Leadership education has become an essential outcome of higher education in the past decade and yet leadership development efforts vary greatly on campuses.
In response, the International Leadership Association (ILA) published -Guiding Questions: Guidelines for Leadership Education Programs.- The Guiding Questions document is a result of a five-year, collaborative process to create guidelines for leadership education programs. ILA's format of open-ended guiding questions is applicable to any student affairs practitioner developing a leadership learning program.
This...
Leadership education has become an essential outcome of higher education in the past decade and yet leadership development efforts vary greatly on ...
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among college students. Further, one in ten college students has considered suicide in the past year. Experts have called for a comprehensive, systemic approach to campus suicide prevention that addresses both at-risk groups and the general campus population.
Since 2005, 138 colleges and universities have received funding under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act to develop and implement campus suicide prevention programs. This volume highlights successful strategies implemented by grantee campuses. These approaches can serve as models to...
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among college students. Further, one in ten college students has considered suicide in the past year. ...
Given the shared interest between higher education and positive psychology in developing healthy and productive human beings, this issue explores how this new subdiscipline of psychology can contribute to the mission of higher education. It presents a variety of strategies for bolstering student learning and development.
The authors also draw from appreciative inquiry, which, like positive psychology, is based on studying strengths, but focuses on organizational rather than individual performance. During a time of daunting challenges, positive psychology and appreciative...
Given the shared interest between higher education and positive psychology in developing healthy and productive human beings, this issue explores h...
The college union is the living room and community center for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and visitors, and serves as a learning laboratory for students through employment, engagement, and leadership opportunities. Senior-level administrators and college union professionals need to be aware of the trends and issues facing college unions in the 21st century. This volume addresses implications for college unions of changing:
Student characteristics
Student engagement
Facility design and the creation of community
Fundraising
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The college union is the living room and community center for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and visitors, and serves as a learning laboratory f...
As student affairs units face increasing pressure to use data and evidence to inform planning and decisions, the research related to higher education has become more complex and, in some cases, less accessible. This issue aims to bridge this gap by drawing implications for student affairs programs and practices from the results of the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education, an investigation that followed thousands of college students at more than 50 colleges and universities. The authors identify research-based ways that student affairs practitioners can facilitate educational...
As student affairs units face increasing pressure to use data and evidence to inform planning and decisions, the research related to higher education ...
Since 2005, research on identity development, campus climate and policies, transgender issues, and institutional features such as type, leadership, and campus resources has broadened to encompass LGBTQ student engagement and success. This volume includes this enlarged body of research on LGBTQ students, taken in the context of widespread changes in public attitudes and public policies related to LGBTQ people, integrating scholarship and student affairs practice.
Specific foci include:
transgender identity development,
understanding intersections of sexual...
Since 2005, research on identity development, campus climate and policies, transgender issues, and institutional features such as type, leadership, an...
Take an in-depth look at current trends, opportunities, and challenges for senior student affairs leaders. This volume focuses on contexts for understanding student affairs leadership and experiences of contemporary student affairs leaders, including issues of concern, such as: - affordability and access, - student health and well-being, - diversity and inclusion, and - regulations and compliance. The volume concludes with a discussion of the similarities and differences in the data across the themes and questions and offers some propositions regarding the implications for current and future...
Take an in-depth look at current trends, opportunities, and challenges for senior student affairs leaders. This volume focuses on contexts for underst...
The use of critical and post-structural theories, such as critical race theory, intersectionality, and queer theory, to explore student development is relatively new. Most current research looks beyond the individual to how systems of oppression, such as racism, ableism, and heterosexism mediate student development and the nature of student development theory. This volume offers some of the most contemporary thinking about student development by:
