Advancing Staff Excellence
 

Advancing Staff Excellence

Providing positive development of intellectual, professional, social & cultural growth of UAA Student Affairs staff members.

Cultivate your career in Student Affairs:

  • Find resources for enhancing your personal & professional development.
  • Share information across the division about ideas for advancing our profession and current issues facing Student Affairs.
  • Share educational and leadership opportunities.
  • Advertise pertinent trainings you are certified to offer to divisional departments.

To add information to this website, please contact Denise Eggers at andle1@uaa.alaska.edu

For more information about Advancing Staff Execellence in Student Affairs, please contact Dawn Dooley at andpd@uaa.alaska.edu

Training & Development Opportunities:

Safe Zone (pdf) - Please email safezone@uaa.alaska.edu or contact Maria Bonifacio at 751-7448 for more information.

Student Affairs Assessment - Interested in assessing your assessment skills? Complete the Assessor Competencies Rubric. Also, consider completing the ACPA ASK Standards Needs Assessment to identify workshops, brown bag sessions, and reading materials that will provide you with the most useful professional development.

Consortium Library resources related to Student Affairs and Assessment -a direct link to these materials will be available on the Library website in the future.  Here's a list of some of the materials that will be available for checkout - Student Affairs Library Resources

Article Highlight: Increasing Degree Attainment: Two Goals and Major Roles for SSAOs - By John H. Schuh and Jamie P. Merisotis, from NASPA's Leadership Exchange, Summer 2011 issue, page 14. 

Upcoming Webinars:

StudentVoice just launched its fall calendar chalked full of several webinars on topics, such as Assessment Fundamentals, Developing Learning Outcomes, Reporting Assessment Results, Utilizing Operational Benchmarking Data to Improve Programs and Resources, Rubrics, and Focus Groups. Staff are encouraged to visit the webinar calendar to learn more and sign up – http://www.studentvoice.com/app/training/WebinarsFall11.aspx.

The Office of Student Affairs has several webinars and brown bags coming up this semester to enhance your assessment skills and share new student data. Please see the Student Affairs Assessment Web site <http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/studentaffairsassessment/webinars-and-presentations.cfm>  for additional info. Sneak peek below. 

Information from Previous Webinars:

Changes to the 504 Direct Threat Standard for Suicidal Students
NaBITA has made this recording accessible on a cloud system so it may be downloaded and saved directly to your computer. Please go to http://webinars.ncherm.org/register.php to create a user account. You will received an email with instructions to activate your account. Once it is activated, please email Samantha Dutill, Associate Executive Director of NaBITA, directly at samantha@nabita.org so she can add the file to your account for your access.


Increasing Retention and Persistence of First-Year, Minority Male Students
Recording and Handouts


C.A.R.E. - Connect, Accept, Respond, Empower: How to Support LGBTQ Youth
Webinar audio recording with powerpoint
Powerpoint Slides (pdf)


Conducting Criminal Background Checks on College Students: Legal and Policy Considerations
To access this webinar's audio recoring, follow the link and type in the provided password.
Webinar Audio Recording Password: thirteen
Background Checks and the Admissions Process NACUA 2010 Final (pdf)
Dickerson SSRN Background Check (pdf)


Promoting the Development, Achievement and Persistence of Students from Diverse Backgrounds
Webinar Audio Recording - Promoting the Development, Achievement and Persistence of Students from Diverse Backgrounds