Student Affairs Leader

Q: I completed my graduate studies in 2008, and since then I've worked for two private colleges. I have received good feedback regarding my work and I love student affairs. I have some opportunities now to assume more administrative responsibility in the field and am looking closely at advertised positions open at several colleges. I know this next move in my career is very important, and I want to make a good decision. What factors should I consider?

During a recent online seminar, two Clery Act experts fielded several questions about who the Clery Act regards as a campus security authority (CSA); an individual (or an office) who, upon learning of a crime, is required to report that crime for inclusion in the institution's annual crime statistics report. This article includes an edited selection of questions and responses from the online seminar.

To help single parents earn their degrees, Endicott College offers Keys to Degrees, a program that provides campus living opportunities, support services, and child care.

To many people in the West, the word "guru" conjures a stereotypical image of a wise, old hermit living at the top of a mountain and dispensing cryptic but sage insights. Indeed, those of us who have spent our lives in higher education have probably all known presidents, deans, or other administrators who were nearly as inaccessible, and who appear only briefly to announce a new policy or to overturn a decision. But those disengaged administrators almost never succeed as genuine leaders.

Balancing the needs of at-risk college and university students with the broader needs and goals of campus communities seems to get more challenging every day. Case management, a practice derived from the mental health field, can help campuses get help for students who need it. Student Affairs Leader recently interviewed two campus and mental health experts about how the case management approach might work at postsecondary institutions.

For several years, former Central Connecticut State University student Matthew Coster had insisted that someone copied almost word for word a paper he'd written for class. But CCSU came to another conclusion that hehad copied the paper from another student, Cristina Duquette and expelled him. In an effort to clear his name, Coster turned to the courts. But instead of suing the school, he sued the other student. In Coster v. Duquette (2010), the Appeals Court of Connecticut considered the students competing claims. Who had cheated? And what should the cost of cheating be for a cheater?