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Tiki Ayiku
202-265-7500, x1184
tayiku@naspa.org


Program Abstract

This year’s Community College Institute (CCI) will empower student affairs professionals, especially SSAO's and mid-level professionals, to demonstrate the value of student affairs work on their respective community college campuses. This highly interactive institute will partner nationally recognized community college leaders with participants to analyze the role of student affairs and to create strategies to demonstrate the value of student affairs by focusing on: professional competencies, assessment and learning outcomes, and accreditation.

Program Description

Goals of the Presentation:

  1. To inspire Student Affairs leaders to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to advance the value of student affairs work on the community college campus.
  2. To provide concrete knowledge and examples of application of professional competency areas for student affairs practitioners.
  3. To create a forum of current and future Student Affairs leaders to gather information from one another and experts in the field related to assessment and accreditation.

Specific Learning Outcomes:

  1.  Participants will gain knowledge of the key professional competency areas for Student Affairs practitioners described in Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Practitioners, a joint publication with NASPA and ACPA, and explore why it is important for Student Affairs professionals in specific roles at community college’s to be able to demonstrate these competencies.
  2. Participants will be able to apply the competency descriptions and levels provided in Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Practitioners, a joint publication with ACPA and NASPA, to articulate the value of hiring Student Affairs professionals in specific roles at the community college.
  3. With a specific focus on student learning outcomes, participants will review and apply examples of assessment models in Student Affairs to their own areas of responsibility. Participants will identify the value of utilizing data to support the allocation of resources to Student Affairs programs and to, in turn, articulate the financial benefit and impact of Student Affairs programs on student success at community colleges.
  4. Participants will gain a clear understanding of the role and value of Student Affairs in the accreditation process. Participants will review and discuss the accreditation process and the contribution of Student Affairs to an institution’s accreditation needs, specifically related to the over arching learning process of students as related to the institutions’ mission.

Program Format:

In keeping with the conference theme we have drafted four parts to our day long institute. They are as follows:

  1. Ignite- Inspirational and informative presentation about the value of Student Affairs at community colleges.
  2. Leadership - Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Practitioners, as applied specifically to student affairs leaders at community colleges.
  3. Influence – Strategies for using assessment to demonstrate the value of student affairs work and resource allocation with a specific focus on student learning outcomes.
  4. Change – Advancing change through collaboration and  partnership with a specific focus on the accreditation process.

Featured Presenter:

Dr. Maggie Culp, contributing author, Exceptional Senior Student Affairs Administrators' Leadership: Strategies and Competencies for Success.