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Spring 2008

Course 1: Parents: Partners in the Education Process or Obstacles to Overcome?
Summary: This course will explore the history of parental involvement. Participants will examine what messages are given to parents in today's high schools and how that is setting up parent expectations of the college experience. Participants will review books and web sites that are targeted at parents of college students. Discussion will focus on what college administrators can do to build a partnership with parents and get to the core of the "help them to help themselves message" that we are trying to promote.
Instructor: Beth Moriarty

Course 2: Complex Issues in Staff Supervision
Summary: Supervision is a challenging and rewarding responsibility. Strong and effective supervision requires effective leadership, organizational skills, and an understanding of institutional, state, and federal regulations. In this course participants will learn how to manage some of the thornier issues of staff supervision. Participants will be expected to become further familiar with their own institution's policies, regulations, and expectations related staff supervision.
Instructor: Tricia Nolfi

Course 3: Basic Supervision: Beginning the Dance
Summary: This course is geared to entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on supervision theory, supervising staffs and individuals, and working with challenging staff members. Supervision will be explored through lectures, readings, participation on a discussion board, and case studies. Participants will examine various staff issues and discuss techniques for positively managing challenging staff. Participants will also be expected to read a leadership or supervision book during the course.
Instructor: Darese Doskal-Scaffido

Course 4: Effective Performance Management: Getting Employees on the Right Track
Summary: Supervisors can help their employees achieve greater results through an effective performance management system. By utilizing clear standards, effective measures, and frequent performance feedback; both the employee and the organization will succeed. This course will focus on the supervision of full-time employees and will not spend a significant amount of time on the supervision of student employees or graduate staff.
Instructor: Tricia Nolfi

Course 5: Higher Education Mental Health Crisis: Are They The Best Years of their Lives?
Summary: This course will explore many different facets of mental health issues facing many of our students, how universities nationally and internationally are approaching the subject, educating their communities, working with parents and mental health practitioners.
Instructor: Maureen M. McGuinness, Ed.D, Associate Director for Student Leadership & Judicial Affairs, The University of North Texas

Course 6: College Students with Asperger's Syndrome
Summary: Aspergers Syndrome is an Autism Spectrum Disorder with growing numbers of students on college campuses. This population presents unique challenges to student affairs professionals. This online workshop will explore Aspergers Syndrome in-depth. Specifically, we will define Aspergers Syndrome, look at the increase in incidence, examine how students are affected on campus and in class, and discuss accommodations issues.
Instructor: Jane Thierfeld-Brown

Fall 2007

Course 1: Academic Integrity On Our Campus … What To Do?
Summary: Participants will be provided background information like that found above. We will then address various ways to adjudicate academic integrity issues properly, and how to go about facilitating positive and fruitful relationships between students, faculty and staff on this topic. The class will also define plagiarism and address how to recognize it and work with staff, faculty and students in preventing it.
Instructor: Shawn McGuirk

Course 2: Basic Supervision: Beginning the Dance
Summary: This three week short course is geared to entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on supervision theory, supervising staffs and individuals, and working with challenging staff members.
Instructor: Darese Doskal-Scaffido

Course 3: Navigating Diversity: A Shared Responsibility for Infusing Multicultural Competence into Everyday Practice
Summary: This six session course should particularly benefit those who are responsible for diversity training, strategic implementation of diversity goals, and those who are looking for ways to further the Multicultural Competence of staff members using a comprehensive framework.
Instructor: Randy McCrillis

Course 4: Face the Facts: Online Communities Are the Way College Students Communicate
Summary: This course will discuss online communities: issues involving them such as security, professionalism; how online communities can affect an institution of higher education and its employees; using online communities when it comes to issues of student conduct and hiring procedures; and how to use online communities to benefit your institution.
Instructor: Maureen McGuinness Clouse, Ed.D.

Course 5: Facilitating Student Diversity Education Experiences: A Guide for New Professionals
Summary: The purpose of this course is to teach new professionals how to develop and implement student learning experiences around diversity and social justice. We will explore learning and development theory, presentation preparation, and delivery.
Instructors: Debra Y. Griffith & Thomas C. Segar

Course 6: Understanding and Working with our Millennial College Students
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course explores information about the millennial generation and applies student development theory to working with millennial students. Divided into three, one week segments, the course covers understanding the millennial generation of college students, an exploration of how these students use technology in and out of the classroom, and applies student development theory to working with these students. Designed for student affairs staff and other campus professionals who work with college students, this course explores effective ways to understand and connect with this "next great generation" of young adults as college students.
Instructors: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.

Summer 2007

Course 1: Face the Facts: Online Communities Are the Way College Students Communicate
Instructor: Maureen McGuinness Clouse, Ed.D.
Summary: This course will discuss online communities: issues involving them such as security, professionalism; how online communities can affect an institution of higher education and its employees; using online communities when it comes to issues of student conduct and hiring procedures; and how to use online communities to benefit your institution.

Course 2: Understanding and Working with our Millennial College Students
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course explores information about the millennial generation and applies student development theory to working with millennial students. Divided into three, one week segments, the course covers understanding the millennial generation of college students, an exploration of how these students use technology in and out of the classroom, and applies student development theory to working with these students.

Course 3: Exploring College Student Development Theories
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: This college student development theory course is divided into three separate week long modules - Psychosocial Student Development Theories based on the work of Erik Erikson, Cognitive Structural Development Theories based on the work of Jean Piaget, and Person Environment and Typology Theories including Holland's theory of vocational types, Jung theory of personality type, and Kolb's theory of experiential learning.

Course 4: Demystifying Acadmic Affairs
Instructor: Susan Dunton
Summary: This six week professional development course will introduce academic affairs in simple, straightforward terms to student affairs professionals.

Course 5: A Student Affairs Professional's Guide to Data Reporting Using SPSS for Windows
Instructor: Mark Davenport
Summary: Although this course will be tailored to SPSS software, it is NOT strictly a “how to…” course on the use of SPSS. You will also be learning the best practices of statistical reporting

Course 6: Conditional Students of Color: Understanding Asian American Student Identity Development
Instructor: Dr. Mamta Motwani Accapadi
Summary: This course will focus on the challenges that Asian American students face on college campuses, factors which impact the racial identity development process, development theories and strategies, plus myths and stereotypes.

Course 7: Basic Supervision: Beginning the Dance
Instructor: Darese Doskal-Scaffido
Summary: This three week short course is geared to entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on supervision theory, supervising staffs and individuals, and working with challenging staff members.

Fall 2006

Course 1: Supporting Online Learners
Instructor: Anita Crawley
Summary: This course will cover the scope of online services, about what other institutions are doing to serve this population, and develop a resource to use at your institution. This course is designed for those in direct service Student Affairs positions

Course 2: Parents: Partners in the Education Process or Obstacles to Overcome?
Instructor: Beth Moriarty
Summary: This course examines what messages are given to parents in today's high schools and how that is setting up parent expectations of the college experience.

Course 3: A Student Affairs Professional's Guide to Data Reporting Using SPSS for Windows
Instructor: Mark Davenport
Summary: course is designed to give student affairs professionals knowledge and practical experience using SPSS to answer assessment-related and evaluation-related questions. No prior SPSS or statistical experience is required.

Course 4: Demystifying Acadmic Affairs
Instructor: Susan Dunton
Summary: This six week professional development course will introduce academic affairs in simple, straightforward terms to student affairs professionals.

Course 5: Planning Your Financial Future
Instructor: Steven A. Anderson
Summary: This course will focus on an overview of financial planning, developing a personal and family financial plan, an understanding of financial terms and investments options, and conclude with some suggestions on how to follow through with your financial plan and some suggestions to utilize in developing your financial future.

Course 6: Basic Supervision: Beginning the Dance
Instructor: Darese Doskal-Scaffido
Summary: This course is geared to entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on supervision theory, supervising staffs and individuals, and working with challenging staff members.

Course 7: New Professional Basics
Instructor: Darese Doskal-Scaffido
Summary: This one week short course is geared to new, entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on their entry into a professional position in student affairs. In particular, we will look at supervision, how to be a strong supervisee, building a support network on campus, networking in the profession and professional ethics.

Course 8: Understanding and Working with our Millennial College Students
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course explores information about the millennial generation and applies student development theory to working with millennial students.

Course 9: Conditional Students of Color: Understanding Asian American Student Identity Development
Instructor: Dr. Mamta Motwani Accapadi
Summary: This course will focus on the challenges that Asian American students face on college campuses, factors which impact the racial identity development process, development theories and strategies, plus myths and stereotypes.

Summer 2006

Course 1: Liability for student suicide: Recent law and policy developments
Instructor: Gary Pavela
Summary: Readings in the course will focus on topics identified in the courseoverview. Special attention will be paid to risk management perspectives, including potential liability for violating federal protections for students with disabilities. Participants will be asked to comment on the wisdom and possible features of an involuntary medical or administrative leave policy.

Course 2: Parents: Partners in the Education Process or Obstacles to Overcome?
Instructor: Beth Moriarty
Summary: This course will explore the history of parental involvement. Participants will examine what messages are given to parents in today's high schools and how that is setting up parent expectations of the college experience. Participants will review books and web sites that are targeted at parents of college students. Discussion will focus on what college administrators can do to build a partnership with parents and get to the core of the "help them to help themselves message" that we are trying to promote.

Course 3: A Student Affairs Professional's Guide to Data Reporting Using SPSS for Windows
Instructor: Mark Davenport
Summary: This course is designed to give student affairs professionals knowledge and practical experience using SPSS to answer assessment-related and evaluation-related questions.

Course 4: Supporting African American Students
Instructor: Mark Davenport
Summary: In this course students will learn about 1)Key factors in the college experience of African American students. 2) Theories related to African American student development. 3) College adjustment, satisfaction, and perceptions of African American students. 4) Persistence factors, marginality, and coping strategies related to African American students.

Course 5: Online Advising Workshop
Instructor: Anita Crawley
Summary: In this workshop students will explore academic advising resources and recommendations from the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET). Participants and the instructor will share how their institutions are delivering or planning to deliver academic advising at a distance. We will discuss the benefits and concerns of implemented online advising services.

Course 6: Check, Bet, or Raise: Are You Prepared to Deal with Campus Gambling?
Instructor: Dr. George S. McClellan
Summary: The course will feature three modules. The first module will include an overview of gambling behavior in society, the extent and implications of problem and pathological gambling, and a discussion of ethical and legal aspects of gambling issues. The second module will focus on three of the hottest topics in campus gambling: poker, sports wagering, and online gambling. The third module will offer participants information on helping assure their campuses are prepared to address gambling on campus.

Course 7: Defining the Scope and Limits of Student Freedom of Expression?
Instructor: Gary Pavela
Summary: This course examines the law and policy issues related to defining the scope and limits of student freedom of expression at public and private institutions of higher education.

Course 8: Demystifying Acadmic Affairs
Instructor: Susan Dunton
Summary: This two week professional development course will introduce academic affairs in simple, straightforward terms to student affairs professionals.

Course 9: Supporting Online Learners
Instructor: Anita Crawley
Summary: In this course students will explore resources from the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET), discuss resources their institutions currently deliver at a distance and identify priorities for additional services that might be made available to online students.

Course 10: Facebook.com on your Campus...Friend or Foe?
Instructor: Shawn McGuirk
Summary: Participants will be given some historical information related to facebook.com. We will then move on to reviewing the different components of the facebook (and maybe one or two other related sites if there is an interest) and its intricacies. From there, participants will proceed to case studies examine institutional policy, student behavior and administrative responses. We will attempt to discern if laws or policies are being violated, and if so, what an institution can do about it (if anything).

Course 11: Campus Programs & Activities for Diverse Populations
Instructor: Gailda Davis
Summary: In this course, participants will explore models for campus programming and activities. These models will be examined in relation to student development theories and concepts. We will then look at effective methods to plan and implement programs designed to reach a diversified student body.

Course 12: Planning Your Financial Future
Instructor: Steven A. Anderson
Summary: The course will focus on an overview of financial planning, developing a personal and family financial plan, an understanding of financial terms and investments options, and conclude with some suggestions on how to follow through with your financial plan and some suggestions to utilize in developing your financial future.

Course 13: Exploring College Student Development Theories
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: The course will cover three modules: 1) Psychosocial Student Development Theories based on the work of Erik Erikson 2) Cognitive Structural Development Theories based on the work of Jean Piaget, and 3) Person Environment and Typology Theories including Holland's theory of vocational types, Jung theory of personality type, and Kolb's theory of experiential learning.

Winter 2006

Course 1: Facebook.com on your Campus...Friend or Foe?
Instructor: Shawn McGuirk
Summary: Have you heard of thefacebook.com on your campus? If you haven't yet, no doubt you will soon. Learn what we know about it and what our are students doing on it?

Course 2: Diversity in American Higher Education
Instructor: Dafina Lazarus Stewart
Summary: This four-week course will engage issues of diversity in higher education in the United States. The course will cover the history of inclusion and exclusion in the United States, the policies and laws related to diversity in higher education, campus initiatives, and the benefits of diversity for student outcomes.

Course 3: Supporting African American Students
Instructor: Gailda P. Davis
Summary: This course will also provide students with a chance to look at further research on African American college students, examine sources of support and services on college campuses for African American students, and identify such support agents on your college campus.

Course 4: Parents: Partners in the Education Process or Obstacles to Overcome?
Instructor: Beth Moriarty
Summary: This three-week course will explore the history of parental involvement. It will examine what messages are given to parents in today's high schools and how that is setting up parent expectations of the college experience.

Course 5: A Student Affairs Professional's Guide to Data Reporting Using SPSS for Windows
Instructor: Mark Davenport
Summary: In this course student affairs professionals will learn how to use SPSS to manage data and create the simple charts, tables, and statistics that form the bread-and-butter of student affairs reporting. Bring your own data or use mine. Students need NO prior experience with SPSS or with statistics, just access to the SPSS Base Module and a need to learn how to apply statistical best practices to your reports and presentations.

Course 6: Supporting Online Learners
Instructor: Anita Crawley
Dates: Apr. 10 - Apr. 28
Summary: In this course students will explore resources from the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET), discuss resources their institutions currently deliver at a distance and identify priorities for additional services that might be made available to online students.

Course 7: Understanding and Working with our Millennial College Students
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course explores information about the millennial generation and applies student development theory to working with millennial students.

Course 8: Promoting Civility on Campus
Instructor: Gary Pavela
Summary: This course will cover three area: 1)how civility might be defined-and whether colleges should have any role in promoting it 2)possible regulation of offensive or uncivil expression, including "hate speech" and profanity and 3)broader, environmental approaches to promoting civility inside and outside the classroom.

Fall 2005

Course 1: Supporting Online Learners
Instructor: Anita Crawley
Summary: This course covers principles and techniques in cooperative learning. In other words, it will assist your understanding of what is involved in helping students learn from each other as one, but certainly not the only, mode of learning. To fit with course participants’ busy and varied schedules, one year is given for completion of the course assignments.

Course 2: Basic Supervision: Beginning the Dance
Instructor: Darese Doskal-Scaffido
Summary: This three week short course is geared to entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on supervision theory, supervising staffs and individuals, and working with challenging staff members.

Course 3: Facebook.com on your Campus... Friend or Foe?
Instructor: Shawn McGuirk
Summary: Have you heard of thefacebook.com on your campus? If you haven't yet, no doubt you will soon. Learn what we know about it and what our are students doing on it?

Course 4: Student Suicide: Law and Policy Issues
Instructor: Gary Pavela
Summary: This course examines the law and policy issues related to student suicide, the third leading cause of death for young people in the United States and the second for college students. Special attention will be paid to literature on the causes and prevention of suicide; a detailed case study of a student suicide; analysis of a recent, highly publicized student suicide at M.I.T.; legal developments concerning potential liability for failing to prevent suicide; the scope and limits of confidentiality (including parental notification); and suicidal students and the ADA.

Course 5: Using Technology to Promote Effective Student Development
Instructor: Kim Chambers
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course examines effective uses of technology to promote effective student development, covering the integration of technology in effective student development practice, student use of various technologies, and how student affairs professional can leverage technology to promote effective student development on their campuses.

Course 6: A Student Affairs Professional’s Guide to Data Reporting Using SPSS for Windows
Instructor: Mark Davenport
Summary: In this course student affairs professionals will learn how to use SPSS to manage data and create the simple charts, tables, and statistics that form the bread-and-butter of student affairs reporting. Bring your own data or use mine. Students need NO prior experience with SPSS or with statistics, just access to the SPSS Base Module and a need to learn how to apply statistical best practices to your reports and presentations.

Course 7: One Size Does Not Fit All: Innovative and Traditional Models of Student Affairs Practice
Instructor: Mark Davenport
Summary: This course, based on a book by Manning, Kinzie, and Schuh to be published this spring, explores 11 possible models of student affairs practice.

Summer 2005

Course 1: Resident Director Judicial Training
Instructor: Shawn McGuirk
Summary: This course covers principles and techniques in cooperative learning. In other words, it will assist your understanding of what is involved in helping students learn from each other as one, but certainly not the only, mode of learning. To fit with course participants’ busy and varied schedules, one year is given for completion of the course assignments.

Course 2: Supporting Online Learners
Instructor: Anita Crawley
Summary: This course covers principles and techniques in cooperative learning. In other words, it will assist your understanding of what is involved in helping students learn from each other as one, but certainly not the only, mode of learning. To fit with course participants’ busy and varied schedules, one year is given for completion of the course assignments.

Course 3: Basic Supervision: Beginning the Dance
Instructor: Darese Doskal-Scaffido
Summary: This three week short course is geared to entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on supervision theory, supervising staffs and individuals, and working with challenging staff members.

Course 4: Theories of College Student Development
Instructor: Mark Kretovics
Summary: This three week course will serve as an introduction (or refresher) to some of the foundational theories that guide our understanding of a college student's psychosocial and cognitive development.

Course 5: Teaching and Workshop Facilitation Using the Web
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course covers basic teaching and learning issues associated with teaching or conducting a workshop in a web-based environment.

Course 6: Understanding and Working with our Millennial College Students
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course explores information about the millennial generation and applies student development theory to working with millennial students.

Course 7: Check, Bet, or Raise: Are You Prepared to Deal with Campus Gambling?
Instructor: George McClellan
Summary: This three week course will offer an overview of the extent of gambling behavior in society and among college students, provide a more detailed review of some of the hottest topics in gambling (poker, sports wagering, and gambling online), and help participants develop a framework for preparing their campuses to address gambling issues.

Winter 2004

Course 2: Decision Making and Responsibility
Instructor: Shawn McGuirk
Summary: This course is designed to assist the participant in identifying his/her decision-making process, and learn how to take responsibility for those actions, through readings, online discussion and “homework” style exercises. Participants will also discuss and learn how to empower their students in taking responsibility for their actions and making more appropriate decisions so that they can be as successful as they would like to be.

Course 3: Demystifying Acadmic Affairs
Instructor: Susan Dunton
Summary: This course covers principles and techniques in cooperative learning. In other words, it will assist your understanding of what is involved in helping students learn from each other as one, but certainly not the only, mode of learning. To fit with course participants’ busy and varied schedules, one year is given for completion of the course assignments.

Course 5: Basic Supervision: Beginning the Dance
Instructor: Darese Doskal-Scaffido
Summary: This three week short course is geared to new, entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on their entry into a professional position in student affairs. In particular, we will look at supervision, how to be a strong supervisee, building a support network on campus, networking in the profession and professional ethics.

Course 6: Teaching and Workshop Facilitation Using the Web
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: This three week short course is geared to entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on supervision theory, supervising staffs and individuals, and working with challenging staff members.

Course 7: Safeguarding Your Department Against Disability Discrimination
Instructor: Kendra Johnson, Ed.D.
Summary: This course is designed as an intensive review of the fundamental requirements of disability legislation on institutions of higher learning and the subsequent implications for student access in programs, activities, and services. Enhancing student outcomes within student affairs and preventing unnecessary Office of Civil Rights (OCR) legislation is the focus.

Fall 2004

Course 1: Cooperative Learning in Higher and Adult Education
Instructor: George Jacobs
Summary: This course covers principles and techniques in cooperative learning. In other words, it will assist your understanding of what is involved in helping students learn from each other as one, but certainly not the only, mode of learning. To fit with course participants’ busy and varied schedules, one year is given for completion of the course assignments.

Course 3: Resident Director Judicial Training
Instructor: Shawn McGuirk
Summary: This course will assist Resident Directors and other new professionals in their development toward becoming effective judicial administrators and officers. This three-week course will provide a brief historical context of student judicial affairs. We will then proceed toward more contemporary issues, examining why we do what we do, and how we do it today. The course will then concentrate on the judicial meeting with a student who has allegedly violated policy.

Course 4: New Professional Basics: Tools to Thrive & Survive
Instructor: Darese Doskal-Scaffido
Summary: This three week short course is geared to new, entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on their entry into a professional position in student affairs. In particular, we will look at supervision, how to be a strong supervisee, building a support network on campus, networking in the profession and professional ethics.

Course 5: Islam and the Needs of Muslim Students
Instructor: Usama M. Shaikh
Summary: This introductory workshop will focus on Islam and the needs of Muslim students. The object of this course is threefold. The first objective is for the participant to explore their own view of Islam and identify any biases they may have resulting from media exposure and how these biases may effect their every day interaction with individuals of Muslim background.

Course 6: Internet Based Self Assessment Instruments for Students
Instructor: Anita Crawley
Summary: Assisting students in assessing their learning styles, time management and study skills habits, as well as their career interests can be a daunting task. This three-week course will examine online self-assessment tools that can be used to help students begin the self-discovery process. The course will concentrate on evaluating the quality and usefulness of information from identified websites and integrating these resources into student services work. Course discussions will center on utilization of the Internet to enhance student success. This course is designed for those in direct services Student Affairs positions.

Course 7: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Student Affairs Budgeting But Were Afraid to Ask!
Instructor: Allison Steffensmeier
Summary: This three week short course is geared to entry-level and mid-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on many aspects of budgeting in an easy to understand format. Methods of analysis and use of budgets as planning tools will be explored through presentations, recommended readings, participation on a discussion board, and actual budget analysis.

Course 8: Theories of College Student Development
Instructor: Daniel Salter, Ph.D.
Summary: This three week course will serve as an overview of some of the foundational theories that guide student affairs practice. Through readings, personal reflections, and threaded discussions, participants will gain an understanding of the utility of these theories to the student affairs profession. In particular, the course will focus on selected theories from the cognitive-structural, psycho-social, and social identity domains.

Course 9: Key Components in Developing a Resident Assistant Class
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: This three week on-line course examines how to develop and effective Resident Assistant class. Participants will extensively explore three major course topics: 1) Comprehensive Resident Assistant course content. 2) How to Effectively use technology to promote student learning, 3) How to design and implement experiential components of the course so the course becomes not just a static delivery of course content, but is an active, relevant experience for the developing Resident Assistant.

Course 10: College Environments and Cultures
Instructor: Daniel Salter, Ph.D.
Summary: The purposes of this course are (a) to introduce participants to the complexity of today's campus environments and cultures and (b) to examine theoretical concepts and empirical findings which help to describe the college environment and explain its impact on students and staff.

Course 11: The Basic Elements of Campus Due Process
Instructor: Gary Pavela
Summary: This course examines the basic components of due process as applied in disciplinary and academic decisionmaking at public and private institutions of higher education. Special attention will be paid to the educational nature of the student disciplinary process, and the distinction between disciplinary and academic judgments.

Course 12: Assessment in Student Affairs
Instructor: Dafina L. Stewart
Summary: This course is an intensive review of the purposes of assessment and how they can be used effectively to improve campus programs, activities, and services. There will be three broad sections to this course: understanding the interactional perspective, designing educational environments (the largest), and community and involvement. Participants will be introduced to various theories and models from these areas and how they can be applied in higher education settings.

Summer 2004

Course 1: Basic Supervision: Beginning the Dance
Instructor: Darese Doskal-Scaffido
Summary: This three week short course is geared to entry-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on supervision theory, supervising staffs and individuals, and working with challenging staff members.

Course 2: Teaching and Workshop Facilitation Using the Web
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course covers basic teaching and learning issues associated with teaching or conducting a workshop in a web-based environment. Divided into three, one week segments, the course covers effective student and faculty communication in a distance course or workshop, the instructional design of a distance course or workshop, and multiple content delivery methods. Designed for faculty, teaching assistants, student affairs staff who teach or facilitate workshops, this course examines distance learning for both strict academic courses as well as co-curricular learning environments such as "freshman 101" seminars and student leadership courses and workshops. es for finding the student affairs job that is right for you. Divided into three, one week segments, the course covers identifying your job search strengths and weaknesses, understand effective job search dynamics and how they relate to you, and implementing an effective student affairs job search.

Course 3: Student Suicide: Law and Policy Issues
Instructor: Gary Pavela
Summary: This course examines the law and policy issues related to student suicide, the third leading cause of death for young people in the United States and the second for college students. Special attention will be paid to literature on the causes and prevention of suicide; a detailed case study of a student suicide; analysis of a recent, highly publicized student suicide at M.I.T.; legal developments concerning potential liability for failing to prevent suicide; the scope and limits of confidentiality (including parental notification); and suicidal students and the ADA.

Course 4: Defining the Scope and Limits of Student Freedom
Instructor: Gary Pavela
Summary: This course examines the law and policy issues related to defining the scope and limits of student freedom of expression at public and private institutions of higher education. Special attention will be paid to: ·Philosophical foundations for encouraging (and occasionally limiting) student freedom of expression; ·The applicability and scope of relevant First Amendment protections at public colleges and universities; ·Defining the level of protection to be given to student expression at private institutions of higher education; ·The history and direction of the "speech code" debate; ·Defining lawful limits on freedom of expression; ·Freedom of expression and racial and sexual harassment; ·Alternatives to censorship; ·Freedom of expression and "student" academic freedom; ·Freedom of expression and the Internet

Course 5: Diversity in Higher Education
Instructor: Dafina Lazarus Stewart
Summary: This four week course will engage how issues of diversity and multiculturalism have impacted higher education in the United States. Special attention will be paid to the policies which have impacted and shaped the structural exclusion and inclusion of groups throughout the history of higher education; and the particular issues connected to the recruitment and retention of students, faculty, and administrators from underrepresented groups.

Course 7: Theories of College Student Development
Instructor: Daniel Salter
Summary: This three week intensive course will introduce participants to many of the major theories of development that inform student affairs practice. Overviews of theories from three different domains will be provided (psychosocial, cognitive-structural, and social identity). Participants will explore one theory in depth.

Course 8: Cooperative Learning in Higher and Adult Education
Instructor: George Jacobs
Summary: This course covers principles and techniques in cooperative learning. In other words, it will assist your understanding of what is involved in helping students learn from each other as one, but certainly not the only, mode of learning. To fit with course participants’ busy and varied schedules, one year is given for completion of the course assignments.

Spring 2004

Course 1: Conducting an Effective Student Affairs Job Search
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course covers effective strategies for finding the student affairs job that is right for you. Divided into three, one week segments, the course covers identifying your job search strengths and weaknesses, understand effective job search dynamics and how they relate to you, and implementing an effective student affairs job search.

Course 2: Theories of College Student Development
Instructor: Dr. Mark Kretovics
Summary: This three week course will serve as an introduction (or refresher) to some of the foundational theories that guide our understanding of a college student's psychosocial and cognitive development. As colleges and universities reframe their missions to become more "learning centered" organizations and accountability issues rise to the forefront, it becomes necessary as student affairs professionals to reinforce our commitment to students and their development as "whole persons." Through readings and threaded discussions participants will gain an understanding of how these theories have impacted the student affairs profession and more importantly how these theories can be put into practice in our everyday lives as we strive to facilitate the growth and development of college students.

Course 3: Diversity in American Higher Education
Instructor: Dafina Lazarus Stewart
Summary: This four week course will engage how issues of diversity and multiculturalism have impacted higher education in the United States. Special attention will be paid to the policies which have impacted and shaped the structural exclusion and inclusion of groups throughout the history of higher education; and the particular issues connected to the recruitment and retention of students, faculty, and administrators from underrepresented groups.

Course 4: Essential Guidelines for Designing A Student Affairs Web Site
Instructor: Phil Bernard
Registration is closed
Summary: This course will examine basic design tenets that student affairs professionals should incorporate into their Web pages. The course will address 1) What should be conveyed via the office or division Web site? 2) What tools are available to accomplish these goals? 3) What type of resources - personnel, monetary - are necessary? 4) What are the basic style guidelines that should be incorporated into the Web site?

Course 5: Defining the Scope and Limits of Student Freedom of Expression
Instructor: Gary Pavela
Summary: This course examines the law and policy issues related to defining the scope and limits of student freedom of expression at public and private institutions of higher education. Special attention will be paid to: ·Philosophical foundations for encouraging (and occasionally limiting) student freedom of expression; ·The applicability and scope of relevant First Amendment protections at public colleges and universities; ·Defining the level of protection to be given to student expression at private institutions of higher education; ·The history and direction of the "speech code" debate; ·Defining lawful limits on freedom of expression; ·Freedom of expression and racial and sexual harassment; ·Alternatives to censorship; ·Freedom of expression and "student" academic freedom; ·Freedom of expression and the Internet

Course 6: College Students with Asperger's Syndrome
Instructors: Jane Thierfeld-Brown and Lorraine Wolf
Summary: Aspergers Syndrome is an Autism Spectrum Disorder with growing numbers of students on college campuses. This population presents unique challenges to student affairs professionals. This online workshop will explore Aspergers Syndrome in-depth - specifically 1) define Aspergers Syndrome, 2) look at the increase in incidence, 3) examine how students are affected on campus and in class and 4) discuss accommodations issues.

Course 7: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Student Affairs Budgeting But Were Afraid to Ask!
Instructors: Allison Steffensmeier & J. Lee Peters
Summary: This three to four week short course is geared to entry-level and mid-level professionals and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on budgeting contexts, terms, and models in an easy to understand format.

Fall 2003

Course 1: Internet Based Self Assessment Instruments for Students
Instructor: Anita Crawley
Summary: Assisting students in assessing their learning styles, time management and study skills habits, as well as their career interests can be a daunting task. This three-week course will examine online self-assessment tools that can be used to help students begin the self-discovery process. The course will concentrate on evaluating the quality and usefulness of information from identified websites and integrating these resources into student services work. Course discussions will center on utilization of the Internet to enhance student success. This course is designed for those in direct services Student Affairs positions.

Course 2: Supervision Principles and Skills
Instructor: Wendy M. Wallace
Summary: This three week short course is geared to entry-level and mid-level staff and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on core supervisory skills such as 1) supervisory communication and successful meetings, 2) goal-setting and expectations, 3) generational supervision issues, 4) working with special populations, 5) performance appraisals and 6) staff motivation. Through readings, participation on a discussion board, and case studies, participants will explore basic tenets crucial for successful supervision of both student and professional staff. This course is presented in conjunction with the Web site Reslife.Net.

Course 3: Conducting an Effective Student Affairs Job Search
Instructor: Cary Anderson Ed.D.
Summary: This three week short course will examine the challenges faced by student affairs professionals as we extend our notion of campus community into cyberspace. The course is divided into three one-week modules. The course first covers some of the challenges raised by student use of technology such as file sharing, privacy, plagiarism, and Internet addition. During the second week, we will examine how to effectively deal with the aforementioned challenges through policy and educational programs. The final week, we will reflect on how our online experience can be translated into better serving our students and peer into the future of technology.

Course 5: Creating a Customer Service Culture: Making the Move from "Talking the Talk" to "Walking the Walk!"
Instructor: Kim Moistner-Bartlett
Summary: Research reveals that 91% of businesses have some sort of customer service theme or program, yet only 16% are able to achieve service where the customers are "more than satisfied." Sound familiar? You're invited to learn how to create a customer service vision and bring it to life. Participants will examine ways to identify and remove service barriers, solicit customer input, and hire "the right people". Front-line service techniques including how to deal with upset and angry customers will also be addressed. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the customer service hierarchy and ways to connect with customers. It's time to stop "talking the talk" and begin "walking the walk." This course is presented in conjunction with the web site Reslife.Net.

Course 6: Using the College Disciplinary Process to Promote Student Ethical Development
Instructors: Gary Pavela & Andrew Canter
Summary: This course examines the ways college disciplinary systems--including academic integrity policies--can be used to promote student ethical development.

Course 7: Conducting an Effective Student Affairs Job Search
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course covers effective strategies for finding the student affairs job that is right for you. Divided into three, one week segments, the course covers identifying your job search strengths and weaknesses, understand effective job search dynamics and how they relate to you, and implementing an effective student affairs job search.

Course 8: Theories of College Student Development
Instructor: Dr. Mark Kretovics
Summary: This three week course will serve as an introduction (or refresher) to some of the foundational theories that guide our understanding of a college student's psychosocial and cognitive development. As colleges and universities reframe their missions to become more "learning centered" organizations and accountability issues rise to the forefront, it becomes necessary as student affairs professionals to reinforce our commitment to students and their development as "whole persons." Through readings and threaded discussions participants will gain an understanding of how these theories have impacted the student affairs profession and more importantly how these theories can be put into practice in our everyday lives as we strive to facilitate the growth and development of college students.

Summer 2003

Course 1: Teaching a Distance Learning Course
Instructor: Dr. Kim Chambers
Summary: This three week INTENSIVE short course covers basic teaching and learning issues associated with teaching in a web-based environment. Divided into three, one week segments, the course covers effective student and faculty communication in a distance course, the instructional design of a course, and multiple content delivery methods. Designed for faculty, teaching assistants, and student affairs staff who teach, this course examines distance learning for both strict academic courses as well as co-curricular learning environments such as "freshman 101" seminars and student leadership courses.

Course 4: College Students with Asperger's Syndrome
Instructor: Jane Thierfeld-Brown
Summary: Aspergers Syndrome is an Autism Spectrum Disorder with growing numbers of students on college campuses. This population presents unique challenges to student affairs professionals. This online workshop will explore Aspergers Syndrome in-depth - specifically 1) define Aspergers Syndrome, 2) look at the increase in incidence, 3) examine how students are affected on campus and in class and 4) discuss accommodations issues.

Spring 2003

Course 1: Essential Guidelines for Designing A Student Affairs Web Site
Instructor: Phil Bernard
Summary: Institutional Web sites have become the mainstay for a wide variety of information about college or university life. Student Affairs offices are no different. The Web has become an important tool for these administrative units to convey information, provide feedback, and promote itself to the campus community as well as beyond. Unfortunately, too often the construction of an office or division Web site ignores basic design principles. This prevents a browser from successfully locating pertinent information or easily navigating through the site. This course will examine basic design tenets that student affairs professionals should incorporate into their Web pages. Through examples and online discussions the essentials of creating a user-friendly and stylistically adroit Web site will be presented. The course will utilize online readings, exemplar Web sites, and an online discussion board, to address these five points. The book, "Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites," by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton's recommended as an excellent resource and will be utilized extensively in the course, as well as several instructional web sites regarding design.

Course 2: Effective Strategies for Developing a First Year Experience Program
Instructors: David Ouimette & Kate Wrigley
Summary: This course will explore the development of a First Year Experience (FYE) program on your campus. Over the past 25 years, FYE programs have proved beneficial in easing the student transition from high school to college. Some of the topics to be included in this three week course will be the development of mission and goals, instructor recruitment and training, effectively using undergraduates as teaching assistants, and using technology in all aspects of program development.

Course 3: Managing Difficult Conversations
Instructor: Tammy Lenski, Ed.D.
Summary: This two-week course is designed to transform the experience of engaging in difficult conversations in the higher ed workplace. Participants will examine the habitual ways of thinking and being they bring to conversations that challenge them the most, and learn how to develop new perspectives and approaches capable of shifting the way these exchanges unfold. Unlike approaches for "dealing with difficult people," this approach assumes that it can takes only one person in a difficult conversation to lead the way to a more satisfying outcome.

Course 5: Key Components in Developing a Resident Assistant Class
Instructor: Kim Chambers, Ph.D.
Summary: This three week on-line course examines how to develop and effective Resident Assistant class. Participants will extensively explore three major course topics: 1) Comprehensive Resident Assistant course content. 2)How to Effectively use technology to promote student learning, and 3) How to design and implement experiential components of the course so the course becomes not just a static delivery of course content, but is an active, relevant experience for the developing Resident Assistant.

Course 6: Critical law and policy issues for higher education administrators
Instructor: Gary Pavela
Summary: This is the first in a sequence of courses designed to give participants an in-depth view of critical law and policy issues in higher education. The first course ( "The student-university-parent relationship") reviews the evolution and direction of the concept of in loco parentis, considers alternative formulations, and concludes with analysis of the growing role of parents in campus governance.

Course 7: The How To's for Recruiting and Retaining Staff
Instructor: Tom Ellett
Summary: Over the past few years recruiting quality staff in many areas of student affairs has become increasingly difficult, as fewer candidates appear to be entering the profession. This course will provide participants with concepts, strategies, and proven techniques to help organizations look at recruitment as a yearlong activity. Additionally, participants will review selection and retention strategies. This course is designed to expose participants to a variety of topics in a short amount of time. It will give participants an overview and better understanding of five topic areas: (1) Creating jobs with "meaning" (2) Current trends in the candidate population (in one realm of student affairs - housing and residence life) (3) Overview of a recruitment plan (4) Elements for a comprehensive selection process (5) Retention Issues. This course is presented in conjunction with the web site Reslife.Net.

Course 8: The Student Learning Imperative: Implications for Student Affairs Professionals
Instructor: Bill Zeller
Summary: This course will provide an overview of the reform movement in undergraduate education that has brought a renewed emphasis on the concept of student learning. Particular attention will be given to the role Student Affairs plays in helping institutions build a campus environment that promotes learning, particularly through the development of initiatives that connect student's in-class and out-of-class experiences. The course will explore the implications of this movement on the future of the Student Affairs profession and the individual careers of course participants. Participants will also explore and gain an understanding of learning communities and living learning programs. This course is presented in conjunction with the web site Reslife.Net.

Course 9: Creating a Customer Service Culture: Making the Move from "Talking the Talk" to "Walking the Walk!"
Instructor: Kim Moistner-Bartlett
Summary: Research reveals that 91% of businesses have some sort of customer service theme or program, yet only 16% are able to achieve service where the customers are "more than satisfied." Sound familiar? You're invited to learn how to create a customer service vision and bring it to life. Participants will examine ways to identify and remove service barriers, solicit customer input, and hire "the right people". Front-line service techniques including how to deal with upset and angry customers will also be addressed. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the customer service hierarchy and ways to connect with customers. It's time to stop "talking the talk" and begin "walking the walk." This course is presented in conjunction with the web site Reslife.Net.

Fall 2002

Course 1: Web Based Student Services for the Non-Technical Student Affairs Professional
Instructor: Gary Kleemann
Summary: This three-week workshop is designed to provide the non-technical student affairs professional with a basis to begin asking the right questions about web based student services. It is not a how to workshop. We will not go over the design or construction aspects of building such a web site. At the end of this workshop you will NOT be prepared to launch web based services for your students. You WILL be prepared to beginning asking relevant questions and to begin the process of planning for the organizational changes that will likely occur because of the implementation of web based services.

Course 2: Giving Voice to Critical Campus Issues
Instructor: Kathleen Manning
Summary: This course is based on the book, Giving voice to critical campus issues: Qualitative research in student affairs, published in 1999 through ACPA Media. The book is a collection of qualitative research case studies covering the following topics: Alcohol related death of a residence hall student, Student suicide, Acquaintance rape, Adult child of an alcoholic, Tri-racial identity, and Class issues in the academy. The course presents an opportunity to read the book, gain an understanding of college life, and further expand knowledge of student affairs practice through course discussion and interaction.

Course 3: The Road to Success: A Course for Entry-Level Hall Directors
Instructor: Kim Moistner-Bartlett
Summary: Designed for entry-level Hall Directors, this three-week course will take participants on a "road trip" through new concepts, creative strategies and proven techniques to help them succeed as a Housing Professional. Participants' journey will begin with Developing a Staff Team. Next we'll explore Dealing with Disciplinary Issues. The road trip will come to an end as we make a final stop at Facilities Management and The Customer Service Connection. A variety of instructional methods will be sure to keep participants on course and running smoothly throughout this educational experience. This course is presented in conjunction with the Web site Reslife.Net.

Course 4: Campus Mediation and Conflict Management Programs
Instructor: Tammy Lenski, Ed.D.
Summary: This course will present a comprehensive look at ways to integrate mediation and conflict management processes into the campus community, including uses for managing student behavior and supporting judicial systems. The course does not presuppose prior mediation knowledge or training.

Course 5: Critical Law and Policy Issues for Higher Education Administrators
Instructor: Gary Pavela
Summary: This is the first in a sequence of courses designed to give participants an in-depth view of critical law and policy issues in higher education. The first course ( "The student-university-parent relationship") reviews the evolution and direction of the concept of in loco parentis, considers alternative formulations, and concludes with analysis of the growing role of parents in campus governance.

Course 6: Supervision Principles and Skills
Instructor: Wendy M. Wallace
Summary: This three week short course is geared to entry-level and mid-level staff and will provide participants with the opportunity to focus on core supervisory skills such as 1) supervisory communication and successful meetings, 2) goal-setting and expectations, 3) generational supervision issues, 4) working with special populations, 5) performance appraisals and 6) staff motivation. Through readings, participation on a discussion board, and case studies, participants will explore basic tenets crucial for successful supervision of both student and professional staff. This course is presented in conjunction with the Web site Reslife.Net.

Course 7: Demystifying Acadmic Affairs
Instructor: Susan Dunton
Summary: This three week professional development course will introduce academic affairs in simple, straightforward terms to student affairs professionals. The course will provide a broad overview of academic affairs for those: 1) seeking to learn more about the organization and workings of academic affairs, 2)seeking to cultivate collaborative ventures with academic affairs, and 3)desiring a better understanding for the purposes of future career paths.