ED 387 (Student Affairs) Discussion Notes

1-10-09

I. Review of - ALWAYS: After Ed e-mails you, e-mail him a reply response

course confirming him ASAP.
outline - Email: Leaves a paper trail, be cautious with it.
- Ed arrives in Bay Area: Friday noon (best day to contact him)
- Departs Bay Area: Sat. afternoon after class
- Can call him on his cell/phone or arrive at Bannan 238 by Sat. 7:30
a.m.

- Required texts: 2 (will focus more on the Red text, Critical Issues by
Sandeen); the Yellow one is more of a professional resource); the
recommended one, “Points of View” – talks about Student Services
(as a career) – can order directly from NASPA (philosophical stmt that
the profession has written about itself 3x) – Ed uses this Points of
View himself with his program directors in a day long activities: what
does it really mean to be a part of a student services program? To
evaluate student svcs program. How can we really relate better to
our students?

NASPA Nori: What is NASPA?: Nat’l Assn for Student Personnel Administrators.
Christine: Focuses on student affairs relations; took a webinar on student
violence; publications. Stanford sponsored and recommended. Have a
conference in Seattle, in March.
Ed: access to publications; have a professional liability insurance (Ed has
found this useful – it’s wise to have a personal supplemental insurance policy,
$1mn policy; issues of neglect/liability); regional organizations of NASPA
(nat’l, state, and local); “drive-ins”; great job placement resources

ACPA ACPA: geared to counselors; a lot of ppl in NASPA are in ACPA (American
College Personnel Assn)

Other resources:
ASHE
The Chronicle - jobs
Community College Week
Jossey-Bass Publications/Mailers (monographs)
John Wiley & Sons (New Directions series: most current stuff you can get
about the profession)

Course requirements & assignments:

1) Student Services Organizational Report
- Explain the organization and how it is organized

2) Special reports – does not apply to us

3) Major project: Due Feb. 8, 2009
 - Examples: financial aid office (recruiting and rewards, how that
affects student enrollment); career office (organization, reach out,
MBA, Law school, graduate school coordination); res life (SCU split
facilities and programming to 2 different ppl – what are the strengths
and weaknesses of this policy); student activities (how they deal w/
student activities from a campus ctr standpoint vis-à-vis res life)
- Paper: how is this program organized? How does it relate to other
programs? How does it work on a daily basis? How does it relate to vp
programs? analyze, what’s working and what’s not, make some
recommendations
- Logistics: work with a partner, same topic; review topics (research
and analysis on course outline to cover the following) for paper;
interview ppl (individuals in student services; students involved in the
programs related to the student services)

Our project idea (Thai, Nori, Yutaka, Jeanie): Multicultural issues

and diversity – Mission of diversity (dissect specific issues; coordination of
issues) – EOP Program, re-entry
- To what extent is this part of the institutional mission: is it lip service,
do they walk the talk?
- School: SJSU
- Issues of access; retention; probability of success of student
- Nori: Disability
- Yutaka: LGBT
- Thai: LGBT
- Jeanie: 1st generation
II. Post-Lunch - 1937: “Student Personnel point of view”: Needed to develop the
“whole” person, not just the academic
Critical -prior to this, colleges were segregated (primary for gentleman); there
Issues for was no cross-fertilization; “silos”; religious – classics
Student - 1862: Morrill Land Grant – explosion of the public university “state”
Affairs system
(Sandeen, - Junior colleges: first began in 1902, as an extension of high schools
Arthur) (Joliet college)

Ch. 1 -in loco parentis: university is responsible “in absence of the parents”

-Why a dean of men and a dean of women? Students segregated by gender

(Dean of Students didn’t become formalized until the 1960s)

- (p. 7) Major difference(s) b/t 1937 statement and the 1989 statement
(student personnel point of view): social issues, preparing citizens,
community (university has groups);
- (p.4): according to Sandeen, the purpose of student affairs was
originally founded to support the academic mission of the college (the
classroom teaching)
- (But during budget cuts, financial crises – student affairs and student
services are usually one of the first areas to get cut. Research shows
that college students only spend 20-30 percent of time in the
classroom.)