Support from Professional Networks and Organizations. Professional networks and organizations offer invaluable support for CDOs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. In Fall 2022, our first faculty mentor pairings were made,” says Ben Telesca, vice president for student affairs, SRSU.

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The Student Affairs Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The VCU Division of Student Affairs (DSA) was recently named one of the Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education and in collaboration with the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). Aaron Hart, Vice President of the Division of Student Affairs, and Brooke Berry, J.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

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.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 14, 2024

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.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 3, 2024

This is particularly felt for emerging professionals, who shared that they felt overwhelmed and confused when attempting to identify resources to help them on their assessment journey. Course Learning Outcomes There were 98 syllabi containing student learning outcomes (SLOs) for their courses, 706 in total.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Requests for external assistance tend to involve developing long-term plans for strengthening professional development, for example. Interest in capacity-building partnerships was particularly high at MSIs and community colleges, with 93 percent of MSIs saying they’d welcome this kind of support. ” The result?

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

MARCH 28, 2023

Source: [link] Education and assessment have always been an integral part of my professional life. I earned a BA from a teacher's college to become a secondary school teacher, followed by a master's in educational administration and a PhD in higher education and student affairs with a secondary focus on inquiry methodology.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Student Affairs Assessment brings so much value and opportunity to our students and institutions and I am committed to moving our profession forward within the higher education community. At my current institution, the mission of my unit is to build a culture of assessment throughout the division of Student Affairs.

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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)

AUGUST 21, 2024

As we reach the midpoint of the year, the Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) Board has taken a moment to reflect on our strategies, goals, and the practice of what we preach. As student affairs assessment professionals, we know that reflection is not just a practice but a necessity.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In a previous blog post , I recommended assessment professionals develop four documents that can help to guide their work. More to the point, these documents also offer a consistent source of reflection for professionals at the end of the year and a springboard for using data in practice.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

MARCH 14, 2023

To take a leadership role in Student Affairs assessment, you have to be a pretty interesting character. First, you have to want to work for students as an advocate in advancing their experience. I’ve found tangible resources and professional development opportunities available when I needed them the most.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

APRIL 25, 2023

While the question was intended for someone currently working in student affairs assessment, it gave me pause to reflect on what prepared me to be a professor. One part about being a student affairs assessment coordinator I enjoyed most was learning about the various functional areas in the division.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

APRIL 25, 2023

Guest bloggers self-submit one-time interest pieces offering perspectives on student affair assessment, issues in assessment, assessment advice, reflections on Structured Conversation topics, or other topics of their choosing. Submissions are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We have supported Latinx faculty in continuing professional development through HACU (Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities),” says CSULB President Dr. Jane Close Conoley. “We Recruitment materials, campus tours, and FAFSA open houses are bilingual as are several members of the student affairs staff.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

AUGUST 15, 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 had a pretty traditional route into student affairs. I don't know if I view myself as an assessment professional.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We have not undertaken these changes lightly, but deem them to be relevant and necessary given the state of our organization and the field of student affairs assessment. Thank you for your commitment to student affairs assessment and this organization. Wishing you all the best for the remaining time this year!

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Ellissa Brooks Nelson (she, her, hers) Divisional Director, Student Affairs Research & Assessment University of North Carolina at Charlotte In her current role: ~2 years Also serves as: SAAL’s Vice President of Profession Advancement Tell me about your journey into student affairs assessment. How did you get here?

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

When we first offered it, we thought it would be popular mostly with VPs of student affairs—compassion is such a central element to what they do. Melanie Overton: That’s true, compassion is central to their work and we’re definitely working with the VPs of student affairs in this seminar. Provosts, too. MA: Really?

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 31, 2023

Eight years ago, in 2015, SAAL put out a call for volunteers to compile topical resources to aid student affairs assessment pros. When I became chair for the PDC, this course leadership role solidified and - after serving my term as chair and passing the PDC torch - I assumed the position of Open Course Manager.

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Supporting Student Success

MAY 6, 2021

By: Dr. Cali Morrison. The old adage goes, April showers bring May flowers. Spring brings thoughts of renewal in so many ways. As academics, May typically signals the end of an academic year. As learners there is new hope in credentials earned and a future to pursue.

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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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EAB

APRIL 11, 2023

However, EAB's first student mental health and well-being collaborative found that 51% of collaborative participants reported feeling unprepared to pitch an idea for a mental health or well-being initiative to a donor.

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Parchment

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Rodney Lee Parks (00:26.106) This will be the sixth time in January that I’ve climbed Kilimanjaro and the 13th time that I’ve done the Inca Trail with students over Thanksgiving. So I’m one of those registrars, you know, a little bit of student affairs, a little bit of teaching, a little bit of registrar work.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In my recent interview with Paul Holliday-Millard at UNC-Charlotte, we connected over both having developed and piloted an equity-centered assessment professional development training for staff over the past year.

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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

Routledge/Taylor & Francis acquire US publisher Stylus The founder of Stylus Publishing announced in an email to authors on 2 March 2023 that the publisher will be sold to Taylor & Francis and operate as part of its Routledge division, as Doug Lederman reported for insidehighered.com on 3 March 2023.

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Campus Sonar

JULY 27, 2022

It’s not just making sure the budget is there to run enough ads; it's investing in professional development and measures, the type of budgets that are necessary to keep your group maturing. The other is more structural and operational—it’s a lack of investment for what it takes to run a sophisticated marketing communications team.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2024

The annual scholarship is meant for matriculating students in master’s or doctoral programs in student affairs or higher ed administration-related fields. is to provide support for African American, LatinX and other underrepresented groups through scholarships, grants and professional development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

student affairs, academic affairs, foundation, and alumni affairs) that dedicate resources, opportunities, and supports intended to: (a) undo legacies of educational disparities that Black/African American males have historically witnessed and (b) build capacity for students engaged in these communities (i.e.,

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JULY 19, 2024

June 26th to 28 th saw the convergence of Student Affairs folks at the ACPA Assessment Institute hosted in Costa Mesa, California. For those that have not been, the ACPA Assessment Institute is a professional development opportunity for all levels of assessment experience and roles.

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