My name is Paul. I was born missing fingers and have funny arms. I am ok with it. There really isn’t much that I can’t do and I have learned…
Career Exploration and Student Athletes It has been a few years since I coached college football. There are lots of things that I miss about it like the first day…
There’s nothing better than working with student-athletes. As a high school coach I vowed to get as many of my players to the next level as possible since involvement in…
Most of us come into student affairs through some happy accident. Quite often, we were engaged as student-leaders and somehow discovered that we could get paid to do similar work. My foray…
*Originally published in NASPA New Professionals and Graduate Students Newsletter Student affairs work is great. I have always found it interesting, challenging, and rewarding. There are a multitude of job types within…
Hooray! It’s August/September and the students are coming back to campus and that means for those of us in student affairs, we are as the French would say, “le busy.”…
This week marks the end Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week (GPSAW) across the country. Although I am biased, graduate and professional students are a significant part of the campus ecosystem. Graduate…
There is an underlying assumption that graduate student leaders do not need much support because they are more mature and experienced than undergraduate leaders. Although this may be true in some…
