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Areas of Strength

  1. Crisis management

  2. Student conduct

  3. Student development theory

  4. Issues of diversity

Areas of Growth

Strengths

  1. Assessment

Limitations

  1. Fundraising and development

  2. International context of higher education and student affairs

Deficiencies

  1. Issues of disabilities

  2. Retention and persistence models and strategies

Knowledge Evaluation

 

While completing both my undergraduate and graduate work, I have developed a number of knowledge areas within the field of student affairs. As I prepare for my future career, there are still areas I aspire to enhance. In order to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses, I will shared my knowledge self-evaluation and then described my professional plan for developing at least five knowledge areas within the next three years. Below is a highlight of the content presented in my paper. To read the full paper click here.

 

Year One

  • Join the Assessment and Evaluation Knowledge Community in NASPA

  • Review materials from assessment course

  • Learn about the processes and programs present at new institution

Year Two

  • Read a Culture of Evidence in Student Affairs

  • Attend the 2016 NASPA Assessment and Persistence Conference

  • Create/improve assessment processes for residential programs

Year Three

  • Apply for a NASPA Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Knowledge Community Assessment and Research Grant to perform research

  • Read Promoting Reasonable Expectations

 

Assessment.

Issues of Disabilities.

 

Year One

  • Build relationship with disability services at new institution

  • Review the Disability Compliance for Higher Education website

  • Read 10 articles in the Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability

Year Two

  • Read A Student Affairs Guide to the ADA and Disability Issue, Beyond the Americans with Disability Act, & College student Mental Health

  • Attend the BACCHUS area conference

  • Review current policies and procedures at current institution to ensure compliance

Year Three

  • Volunteer to complete a collateral assignment in the Office of Disabilities

  • Interview 5 different Directors of the Office of Disabilities to compile relevant references

  • Present a webinar of a specific disability

     

 

Year One

  • Maintain ASCA membership

  • Examine the student conduct process of new institution

  • Review current laws

Year Two

  • Attend Gehring Academy on the residential track

  • Become an active member in ASCA

  • Take a Law in Higher Education course

  • Review current laws

​Year Three

  • If possible, suggest a Conduct Code review and request to spearhead the committee

  • Review current laws

  • Create a creative sanctions list separated by outcomes and assessments

Student Conduct.

Professional Development Plan

 

Year One

  • Read all relevant retention and persistence models and strategies and create a cheat sheet

  • Learn about the processes and programs present at new institution

  • Identify unsuccessful programs and areas needing improvement (e.g. first year student retention)

​Year Two

  • Read about the 12 DEEP schools and identify how characteristics influencing retention and persistence

  • Start mapping out adjustments to current programs and outlining new programs based on retention and persistence

​​Year Three

  • Attend the 2017 ASHE and bring back ideas for improving programs

  • Complete site visits to institutions with successful residence life departments who are retaining students

  • Write a white paper explaining what was learned and a detailed suggestion for steps to improvement

     

Retention and Persistence Models and Strategies.

 

Year One

  • Maintain NASPA membership

  • Review materials from multicultural class

  • Read Creating Inclusive Campus Environments for Cross-Cultural Learning and Student Engagement

  • Maintain membership the African American Knowledge Community

     

Year Two

  • Attend N-Core conference

  • Improve RA diversity training

  • Purchase the Game of Oppression and play it with Resident Assistants

  • Read Increasing Adult Learner Persistence and Completion Rates: A Guide for Student Affairs Leaders and Practitioners

Year Three

  • Become a leader within the African American Knowledge Community

  • Read 15 articles in the NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education

  • Create an on-going diversity development plan for student staff

     

Issues of Diversity in the United States.

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