New Realities in the Management of Student Affairs

Emerging Specialist Roles and Structures for Changing Times

Ashley Tull, Linda Kuk

• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781579225759
• eBook ISBN: 9781579225780
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

Student affairs organizations are at a crossroads. They face expanding enrollments; a concomitant increase need for often more complex services; changing demographics; a growing cohort of non-traditional and first-generation students; shifting and more demanding responsibilities; and increased expectations from the greater campus community, parents, and external constituents. These challenges are intensified by the accelerating speed of advancements in technology, globalization, innovation, and student consumerism; and by the long-term reality of shrinking resources, and limitations on the ability to increase tuition and fees. This book shares alternative ideas about organizational design, and about ways to restructure roles and responsibilities to enable student affairs organizations to respond to these challenges and demands more effectively at a time of reduced resources. It also addresses the many emerging roles that student affairs organizations are increasingly being expected to address – such as IT, fund raising and development, external communications, human resources management and professional development, as well as research and assessment – and describes approaches developed by a variety of institutions. The contributors also pay attention to the solutions appropriate for smaller institutions, and for community colleges. They explore the various dimensions of change and offer frameworks to help student affairs leaders and practitioners to more effectively understand and manage the changes they are confronting; and describe ideas and solutions adopted by others within the profession.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• PART ONE INTRODUCTION, CONTEXTS, AND CURRENT PRACTICES WITH SPECIALIST ROLES AND STRUCTURES
• 1 THE CHANGING NATURE OF STUDENT AFFAIRS
• 2 THE CONTEXT FOR USING SPECIALIST ROLES AND MATRIX STRUCTURES IN STUDENT AFFAIRS ORGANIZATIONS
• 3 SURVEY OF CURRENT PRACTICES WITH SPECIALIST ROLES AND STRUCTURES
• PART TWO EMERGING SPECIALIST ROLES WITHIN STUDENT AFFAIRS ORGANIZATIONS
• 4 EMERGING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STUDENT AFFAIRS TECHNOLOGY OFFICER POSITION
• 5 EMERGING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STUDENT AFFAIRS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER/ DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
• 6 EMERGING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
• 7 CHANGING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE “ASSISTANT TO”
• 8 CHANGING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN STUDENT AFFAIRS HUMAN RESOURCES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• 9 EMERGING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STUDENT AFFAIRS CHIEF OF STAFF/DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION
• 10 CHANGING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF STUDENT AFFAIRS AUXILIARY SERVICES
• 11 CHANGING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN STUDENT AFFAIRS RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT
• PART THREE INSTITUTIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF EMERGING SPECIALIST ROLES AND STRUCTURES IN STUDENT AFFAIRS ORGANIZATIONS
• 12 FACILITATING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE TO INCORPORATE SPECIALIST ROLES AND MATRIX STRUCTURES IN STUDENT AFFAIRS ORGANIZATIONS
• 13 EMERGING ROLES AND STRUCTURES IN STUDENT AFFAIRS ORGANIZATIONS AT SMALLER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
• 14 EMERGING SPECIALIST ROLES AND STRUCTURES IN STUDENT AFFAIRS ORGANIZATIONS AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES
• 15 PREPARATION FOR NEW AND EMERGING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• 16 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
• ABOUT THE EDITORS
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX