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Rules & Submission Guidelines



RULES & ELIGIBILITY:
  1. Each Masters level program in Student Affairs Administration, Counseling, or Higher Education will be allowed to enter as many three or four-person teams as wish to compete.

  2. Each team member must be currently enrolled in a Masters level program in Student Affairs Administration, Counseling, or Higher Education and will be enrolled for the Spring 2012 term for a minimum of six credits.

  3. Team members must be from the same graduate program. There cannot be team members from different graduate programs on the same team.

  4. The case study competition does require a certain degree of commitment in order to complete.

  5. Teams should utilize relevant student affairs literature, where appropriate, for their presentation.

  6. By participating, each team agrees to allow their presentation to appear in the Spring 2012 edition of the StudentAffairs.com e-journal, “The Journal of Technology in Student Affairs.”

  7. There is no entry fee required in order to participate
SUBMISSIONS:
  1. Details about the content of the case study along with instructions on submitting will be emailed to each team on January 30, 2012.

  2. You must include the name of your School and your Team Leader on the first page of your position paper, in addition to the names of all team members.

  3. The file name of your submission must include the name of your school and team leader. We often receive more than one submission per school so this important to enable the judges to distinguish entries. We recommend using a naming format like UniversityofLearning-smith.ppt or .doc, etc. Do not just call it "submission.xxx

  4. The deadline for a team’s submission is Friday, February 24, 2012 by 9 p.m. EST.
***Upon submission, all entries become the property of StudentAffairs.com for qualified use in StudentAffairs.com-related activities***
JUDGING CRITERIA:
Judges will be utilizing the following criteria when evaluating presentations.
  1. innovation of approach
  2. use of literature both within and outside student affairs
  3. organization of presentation
  4. rationalization for chosen responses
  5. practicality of approach
  6. usefulness of the information presented
  7. educational value to Student Affairs
TIMETABLE:
  • Friday, January 27, 2012 -- Registration Deadline
  • Monday, January 30, 2012 -- Case study e-mailed to all participants
  • Wednesday, February 24, 2012 -- Submissions due by 9:00 p.m. EST.
  • Monday March 5, 2012 -- Virtual Case Study Competition winners posted.
REGISTRATION:
All graduate students, by registering for the Virtual Case Study Competition, acknowledge they are matriculating in a Masters level program in student personnel administration, higher education, or counseling for at least six credits during the Spring 2012 semester. In addition, by submitting the registration form, each team member agrees to allow their final product to be used in the StudentAffairs.com website.

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