Participants will learn about innovative strategies for linking assessment and strategic planning that engage the campus community in leveraging data during uncertain times and fostering additional opportunities for student success.
Student Affairs Pullman
June 2024
The co-chairs of NASPA’s Assessment, Evaluation & Research Knowledge Community will share trends in student affairs assessment and discuss strategies to better inform improvements as well as evidence of the impact of student affairs on higher education.
Institutions have long embraced living-learning community programs for their positive outcomes, such as the value-added social and psychological benefits that students receive from participating in them. As institutional fiscal and human resources are stretched now more than ever before, leaders must connect these experiences to institutional student success and persistence priorities.
Predictive analytics models can be used to assist colleges and universities in meeting their strategic goals. Often, the focus of such models is on student academic and demographic data, but some of the most impactful experiences are co-curricular.
The higher education landscape has shifted considerably in recent years. Enrollment challenges, pandemic pressures, and more have led some institutions to undergo considerable changes in organizational structure, ranging from mass layoffs to mergers and even closure.
During moments of crisis caused by racism, many leaders – who oftentimes hold privileged and oppressor identities – face competing pressures to condemn racism and reiterate institutional values to create an inclusive community while continuing to please their donors who may disagree with addressing racism.
The Advising Success Network has created a tool to complement existing self-assessments and highlight emerging and evidence-based practices from HBCUs, HSIs, TCUs, Community Colleges, and other institutions that serve the ASN’s priority student populations: Black, Latinx/a/o, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, and poverty-affected students.
Achieving health equity at a college campus requires a collective effort, and students’ voices should be heard during this movement. This presentation will discuss the formation of a student organization, “Student Advocates for Well-being”. In this session, presenters will explore how this group of students raised awareness, held focus groups, and are writing a White Paper to address these student concerns.
Retention models share common elements such as student characteristics, institutional experiences, and academic and social integration. However, few specifically – basic needs (e.g., food, housing, transportation) and – belonging are essential components of student success.
Many of the issues occupying the minds of public policymakers around the United States are directly related to the day-to-day work of student affairs professionals.
Mentoring has long been viewed as an important avenue for supporting new professionals in student affairs. As higher education institutions experience significant challenges with recruitment and retention in student-facing positions, support for professional development is even more pressing.
The presenter will share research findings from a study examining student veterans’ sense of belonging within higher education institutions, the factors influencing their feelings of belonging, and strategies higher education institutions can utilize to enhance student veterans’ sense of belonging on campus.