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Empowering Change: Four Key Strategies for Supporting Student Affairs Administrators in the New Affirmative Action Landscape

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supporting administrators who directly engage with racially minoritized students is paramount because even before the latest rulings, these professionals shouldered a significant amount of the labor of protecting students in hostile environments. These administrators (e.g., We cannot support people if we do not know what they need.

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4 Challenges Derailing Academic Advisor Effectiveness (And How to Fix Them)

Civitas Learning

Many advisors and student success professionals feel overwhelmed, overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated by their institutions. Eighty-four percent of student affairs professionals say stress and crisis management lead to burnout. Solution: Build a Coordinated Student Success Coalition. Download the Guide.

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4 Ways to Partner with Faculty on Student Success

Civitas Learning

By investing time and resources into supporting faculty, higher education institutions can help bridge academic and systemic gaps by: Addressing Academic Gaps: Offering professional development helps faculty become stronger instructors, improves early alert communication, and enhances student outcomes.

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Student Success, Retention, and Employability – Getting Digital in a High Tech, High Touch Environment

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

Engagement is what creates a meaningful student experience. Every interaction that a student has with a university representative is important. Admissions professionals, academics, academic advisors, career services representatives, tutors, alumni officers, etc.

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Digital Engagement – How Technology Enhances the Student Experience

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

Seen as being one of the last “ uncluttered spaces ” for campus communication, text messages (via SMS) offer up several innovative ways to assist students with tasks like admissions questions, FERPA applications, mentoring , orientation/induction registration, and academic advisor introductions.

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How I’m Powered by Orange

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

When I first started looking at graduate programs in higher education/student affairs I had no idea that I would end up moving to Oregon. Eventually, I decided to apply for the College Student Services Administration (CSSA) program at OSU. I was the student affairs web specialist. It was surreal.

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

Supporting Student Success

This project was particularly important to me because of the impact CliftonStrengths had made in my life and how the tool was being used to support post-secondary students’ development. My job at the University allows me to work with students in career exploration from the very beginning of ‘what is a career?’ References.

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