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The Small Colleges and Universities Division provides leadership in higher education to promote understanding of small college and university missions, challenges, and opportunities. The Division ensures that NASPA's programmatic and policy directions appropriately respond to small institutions – defined as those enrolling less than 5,000 students – and their unique needs.
Welcome to NASPA’s Small Colleges and Universities Division! The SCU Division is dedicated to advocacy, professional development, support and information-sharing for colleagues in institutions who strengths lie in being small in size, but large in impact. The Advisory Board is eager to be responsive to your needs and input and provide resources that are relevant, timely and resonant with the unique characteristics, as well as challenges, of our types of institutions. We stand ready to listen, discuss, engage in dialog and offer value to you as a professional in the many and diverse ways that we are called upon to serve our students. We have a special responsibility as educators and we can enrich each other by candid communication, asking questions of each other and sharing best practices---hopefully SCU can be that resource for you!
This guide highlights sessions, programs, and events of interest to student affairs professionals at small colleges and universities during the 2019 NASPA Annual Conference in Los Angeles, California from March 9-13, 2019. Join us!
Student affairs professionals know that students are not absent from discussions about complicated and complex problems. While they might not readily join every conversation about every heated topic, they are certainly not indifferent to them all. Prominent recognition of students discussing, and perhaps disagreeing on, difficult subjects with other students can demonstrate a sense of community that is strengthened by, rather than shaken by, conflict and difference. It only further primes students for future public engagement in a world where conflict is inevitable and the outcomes of conflict are at least in part shaped by the resilience of those involved in and affected by it.
Social Learning Environments: Gen Z students want to be in on the action and collaborate with others to build their professional skills. Gen Z wants to see the finish line, working with others that can help them build the skills necessary to reach their goal is important to them. With community partners this may look different in the past because they will want to do things with their peers.
