Creating Sustainable Careers In Student Affairs

Author : Margaret Sallee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 1003443834

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This book argues that the current structure of student affairs work is not sustainable, as it depends on the notion that employees are available to work non-stop without any outside responsibilities, that is, the Ideal Worker Norm. The field places inordinate burdens on staff to respond to the needs of students, often at the expense of their own families and well-being. Student affairs professionals can meet the needs of their students without being overworked. The problem, however, is that ideal worker norms pervade higher education and student affairs work, thus providing little incentive for institutions to change. The authors in this book use ideal worker norms in conjunction with other theories to interrogate the impact on student affairs staff across functional areas, institutional types, career stage, and identity groups. The book is divided into three sections; chapters in the first section of the book examine various facets of the structure of work in student affairs, including the impact of institutional type and different functional areas on employees' work-lives. Chapters in the second section examine the personal toll that working in student affairs can take, including emotional labor's impact on well-being. The final section of the book narrows the focus to explore how different identity groups, including mothers, fathers, and people of color, navigate work/life issues. Challenging ideal worker norms, all chapters offer implications for practice for both individuals and institutions.

Author : Margaret Sallee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000976922

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Creating Sustainable Careers in Student Affairs by Margaret Sallee Pdf

This book argues that the current structure of student affairs work is not sustainable, as it depends on the notion that employees are available to work non-stop without any outside responsibilities, that is, the Ideal Worker Norm. The field places inordinate burdens on staff to respond to the needs of students, often at the expense of their own families and well-being. Student affairs professionals can meet the needs of their students without being overworked. The problem, however, is that ideal worker norms pervade higher education and student affairs work, thus providing little incentive for institutions to change. The authors in this book use ideal worker norms in conjunction with other theories to interrogate the impact on student affairs staff across functional areas, institutional types, career stage, and identity groups. The book is divided into three sections; chapters in the first section of the book examine various facets of the structure of work in student affairs, including the impact of institutional type and different functional areas on employees’ work-lives. Chapters in the second section examine the personal toll that working in student affairs can take, including emotional labor’s impact on well-being. The final section of the book narrows the focus to explore how different identity groups, including mothers, fathers, and people of color, navigate work/life issues. Challenging ideal worker norms, all chapters offer implications for practice for both individuals and institutions.

Author : Sara B. Ewell,Joan Giblin,Joe McNabb
Publisher : IAP
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798887303970

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Taking Action by Sara B. Ewell,Joan Giblin,Joe McNabb Pdf

Action Research can empower all administrators in higher education to engage more effectively in resolving challenges in colleges and universities. Action Research is a powerful, localized methodology for impacting difficult and complex issues embedded in organizations. Higher education administrators regularly confront these types of difficult issues and hold the responsibility to solve these problems. This book explores the power of action research to impact the work of higher education professionals in student affairs.

Author : Linda Kuk,James H. Banning,Marilyn J. Amey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000977769

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Positioning Student Affairs for Sustainable Change by Linda Kuk,James H. Banning,Marilyn J. Amey Pdf

At a time of increasing student diversity, concern about security, demand for greater accountability, and of economic difficulty, what does the future hold for higher education, and how can student affairs organizations adapt to the increasing and changing demands? How can university leaders position existing resources to effectively address these and other emerging challenges with a sense of opportunity rather than dread? How can organizations be redesigned to sustain change while achieving excellence?As student affairs organizations have grown and become increasingly complex in order to meet new demands, they have often emphasized the expansion of their missions to the detriment of focusing on understanding their roles in relationship to other units, to reviewing their cultures and structures, and to considering how they can improve their effectiveness as organizations. This book provides the tools for organizational analysis and sustainability.Intended for practitioners, graduate students, interns and student affairs leaders, this book presents the key ideas and concepts from business-oriented organizational behavior and change theories, and demonstrates how they can be useful in, and be applied to, student affairs practice – and, in particular, how readers can use these theories to sustain change and enhance their organization’s ability to adapt to complex emerging challenges. At the same time it holds to values and perspectives that support the human dimension of organizational life.Recognizing the complexity of today’s organizations and the value of viewing them from multiple perspectives, this book follows the emerging practice of providing three general epistemological perspectives – the Positivist, Social Constructionist, and Postmodernist – for analyzing often paradoxical organizational structures, environments, and behavior.The book explores the environmental context of student affairs, and how the organization interacts with both the internal and external environments; examines the human dimension of organizations, through a review of individual attributes, human need and motivation, social comparison theory and organizational learning theory; presents the dimensions of structure and design theory and discusses why student affairs organizations need to think differently about how they organize their resources; considers the context and process of organizational change, and the dynamics of decision making, power, conflict and communication; addresses the role of assessment and evaluation; and new forms of leadership.Each chapter opens with a case study, and closes with a set of reflective questions.The authors have all served as practitioners within student affairs and now teach and advise graduate students and future leaders in the field.

Author : Peggy C. Holzweiss,Kelli Peck Parrott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0931654645

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Careers in Student Affairs by Peggy C. Holzweiss,Kelli Peck Parrott Pdf

Author : Bruce A. Jacobs,Jillian Kinzie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118405635

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Enhancing Sustainability Campuswide by Bruce A. Jacobs,Jillian Kinzie Pdf

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Many student affairs divisions are doing just that, leading the way in sustainability education by providing students with the knowledge they need to make a positive impact in their personal, civic, and professional lives. This sourcebook provides a primer on how to best organize specific programs and services as well as overall campus operations to address the critical challenge of sustainability. Presenting research, operational approaches, and personal insights, the authors enable readers to develop successful programs and services. Practical in nature, the content can be adapted into existing or developing programs for a seamless integration of sustainability into everyday campus life. This is the 137th volume of this Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly series. An indispensable resource for vice presidents of student affairs, deans of students, student counselors, and other student services professionals, New Directions for Student Services offers guidelines and programs for aiding students in their total development: emotional, social, physical, and intellectual.

Author : Genine Hook,Marie-Pierre Moreau,Rachel Brooks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000592160

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Student Carers in Higher Education by Genine Hook,Marie-Pierre Moreau,Rachel Brooks Pdf

This timely volume explores the ways that university institutions affect the experiences of student carers and how student carers negotiate the (often conflicting) demands of care and academic work. The book maps the experiences of student carers in academic cultures, exploring the intersectional ways in which gender, class, race and other social categories define who can take up a position as a student and a carer. It is framed by concerns of equity and diversity in higher education and ways that diverse people with wide-ranging care responsibilities are able to access and engage with degree-level study. The book promotes the idea of a more inclusive and equitable higher education environment and supports the emergence of more ‘care-full’ academic cultures which value and recognise care and carers. The book will be highly relevant reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students with an interest in higher education, social justice, gender studies and caring responsibilities. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students in sociology of education as well as higher education policymakers.

Author : Wilkerson, Amanda,Samuels, Shalander
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668460504

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Best Practices and Programmatic Approaches for Mentoring Educational Leaders by Wilkerson, Amanda,Samuels, Shalander Pdf

In today’s educational world, supporting graduate students from all backgrounds and ensuring they receive the best education possible is vital. Due to this, academic mentors and graduate student mentoring programs must provide equitable support within learning environments as a construct of social justice for supporting the success of advanced, underrepresented student learners. Best Practices and Programmatic Approaches for Mentoring Educational Leaders discusses empowered perspectives about conceptual and best practice approaches regarding mentoring and supporting doctoral students' success and considers the area of diversity and inclusion in higher education related to best practices in programming. Covering topics such as educational leadership, higher education, mentoring networks, and communities, this reference work is ideal for industry professionals, administrators, policymakers, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Author : Heather J. Shotton,Stephanie J. Waterman,Natalie R. Youngbull,Shelly C. Lowe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003824312

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Developments Beyond the Asterisk by Heather J. Shotton,Stephanie J. Waterman,Natalie R. Youngbull,Shelly C. Lowe Pdf

This edited volume serves as a follow-up to Beyond the Asterisk: Understanding Native Students in Higher Education, focusing on new scholarship, continued conversations, and growth in the field of Indigenous higher education. The landscape of higher education has changed significantly over the past decade; likewise, Indigenous higher education has grown into its own respective field with emerging scholarship that is written for and by Indigenous people. This book focuses on this growth, revisiting relevant topics in Indigenous higher education, while adding new and expanded research and insight from emerging scholars and practitioners, including chapters on Indigenous LGBTQIA+ and Two-Spirt students and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders. The voices of Indigenous scholars who are challenging the status quo in higher education have grown louder, and institutions and organizations have increasingly begun to respond. This volume is essential to continued conversations in Indigenous higher education and invites current, emerging, and future scholars to carry the conversation forward in respectful, responsible, and relational ways.

Author : Claudia Garcia-Louis,Sonja Ardoin,Tricia R. Shalka,Keon M. McGuire,Eugene T. Parker, III.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003852728

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Creating Space for Ourselves as Minoritized and Marginalized Faculty by Claudia Garcia-Louis,Sonja Ardoin,Tricia R. Shalka,Keon M. McGuire,Eugene T. Parker, III. Pdf

Creating Space for Ourselves as Minoritized and Marginalized Faculty moves away from conventional faculty success books by providing early career faculty with innovative perspectives about successfully navigating the professoriate, while humanizing their lived experiences and naming the unspoken. Through the use of interdisciplinary methods, such as creative artistic expression, testimonios, and personal narratives, chapter authors share experiences learned about surviving, thriving, navigating, and succeeding as early career underrepresented and marginalized faculty. Chapters discuss issues such as navigating workplace hostility, finding community beyond the academy, work–life balance, and crafting a scholarly identity, while also offering little-known tips about how to survive the professoriate while growing into thriving minoritized and underrepresented scholars. This book explores personal and institutional factors that are seldom discussed in other career success books, helping faculty as well as institutional leaders understand how we can, individually and collectively, create systems that invite and recognize humanity while ensuring successful career pathways for marginalized folks with doctoral degrees.

Author : Stephen Sterling,Larch Maxey,Heather Luna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136236938

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The Sustainable University by Stephen Sterling,Larch Maxey,Heather Luna Pdf

The direction of higher education is at a crossroads against a background of mounting sustainability-related issues and uncertainties. This book seeks to inspire positive change in higher education by exploring the rich notion of the sustainable university and illustrating pathways through which its potential can be realised. Based on the experience of leading higher education institutions in the UK, the book outlines progress in the realisation of the concept of the ‘sustainable university’ appropriate to the socioeconomic and ecological conditions facing society and graduates. Written by leading exponents of sustainability and sustainability education, this book brings together examples, insight, reflection and strategies from the experience of ten universities, widely recognised as leaders in developing sustainability in higher education. The book thus draws on a wealth of experience to provide reflective critical analysis of barriers, achievements, strategies and potential. It critically reviews the theory and practice involved in developing the sustainable university in a systemic and whole institutional manner, including the role of organisational learning. While remaining mindful of the challenges of the current climate, The Sustainable University maps out new directions and lines of research as well as offering practical advice for researchers, students and professionals in the fields of management, leadership, organisational change, strategy and curriculum development who wish to take this work further.

Author : Holley Henderson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118310397

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Becoming a Green Building Professional by Holley Henderson Pdf

A career guide for professionals in sustainable architecture, design, planning, development, and related consulting For those considering a new career or a career change focused on green and sustainable building and design, Becoming a Green Building Professional offers practical information on educational requirements, career options, guidance and tips, and first-hand interviews with green building professionals. Perfect for underemployed architects and other building and design professionals who want to reinvent and renew their careers, as well as students considering such a career, this is a vital and informative guide to a growing field.

Author : Ans De Vos,Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782547037

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Handbook of Research on Sustainable Careers by Ans De Vos,Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden Pdf

What is a sustainable career and how can individuals and organizations develop pathways that lead to them?Ê With current levels of global unemployment and the need for life-long learning and employability enhancement these questions assume a pressing s

Author : John H. Schuh,Susan R. Jones,Vasti Torres
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119049593

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Student Services by John H. Schuh,Susan R. Jones,Vasti Torres Pdf

The bestselling student affairs text, updated for today's evolving campus Student Services is the classic comprehensive text for graduate students in student affairs, written by top scholars and practitioners in the field. Accessible and theoretically grounded, this book reflects the realities of contemporary practice in student affairs. This new sixth edition has been updated throughout to align with current scholarship, and expanded with four new chapters on student development, crisis management, programming, and applications. Twenty new authors join the roster of expert contributors, bringing new perspective on critical issues such as ethical standards, campus culture, psychosocial development, student retention, assessment and evaluation, and much more. End-of-chapter questions help reinforce the material presented, and unique coverage of critical theoretical perspectives, counseling and helping skills, advising, leadership, environmental theories, and other useful topics make this book a foundational resource for those preparing for a student affairs career. The student affairs staff has the responsibility for a vast array of services and support roles for students on every type of campus. This book provides a thorough overview of the field's many facets, with invaluable real-world insight from leading practitioners. Understand the theoretical bases of development, learning, identity, and change Delve into the organizational frameworks vital to any institution Learn the historical context of higher education and the student affairs role Master essential competencies including professionalism, supervision, crisis management, and more As colleges and universities offer more and more services to an increasingly diverse student population, the responsibility for these programs falls to student affairs educators. The role requires a broad skill set, and conceptual grounding in a number of disciplines. Student Services provides the most complete overview of the foundations, philosophies, ethics, and theories that guide today's student affairs professional.

Author : Donald, William E.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668474433

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Handbook of Research on Sustainable Career Ecosystems for University Students and Graduates by Donald, William E. Pdf

In today’s modern world, students must understand the current business landscape when graduating and applying for jobs. Understanding how to market themselves and what companies look for when hiring is crucial, and they must be prepared for this evolving landscape. Due to this, it is critical to establish a sustainable career ecosystem. The Handbook of Research on Sustainable Career Ecosystems for University Students and Graduates draws together the fragmented fields of vocational behavior and human resource management in the context of early-career talent, captures the current state of the landscape and makes suggestions for what opportunities and challenges may lie ahead, and provides a consolidated view of establishing and maintaining sustainable career ecosystems. Covering key topics such as diversity, employability, and career shocks, this premier reference source is ideal for educational professionals, administrators, curriculum developers, business owners, managers, policymakers, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.