Student Affairs Administrators Research Articles

Reform and Innovation Path of Student Affairs Administration System in Colleges and Universities under the Student-Oriented Concept—Based on the Textual Analysis of “Regulations on the Administra-tion of Students in Ordinary Colleges and Universities”

Reform and Innovation Path of Student Affairs Administration System in Colleges and Universities under the Student-Oriented Concept—Based on the Textual Analysis of “Regulations on the Administra-tion of Students in Ordinary Colleges and Universities”

Coaching program sets struggling students up for success

BOSTON — When student affairs staff at Texas State University wanted to boost student retention and graduation rates, they decided to focus on students on academic probation and in developmental education courses. According to Victoria Black, Associate Dean for Student Services at Texas State University, 20% of first‐year students find themselves on academic probation and 75% of those students don’t get into good academic standing, lose their financial aid, and thus have to leave the institution. To set those struggling students on a path to success, staff developed a success coaching program, resulting in improved GPAs for at least 50% of students who received success coaching at least three times. Also, about 75% of students who received coaching at least two times described the program as helpful, Black said during a presentation at the annual conference for NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Students' Heavy Use Of Internet Gaming And Addiction: An Online Interview Study

This study aims to investigate the impacts of online video gaming addiction among young students in light of the growing concerns regarding how often children and early adolescents in school and colleges spend time playing online video games. This study used a qualitative research design with in-depth interviews and drew on the theory of online gaming addiction. For the purpose of facilitating an interdisciplinary understanding of Internet gaming heavy usage, addiction, and its possible effects, it provides in-depth online interviews with student subjects. Both one-on-one and group chatroom interviews with a total of 30 participants were conducted. Five key topics emerged from the examination of qualitative data: (1) Internet game use and causes; (2) Internet game features; (3) Effects of Internet gaming Overuse; (4) Controlling Internet gaming Use; and (5) Coping with Internet gaming Withdrawal. Each section includes discussions, explanations, examples, and quotes from various themes. Additionally, covered are student affairs administrators' implications and potential avenues for future research.

Student Development Theory and the Transformation of Student Affairs in the 1970s

AbstractStudent development theory (SDT) is a diverse corpus of academic and popular psychology with real-world application to the maturation of college and university students. It originated during the campus upheavals of the 1960s as part of a collective effort to reconcile restive students to mass higher education and modern technological society. Then, in the 1970s, SDT was implemented and refined by an ambitious generation of student affairs professionals eager for institutional influence and academic legitimacy. By providing an animating moral and intellectual purpose to the bureaucratic sundering of student affairs divisions from academic affairs divisions, SDT abetted a lasting institutional and cultural change in the organization of the modern university circa 1970. As a discourse of therapeutic empowerment, SDT has had an enduring influence on the daily practice of student affairs administration in the five decades since.

Coaching program sets struggling students up for success

BOSTON — When student affairs staff at Texas State University wanted to boost student retention and graduation rates, they decided to focus on students on academic probation and in developmental education courses. Knowing that 20% of first‐year students find themselves on academic probation, and 75% of those students don’t get into good academic standing, so they lose their financial aid and have to leave the institution, according to Victoria Black, Associate Dean for Student Services at Texas State University. To set those struggling students on a path to success, staff developed a success coaching program, resulting in improved GPAs for at least 50% of students who received success coaching at least three times. Also, about 75% of students who received coaching at least two times described the program as helpful, Black said during a presentation at the annual conference for NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Perspectives from the South America Region

AbstractWriters of this article share their seminal work of creating the Latin American Region (LAC) as part of the United States NASPA‐Student Affairs Administration in the Higher Education Association's Global Division. Webinars, exchanges, conferences, some research initiatives, and a new student affairs administration minor as part of a higher education master's degree are beginning to shape the work of student affairs in South America.

Navigating privacy tensions when responding to online aggression at postsecondary institutions

AbstractPostsecondary institutions have a legal responsibility to ensure that students have access to a safe learning environment. While institutions adopt policies and hire administrators to protect students from harm, many are underprepared to support students when these harmful incidents happen online. This is of increased concern now that online aggression is pervasive across universities worldwide. While faculty, administrators and students agree that online aggression is a significant issue and that institutions ought to provide prevention and response services, there is concern that these efforts might violate privacy norms. We used the theory of privacy as contextual integrity (CI) to explore the tensions that postsecondary students and staff perceive regarding student privacy when responding to incidents of online aggression. To do so, we conducted focus groups with undergraduate students and student affairs administrators from a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the Mid‐Atlantic USA. Our analysis surfaced three considerations that inform students' and staff's decision to report an incident of online aggression: their closeness to the person making the post, their perception of the online post content as a real threat and their knowledge of an authority figure who could help resolve the situation. We used CI theory to explain how these considerations can inform institutional policy, practice and future research. Practitioner notesWhat is already known about this topic Online aggression is a pervasive issue at postsecondary institutions worldwide that can contribute to psychological, academic and developmental issues. Postsecondary students and staff are unsure of how to respond to incidents of online aggression. There is a gap in policies and procedures for responding to online aggression at postsecondary institutions. What this paper adds A novel use of Nissenbaum's (2010) theory of contextual integrity to understand students' and staff's perceptions of privacy. Students' and staff's decisions to intervene or report an online aggression incident are determined by their relationship to the perpetrator, the severity of the social media post and their knowledge of who to tell on campus. Students and staff are reluctant to inform the police out of fear of violence against the perpetrator. Implications for practice and/or policy Raise awareness about responding to online aggression incidents. Implement online bystander intervention training programs to increase awareness and self‐efficacy to intervene in unclear situations. Develop clear policies regarding online aggression, as well as a trustworthy procedure for how to respond.

Gain insight into four key trends in fraternity, sorority life

BOSTON — Across institutional types, the fraternity and sorority experience has been rapidly changing, according to longitudinal data gathered by the research team at Dyad Strategies LLC. To help you understand these changes so you can be prepared to address them, Gentry McCreary, Ph.D., CEO, and Managing Partner at Dyad Strategies LLC, gave a presentation at the annual conference for NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Know your rights before you discuss your religious beliefs at work

BOSTON — Although some higher education administrators and faculty members have the desire to express their religious/spiritual beliefs in the workplace, they tend to hesitate to do so because they fear being pigeonholed or thwarted or becoming a source of controversy, and they often misunderstand their legal rights in this area. That's according to Christy Moran Craft, Ph.D., Professor, and Department Chair at Kansas State University, who gave a presentation at the annual conference for National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Know your rights before you discuss your religious beliefs at work

BOSTON — Although some higher education administrators and faculty members have the desire to express their religious/spiritual beliefs in the workplace, they tend to hesitate to do so because they fear being pigeonholed or thwarted or becoming a source of controversy, and they often misunderstand their legal rights in this area. That's according to Christy Moran Craft, Ph.D., Professor, and Department Chair at Kansas State University, who gave a presentation at the annual conference for National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Coaching program sets struggling students up for success

BOSTON — When student affairs staff at Texas State University wanted to boost student retention and graduation rates, they decided to focus on students on academic probation and in developmental education courses. Knowing that 20% of first year students find themselves on academic probation, and 75% of those students don’t get into good academic standing, and so they lose their financial aid and have to leave the institution, according to Victoria Black, Associate Dean for Student Services at Texas State University. To set those struggling students on a path to success, staff developed a success coaching program, resulting in improved GPAs for at least 50% of students who received success coaching at least three times. And about 75% of students who received coaching at least two times described the program as helpful, Black said during a presentation at the annual conference for NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Know your rights before you discuss your religious beliefs at work

BOSTON — Although some higher education administrators and faculty members have the desire to express their religious/spiritual beliefs in the workplace, they tend to hesitate to do so because they fear being pigeonholed, thwarted, or becoming a source of controversy, and they often misunderstand their legal rights in this area. That's according to Christy Moran Craft, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair at Kansas State University, who gave a presentation at the annual conference for NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Gain insight into 4 key trends in fraternity, sorority life

BOSTON — Across institutional types, the fraternity and sorority experience has been rapidly changing, according to longitudinal data gathered by the research team at Dyad Strategies LLC. To help you understand these changes so you can be prepared to address them, Gentry McCreary, Ph.D., CEO, and Managing Partner at Dyad Strategies LLC, gave a presentation at the annual conference for NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Understand your rights before you discuss your religious beliefs at work

BOSTON — Although some student affairs professionals and faculty members have the desire to express their religious/spiritual beliefs in the workplace, they tend to hesitate to do so because they fear being pigeonholed, thwarted, or becoming a source of controversy, and they often misunderstand their legal rights in this area. That's according to Christy Moran Craft, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair at Kansas State University, who gave a presentation at the annual conference for NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Know your rights before you discuss your religious beliefs at work

BOSTON — Although some higher education administrators and faculty members have the desire to express their religious/spiritual beliefs in the workplace, they tend to hesitate to do so because they fear being pigeonholed, thwarted, or becoming a source of controversy, and they often misunderstand their legal rights in this area. That's according to Christy Moran Craft, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair at Kansas State University, who gave a presentation at the annual conference for NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

The Lived Leadership Experience of Women Senior Student Affairs Administrators

This qualitative study grounded in feminist theory uses narrative inquiry to explore the stories of 26 senior women student affairs leaders. We tell the collective story we heard participants bring forward by describing plotlines that reverberated across their accounts. We call these plotlines: Experiencing Communication through Gendered Problematic Frames, Emotional Labor, and Impact on Career Trajectory. The collective narrative offers current and future administrators a better understanding of how women leaders navigate their roles and the gendered nature of leadership.

Academic advising and the lessons of the civil rights and social justice campus movements

ABSTRACT The changing campus demographics following World War II and the U.S. Black Student Movement of the 1960s unified and influenced the values of academic advising and student support services. This article argues that this context of U.S. college civil rights protest resulted in the call for more inclusive student support services that combined social work, counselling, social justice, and academic knowledge. Academic histories like Martha Biondi’s comprehensive Black Revolution on Campus and Ibram Rogers’s The Black Campus Movement document well the call for Black counsellors, trained social workers, and academic coaches at campuses on the east and west coasts during the Era of Protest. This study adds to these representations by looking at this history through the lens of a midwestern U.S. flagship, urban campus. Academic and student affairs administrators are taking note of the new generation of undergraduate students and their penchant for protest, especially regarding the Black Lives Matter movement spurred by the tragic deaths of college-aged and college-bound young Black men like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown that has strengthened during the pandemic after the murder of George Floyd. .

Sustainable career and employability of student leaders in China.

Research has shown that most employers prefer employing graduates with student leadership experience in colleges and most of the student leaders have sustainable development in their careers in China. Compared with students without leadership experience, student leaders are easier to get promotion and development opportunities in the workplace. To discuss this question, researchers chose employers, student leaders, and teachers as research participants in an effort to answer the question of why employers prefer graduates with experience being student leaders. This study focuses on what key competencies student leaders possess and how their competencies can match the capability requirement of employers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 9 outstanding student leaders, 4 class teachers, 2 student affairs administrators, and 8 human resource managers from two vocational colleges in Beijing. We find that student leaders have strong social competence, emotional competence, action competence, responsibility, and resilience which employers value and these competencies are essential to career development in the workplace. These competencies are considered to be helpful to support student leaders to adapt to the real work environment quickly and achieve career success.

A Comparative Study on the Role Positioning of Student Affairs Administrators in Chinese and American Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of Historical Logic

A Comparative Study on the Role Positioning of Student Affairs Administrators in Chinese and American Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of Historical Logic

Views from the middle: Racialized experiences of midlevel student affairs administrators.

Views from the middle: Racialized experiences of midlevel student affairs administrators.