Upcoming Opportunities

Check out this recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education on "The Conference Season in Student Affairs"

Committee Sponsored Events

Thursday, April 19th: "How to Deal with Difficult People"
     2- 3:30pm, Cumberland Room

Thursday, May 24th: Strategic Planning
     2- 3:30pm, MUC 103C

Webinars

Going Green: Using Online Tools to Create Paperless Processes
    Tuesday, March 20, 1-2pm, MUC 103C
    Presented by Campus Labs

Another Survey?!? Alternative Assessment Data Collection Methods
Date/Time: Thursday, April 26 at Noon CST
Location: MUC 308
Presenters: Angela Yancik Baldasare, Jen Meyers Pickard & Linda Scheu
Overview:
Are "assessment" and "survey" synonyms in your mind? This session will dispel the myth that to conduct a credible assessment, you must have students complete a lengthy survey by familiarizing you with a number of alternatives to surveys. We will also demonstrate how multi-faceted or mixed-method approaches to assessment can give dimension to our assessment results. Specifically, six alternative data collection methods will be described: document review, existing data, interviews, focus groups, observations, and one-minute assessments. The strengths and challenges of each method will be discussed and real-life examples of how these methods have been implemented in functional areas across a division of student affairs using will be shared.

Marketing Your Department with Social Media
Date/Time: Friday, May 4 at 1:00 p.m. CST
Location: MUC 103C
Presenter: Dr. Scott M. Helfrich
Overview:
Social media has become a new strategy for higher education institutions to market to prospective college students. Additionally, student life administrators are beginning to embrace social media as a way to market the multitude of student life programs and services that are available on our campuses. This webinar will teach college and university student affairs administrators how to utilize social media as a means of marketing and promoting their particular student life departments.

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Conferences

March 10-14, 2012: NASPA Annual Conference "Ignite Leadership, Influence Change" in Phoenix, Arizona

May 11, 2012: Memphis in May Student Affairs Conference

November 3-6, 2012: SACSA Annual Conference in Memphis, Tennessee