Professional development programs for student affairs professionals.
• Introduction to the Student Development Field

• College Students with Asperger's Syndrome

• Supporting Online Learners

• Basic Supervision: Beginning the Dance

• Staff Motivation and Support

• Sustainability in Student Affairs

• Managing Your Career in Student Affairs

• Technology and On-line Social Networking

• The Secrets of Using Survey Monkey

Registration is now open for qualifying graduate students to register for the 2010 Virtual Case Study Competition. Students must be matriculating in a Masters level program in student personnel administration, higher education, or counseling for at least six credits during the Spring 2010 semester.

Prizes will be awarded to the top five teams in the Virtual Case Study Competition, with first place earning $150 per team member. The registration deadline is January 25, 2010. For more information visit studentaffairs.com/vcs.

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The 2009 College Cartoonist Contest has concluded and StudentAffairs.com is pleased to announce the following winners:

1st: Bill Richards - University of Georgia
2nd: Michael Neumann - Goshen College
3rd (tie): Jason Bitterman - Wesleyan University
3rd (tie): Mark Hershberger - Goshen College

Take a look at the winning entries...

James Lampley submits a Letter to the Editor entitled New Campus Security Measures: A False Sense of Security?

Terrell Strayhorn analyzes students' use of Facebook and MySpace relative to several demographic variables, including sex and race/ethnicity in Sex Differences in Use of Facebook and MySpace among First-Year College Students.

In Technology and Resident Assistant Training: Utilizing (Likely) Already Available Software to Improve R.A. Training and Cut Costs, Brandon Barile-Swain discusses how on-line R.A. training can be used as a cost-saving measure.

Jennifer Boyle, Rebecca Taylor, Buster Neece, Shawn Smith describe the workings of an on-line management system used by over 800 student organizations at Texas A&M in A Paperless Revolution: The Innovative Use of Technology for Student Organization Management.

In From a Distance: An Advising Team Model, Shelly Dixon and Linzi Kemp show how on-line advising works in distance learning.

Kevin Guidry cautions campuses on their use of required student participation in technology because many students still lack computer ownership and usage skills in The Digital Divide and the Participation Gap: Challenges to Innovation.

In Tweet, Tweet, Tweet: Student Affairs is on Twitter, Eric Stoller explains the use of the relatively new social networking phenomenon Twitter.

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