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Direct linkSchuh, John H. – New Directions for Student Services, 2014
The chapter discusses learning that has resulted from selected international professional development experiences.
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Professional Development, Cultural Awareness
Martin, Georgianna L.; McGee, Melandie – New Directions for Student Services, 2014
This chapter explores how students' interactions with student affairs professionals influence college outcomes with a particular focus on applying findings to student affairs practice.
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Student Personnel Services, Interaction, College Outcomes Assessment
Seifert, Tricia A. – New Directions for Student Services, 2014
This chapter synthesizes WNS research that examined moral character and concludes with recommendations for student affairs practice.
Descriptors: Moral Development, Values Education, Student Personnel Services, Pupil Personnel Services
Martin, Georgianna L.; Hevel, Michael S.; Barber, James P. – New Directions for Student Services, 2014
This chapter explores the concept of research-driven practice in student affairs and provides an overview of the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education.
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Research, Educational Practices, Student Personnel Services
Dey, Farouk; Cruzvergara, Christine Y. – New Directions for Student Services, 2014
Socioeconomic changes, technological advances, and generational trends have been the impetus behind every major paradigm shift in the delivery of career services in higher education during the past century, including the one taking shape today. This chapter will provide an overview of the changing nature and emerging trends that are shaping the…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, Higher Education, Student Personnel Services
Bloom, Jennifer L.; Hutson, Bryant L.; He, Ye; Konkle, Erin – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
Appreciative education is presented as a framework for leading higher education institutions, delivering truly student-centered services, and guiding higher education professionals' interactions with students.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learner Controlled Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Personnel Services
Watt, Sherry K. – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
This chapter provides guiding principles for designing and implementing successful multicultural initiatives. A rationale for why these elements transcend both higher education and student affairs settings is presented. In addition to providing guiding principles, this chapter includes advice for socially and politically conscious-minded…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Implementation, Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism
Watt, Sherry K.; Golden, Margaret; Schumacher, Lisa A. P.; Moreno, Luis S. – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
This chapter briefly overviews the Principles and Practices of the Circle of Trust® approach and shares an example of how those ideals informed how an instructor team facilitated a multiculturalism in higher education and student affairs course.
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Awareness
Livingston, Carolyn H.; Zerulik, Jonathan D. – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
This article describes the emerging role of assessment coordinators in student affairs divisions. It highlights opportunities and challenges in that role along with key findings from assessment projects. Specifically, this article has several purposes. The first is to identify the role of the assessment coordinator and the opportunities the…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Coordinators, Feedback (Response), Educational Assessment
Mitchell, Joshua J.; Ryder, Andrew J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
Dashboard systems are increasingly popular as assessment and performance management tools in higher education. This chapter examines the use of dashboards in student affairs, including examples of key indicators and considerations for developing and implementing these tools. The chapter begins with an overview of the origins of dashboards, from…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Student Personnel Services, Information Management
Biddix, J. Patrick – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
Assessment training, inclusive of design, methodology, and effective reporting, has become a topic of increased interest in student affairs, most
recently articulated by calls for competency (Bresciani and Todd, 2010)
reemphasizing existing curricular standards (Council for the Advancement
of Standards in Higher Education [CAS], 2002). Providing…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Graduate Students, Evaluation, Course Organization
Bresciani, Marilee J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
This afterword offers challenges and considerations as the assessment movement continues to develop. The author offers some simple considerations for readers to ponder as they advance their evidence-based decision making processes, and encourages others to use these methods within the context of recent neuroscientific evidence that learning and…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Accountability, Institutional Research, Student Personnel Services
Shivers, Melissa S.; McMillan, Sally J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
In July 2011, the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees approved a new
strategic plan called VolVision for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(UTK) campus. VolVision provides the road map for UTK to become a Top
25 university. For more than a year before the board approved the plan,
faculty and administrative leaders led focus groups and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Programs, Student Personnel Services, Strategic Planning
Blimling, Gregory S. – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
This chapter focuses on how the climate of accountability in higher education is compelling student affairs organizations to develop comprehensive assessment programs, the challenges faced in creating those programs, and ways student affairs professionals can meet those challenges. For the purpose of this chapter, the author has defined assessment…
Descriptors: Accountability, Higher Education, Student Personnel Services, Evaluation Methods
Schuh, John H. – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
What is a culture of assessment? According to this author, in a culture of assessment, staff members recognize that they must collect evidence systematically to demonstrate accountability to their stakeholders, and that they must use that evidence to improve. Fundamental to the concept is the author's back-of-the-envelope definition of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Student Personnel Services, Data Collection
