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The Journal of Technology in Student Affairs


Summer 2011 Edition



EDITOR'S NOTE

Well, some of you might have noticed that we have had a little gap in our production of issues. Since our last issue, we have changed the name of our journal – we are now the Journal of Technology in Student Affairs, and we have begun to discuss the possibility of changing to a peer-reviewed journal. Any suggestions that our readers might have on this topic are certainly welcome. Please feel free to send them directly to me.

Turning to the current issue, as you can see below, much of the content pertains to the growing use of on-line social networks by college campuses. Student affairs practitioners are often on the cutting edge of adopting new technology used by students, and some of those uses are described in the articles in this issue.

Gary D. Malaney
University of Massachusetts Amherst
malaney@educ.umass.edu


INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Sarah Jenness discusses how Facebook is currently being used to engage students, and she offers some recommendations to student affairs practitioners regarding how Facebook can be used to positively impact student learning and development in Rethinking Facebook: A Tool to Promote Student Engagement.

In Technologically Capable Armed Forces: Attributes of Graduates of the National Defense University of Malaysia, Jowati binti Juhary explains how the university utilizes new technologies to improve the capabilities of its graduates.

William Mallett shows how using an online social network has been a successful method for assisting and welcoming international students prior to their arrival on campus in The Use of an Online Social Network to Introduce and Connect Newly Admitted International Students.

In Are They Listening? Social Media on Campuses of Higher Education, Amy Ratliff discusses how social media are used by students, administrators, and staff members to better communicate.

Quincy Martin III and Doug Olson tackle the topic of increasing on-line social aggression of college students and what to do about it in College Cyberbullying: The Virtual Bathroom Wall.

The on-line magazine about technology and Student Affairs

Gary D. Malaney
Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Editor

Stuart Brown
StudentAffairs.com
Executive Editor

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