90-minute recording of live online seminar available in CD or transcript format. Includes program handouts.

By participating in this seminar, you'll learn to:
• Explore various organizational models for student affairs by institutional type and mission
• Determine which student affairs model best fits your institution’s mission
• Entertain the possibility of re-tooling your student affairs departments to increase student engagement and learning gains
• Interact through a virtual medium with student affairs colleagues and professionals

Meet the presenter:

Kathleen Manning, an associate professor, has taught at the University of Vermont since 1989 in the Higher Education and Student Affairs graduate program. Dr. Manning received a Fulbright Fellowships to teach and consult at Beijing Normal University in China in 2003 and 2004 and Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including NASPA’s Outstanding Contribution to Literature/Research, the University of Vermont Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Teaching Excellence, the ACPA Annuit Coeptis Award, the NASPA Pillar of the Profession award, and NASPA Region I Distinguished Accomplishment Citation. In 2007, she was appointed as a NASPA Faculty Fellow.

Dr. Manning conducts research and writes in the areas of organizational theory, qualitative research methodology, and cultural pluralism. Published books include Where I Am From: Student Affairs Practice from the Whole of Students’ Lives (2007, with Sue Borrego), One Size Does Not Fit All: Traditional and Innovative Models of Student Affairs Practice (2006, with John Schuh and Jillian Kinzie), Research in the College Context: Approaches and Methods (2004, co-edited with Frances K. Stage), Rituals, Ceremonies and Cultural Meaning in Higher Education (2000), Giving Voice to Critical Campus Issues: Qualitative research in student affairs (2000), and Enhancing the Multicultural Campus Environment (1992, Frances K. Stage). Dr. Manning has a Ph.D. in higher education with a minor in anthropology from Indiana University; a M.S. and Ed.S. in counseling and student personnel services from the State University of New York at Albany; and a B.A. in biology from Marist College.

The CD contains an audio presentation with PowerPoint and can be viewed on any standard computer equipped with Windows Media Player.