SESSION 2 (Thursday, February 2nd,
1:30-2:30 pm)
Why Does It Always Have to
be About HITTING the Bullıs Eye? Restructuring Our Thinking about Masculinity
& Methods for Working with Male College Students
Peter Paquette & Collier Lumpkin, The Ohio State University
Recent research suggests that colleges are failing to properly serve their male students. This session will explore reasons this might be occurring, as well as equip attendees with strategies to affect change in the way men are served on their campuses.
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate
Students
Location: Stansbury
HANDOUTS: Restructuring
Thinking about Masculinity (ppt)
Restructuring Thinking about Masculinity Rubric (doc)
Res Life & Campus
Ministry: A Match Made in Heaven
Joanna Ellwood & Austina McFarland, Ohio Dominican University
At private institutions, Campus Ministry & Residence Life have a unique opportunity to work together for the good of First Year Students. Come hear about how the Hall Director and Campus Minister in Residence collaborate through programming and individualized outreach to serve the first year residence students. This presentation is targeted at an audience who is interested in creating & developing new and unique positions. It is also beneficial for those who are new professionals in student affairs and want to learn about creative collaboration in a residential community.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers
Location: Bishop Chase
HANDOUTS: Res Life and
Campus Ministry Bibliography (doc)
Res Life and Campus Ministry
(ppt)
Regular Versus Shorter
University Orientations: A Comparison of
Attendee Make-up
Carla Abreu Ellis & Jason Brent Ellis, Bowling Green State University
This study compared college student characteristics of those who attended regular and shorter orientation sessions at a four year university over a period of four years. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and results indicated that studentsı characteristics were significantly different. Recommendations were discussed focusing on studentsı college experiences.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New Professionals
Location: Alexander Morrison
HANDOUTS: Regular
Versus Shorter University Orientations (ppt)
³When Spider Webs Unite²
Weaving a Legacy of Success for Black Students & Professionals at PWIıs
through Cross Campus Collaboration
Vincent L. Briley & Lisa M. Scott, Denison University
Chris Kennerly, Kenyon College
Historically, Black students & professionals on PWI campuses report feelings of isolation or exist on the fringes of mainstream campus. This presentation will highlight the importance of cross campus collaboration of Black Students & Professionals at PWIıs using existing models in Ohio, and how they have been successful in retaining, developing, & mentioning students and current professionals. All levels of student affairs professionals are encouraged to attend this dynamic presentation.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New
Professionals
Location: Stansbury
HANDOUTS: When
Spider Webs Unite (ppt)
A Moving Target: The
Challenges and Rewards of Student Affairs Positions on Regional and Two-Year
Campuses (Part 1 of 2)
Kathy Morris, Wright State University
John Berry, Ohio State University Newark/Central Ohio
Technical College
This session will provide opportunities for student affairs professionals at regional and two-year institutions to become acquainted and share examples of their leadership roles within the unique dynamics of with their respective campuses. Participants will be invited to identify strategies for addressing topics that may include: student concerns, administrative patterns, diversity and inclusion, institutional identity, collegial 'connectivity' and others.
Intended Audience: Regional and 2-year Campus Professionals
Location: John Snow
Aiming Before You Shoot,
Assessing the Target as New Professionals
Gina Dowell, Nicole Lepone & Laura Ulmer, Ohio
University
As upcoming professionals in higher education, the challenge of getting your first job creates excitement and anxiety. Upon entering your first professional position, how do you balance observing your new surroundings with starting and implementing new initiatives and programs? This session will provide an opportunity for upcoming and new professionals to discuss the challenges of balancing expectations and experiences in the first year in a new position. Using Love and Estanekıs Rethinking Student Affairs, weıll discuss the value of assessment and observation in your new job and how taking the time to assess your new institution can help you hit the bullıs eye in the long-run.
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Adams
Facebook: Friend or Foe?
Time to Take Aim
Tim Bessler & Jen Droege, College of Mount Saint Joseph
Building community on the college campus of the 21st century requires higher education administrators, faculty and staff to be familiar with on-line communities such as ³Facebook², ³My Space² and personal ³blogs². The purpose of this session will be to discuss the challenges and opportunities these technological innovations present to campus community building. Furthermore, this session will present strategies used on one campus to address inappropriate use of these sites.
Intended Audience: Senior Student Affairs Officers,
Mid-Level Managers
Location: Worthington Ballroom
SESSION 3 (Thursday, February 2nd,
2:45-3:45 pm)
What Employers Want:
Survey Results Reveal Their Not-so-secret Desires
Eric Anderson & Jenni Gough, Capital University
Students applying for jobs need current information about employersı preferences for candidatesı actions. A wildly successful 2005 survey (after a 2004 failure) of corporate, government, and not-for-profit organizations reveals both clues and confusion in the minds of employers regarding resumes, cover letters, e-mail and interviewing. Career development practitioners and others interested in our fascinating field will learn what went right in 2005, what went wrong in 2004, and (of course) what employers really want.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New
Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Potter Wright
HANDOUTS: What
Employers Want PDF slides (pdf)
What Employers Want handout
(pdf)
The Millennial Student:
Are We On Target With Who They Are?
Mike Hess, Heather Allebach & Marseille Markham, Ohio University
As new professionals and graduate students begin careers in student affairs, it is important to understand the millennial generation and its unique dynamics. We will examine the question, ³As student affairs professionals, what is the best way to connect with the millennial student?² We will explore the different characteristics of millennials and how to benefit from those characteristics. This program will offer a pragmatic approach to understanding, engaging and interacting with the millennial student.
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate
Students
Location: Bishop Chase
The Forgotten: Biracial
Students on College Campuses
Angela Harris & Kimberly Brazwell, Otterbein College
1-2% of the nationıs multiracial population attends college we just havenıt noticed them. Are our campuses equipped to assist multiracial students with their unique issues? Have we overlooked this small but significant group? Attendance is encouraged for multicultural directors and mid-level college professionals interested in identifying possible administrative/biracial students disconnects, better understanding the complexities of biracial identity and discussing how we can better serve biracial students through their cultural identity and development.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, Multicultural
Directors
Location: Alexander Morrison
HANDOUTS: Biracial
Students Presentation (ppt)
The Principles of Servant
Leadership in Student Life
Dan Lawson, Ashland University
The Servant Leadership House on the campus of Ashland University is one of only three programs like it in the nation. Beginning with the Greenleaf model of servant leadership, Ashland University has added spirituality and community services as components of this co-ed living/learning environment. This program presents the principles and characteristics of servant leadership as well as the unique application to student affairs, student activities, residence life, community service and campus ministries.
Intended Audience: Senior Student Affairs Officers,
Mid-Level Managers
Location: Stansbury
HANDOUTS: Ashland
University SLH Presentation Handout (doc)
Ashland University SLH
Presentation (ppt)
A Moving Target: The
Challenges and Rewards of Student Affairs Positions on Regional and Two-Year
Campuses (Part 2 of 2)
Kathy Morris, Wright State University
John Berry, Ohio State University Newark/Central Ohio
Technical College
In this follow-up session, participants will be asked to brainstorm and discuss ways in which OCPA can better serve the needs of its regional and two-year institution members. Strategies will be designed to allow regional and two-year professional more voice within the association.
Intended Audience: Regional and 2-year Campus Professionals
Location: John Snow
HELP! : Itıs Time to Start
a Job Search
Amber Prekler, Kent State University
Carrie Wissinger, The Ohio State University
Are you saying to yourself, ³What will I do after graduation?² Does your heart begin to race at the thought of a job search? This session will show graduate students the ins and outs of an entry level job search in student affairs. After this session, participants will have strategies for organizing a job search, cover letter and resume hints, networking secrets, and a guide to online job searches.
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Location: Adams
HANDOUTS: Prekler-Wissinger
Job Search (pdf)
CAS on a Shoestring
Performing Assessment on a Budget
Paul Putman, Cleveland State University
Jason Bergeron, Baldwin-Wallace College
This program will help attendees to understand the assessment process using CAS Standards and Guidelines, specifically when constrained by time and finances. Participants will learn about the standards, how to best approach the process, and how to complete a holistic assessment using multiple perspectives. Using faculty, staff, and student input, this program hopes to show how the assessment process can be a positive experience for all involved.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New Professionals
Location: Worthington Ballroom
HANDOUTS: CAS
on a Shoestring (ppt)
SESSION 4 (Thursday, February 2nd,
4:00-5:00 pm)
The Road Less Traveled
Andrew Sadouskas, Wittenberg University
Annie Russell, Ohio University
Tricia Zelaya, The Ohio State University
Four students diverged at the end of graduate schoolEach took their own path to becoming a new professional in higher education, all with successful results. Hear their stories of how they came to be where they are today, recommendations regarding job searching and life after graduate school. Be prepared to ask questions and discuss tactics for succeeding in the ³post-graduation experience.² ³And that has made all the difference² Robert Frost
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Potter Wright
HANDOUTS: Road Less
Traveled
Changing the Way We Look
at Learning in the Residence Halls
Kristin Hunger & Rebecca Lane, The Ohio State University
In this presentation we tackle the current trend of Living Learning Programs shifting to Learning Communities and the manner in which OSU restructured one program, the Substance Free Community, to better serve the students who live in it. Our interactive presentation will discuss what differentiates a LLP and a LC, the concerns students and staff originally identified, steps taken to address those matters, and ways to implement similar programs at other institutions.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Bishop Chase
HANDOUTS: learning
communities handout (pub)
Learning Communities
presentation outline (doc)
Career Services: Do We
Enable or Empower Students?
Jessica M. Turos
& Annette Badik, Bowling
Green State University
Tell them or teach themenable or empower studentsThese are issues we face in the field of student affairs. This interactive presentation will explore millennial students and their use of career services.
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Alexander Morrison
HANDOUTS: Career Services
Enable or Empower (ppt)
Hitting the Mark: How
4-year Institutions Can Help Ensure the Successful Transfer of Community
College Students
Patrick Dymarkowski & Lindsey Krout, Owens Community
College Findlay-area Campus
Students transferring from a community college to a four-year institution often face obstacles and challenges beyond those experienced by the typical ³traditional student.² However, transfer students are often times overlooked by the office of student services. Geared towards graduate students and new professionals, this program will highlight some of these obstacles, as well as present techniques colleges and universities can use to make the transfer process easier and help ensure student retention and success.
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Stansbury
HANDOUTS: Hitting Our
Mark (ppt)
Senior Student Affairs
Roundtable
Jim Troha, Heidelberg College, Moderator
Location: John Snow
Our Journey to the Target:
A Transformational Approach to the Development of Student Learning Outcomes
Kate Porubcansky & Melissa Gilbert, Otterbein College
Our campus student affairs staff has been engaged in the development of student learning outcomes for our individual offices and overall division for the past 18 months. Come learn about our process, both successes and challenges, and how our staff evolved as we moved toward an integrated division plan. We will share practical strategies and workshop ideas to use on your campus and will offer an interactive activity to begin or enhance your own Student Learning Outcomes process. This session is targeted to any audience.
Intended Audience: Senior Student Affairs Officers,
Mid-Level Managers, New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Worthington Ballroom
HANDOUTS: Please contact Kate Porubcansky at Kporubcansky@otterbein.edu for materials and handouts
SESSION 5 (Friday, February 3rd,
9:30-10:30 am)
Double Bullıs-eye: Serving
students and Communities
Lisa Weiss, The Ohio State University
In this interactive workshop, explore ways to connect students to the community by creating meaningful volunteer experiences for students while also meeting the needs of community partners. After learning about the foundations of successful service-learning programs, you will have the opportunity to discuss ideas with colleagues and create your own practical plan for a program that engages your students and strengthens your community.
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate
Students
Location: Griswold A
HANDOUTS: Double
Bulls Eye Motivating_Words (pub)
Double Bulls Eye presentation
(ppt)
Homo Away from Home
Leslie Jo Shelton & Anna Zulia, Ohio University
Homo Away From Home is an interactive session in which we will share how Ohio University hits the bullıs eye for creating an atmosphere of acceptance and assistance for LGBTIQQA students. Participants will have the opportunity to experience a portion of our SafeZone training. We will also highlight other current programs that target the needs of specific student populations within the LGBTIQQA community.
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Griswold B
HANDOUTS: Homo
Away From Home handout (doc)
Ready, Aim, Fire? Student
Affairs Graduate Preparation Programs
Dafina L. Stewart, Bowling Green State University
This roundtable discussion is intended for faculty teaching in graduate preparation programs in higher education and/or student affairs or college student personnel. Faculty will share insights, knowledge, and resources regarding what we have learned about the effectiveness of graduate preparation for emergent student affairs professionals. Participants will gain the opportunity to be reflective about our practice and engage each other as colleagues, teachers, and scholars with our students and in the field.
Intended Audience: Faculty
Location: Kilbourne
HANDOUTS: Please contact Dafina Stewart at dafinas@bgsu.edu for roundtable discussion notes
TargetSocial Justice:
Educating Student Staff in Social Justice Education
Amanda Hobson, Chris Reghetti-Feyler & Paula
Smolinsky, Ohio University
Diversity, multiculturalism, social justice: these words describe an important topic on our college campuses. The large scale question is: how do we as professionals educate our student staff members about topics surrounding social justice issues? At Ohio University, the Department of Residence Life takes several approaches to educating student staff about social justice issues. Our presentation will demonstrate these approaches as well as allow participants an opportunity to share their ideas and efforts with others.
Intended Audience: Senior Student Affairs Officers,
Mid-Level Managers
Location: Potter Wright
HANDOUTS: Engaging
Student Staff in Social Justice Education (ppt)
On-Line Communities
Emerge: A Student Affairs Response
Molly Kinne & Liz Barnett, Ohio University
Students are using computers not only to communicate with each other but also to create social networks of friends and dating relationships. Student affairs professionals are commonly faced with responding and utilizing pop culture to reach students. This session will explore the newest trend in Higher Education: online communities. Specifically, we will focus on a growing trend ³the facebook² (http://www.thefacebook.com) and address positive and negative responses associate with it and the influence on campus culture.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New
Professionals
Location: Bishop Chase
HANDOUTS: Online Communities
Emerge Cover Sheet (pdf)
Online Communities Emerge
Handout (pdf)
Online Communities Emerge
Resources (pdf)
Supporting Students
Academically in the Residence Halls
Jenny Hall-Jones, Heather Allebach & Beth Henke, Ohio University
Since 1996 when George Kuh and ACPAıs Student Learning Imperative focused student affairs to promote a seamless learning environment, programs across the country have been working to forge bonds with the academic side of institutions while continuing to support students both inside and outside the classroom. This program will share ways Ohio University has accomplished this mission; highlighting the creation of a scholarıs complex, academic ³interventions² for students below a 2.0 gpa, and study incentives.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New Professionals
Location: Alexander Morrison
Relationships between
Student Involvement, Self-Efficacy and Academic Achievement
Sandra Emerick, Cleveland State University
A research study conducted with 563 undergraduate college students found that, when measuring student involvement using three constructs (quantity, quality and connection); there is a relationship between certain types of involvement and studentsı self-efficacy and academic achievement as measured by gpa. Implications extend to student affairs practitioners interested in the effects of out-of-classroom involvement and student success. This session will present the details of the study, provide recommendations for advising students, and open discussion of self-efficacy and student involvement theory.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New
Professionals
Location: Stansbury
HANDOUTS: Relationships
between student involvement and student self
Mid-Level Professionals
Roundtable
Kerry Jones, Heidelberg College, Moderator
Location: John Snow
Targeting Alcohol
Assessment with College Alcohol Offenders
Deborah Jackson, Youngstown State University
Student affairs professionals often assume the responsibility of assessing student alcohol offendersı alcohol risk and making decisions regarding discipline and/or treatment. Informed decisions must be made regarding discipline and treatment. Participants will leave the presentation with 1) a working knowledge of common assessment practices 2) an introduction to commonly used assessment instruments 3) the appropriateness of these instruments for use with college students, and 4) related liability concerns.
Intended Audience: Senior Student Affairs Officers,
Mid-Level Managers
Location: Adams
Maximizing Your Potential:
Practical Advice from a 20-something Dean
James A. Troha, Heidelberg College
While not in his twenties anymore, Jim first became a Dean of Students at the age of 26 and is now in his 10th year as a senior student affairs officer. Now at Heidelberg College as Vice President for Enrollment and Student Affairs, Jim will share some of his own professional experiences (good and bad) while helping new professionals and graduate students develop strategies to capitalize on your and quickly become a source of service and leadership to their institutions and to the student affairs profession.
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Worthington Ballroom
HANDOUTS: Maximizing
Your Potential (ppt)
SESSION 6 (Friday, February 3rd,
10:45-11:45 am)
Ready. Set. Lead: Hitting
the Mark with New Leadership Programs
Jen Conti & Mandy Powell, Ohio Dominican University
The co-curricular experience is a relatively new aspect of campus life at Ohio Dominican University. This year, the Student Activities Office has been developing the foundation of a new leadership initiative the Panther Leadership Academy. In this session, participants will learn about the different aspects of the program and how we have begun to create the program. Participants will also have the opportunity to share their experiences and leave with new ideas to enhance their own programs.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New Professionals
Location: Griswold A
HANDOUTS: Ready Set Lead
(ppt)
Campus Games: A
Collaborative Community Building Approach
Molly Kinne, Mike Hess, Jenny Hall-Jones & Heather
Allebach, Ohio University
Looking for a program that accomplishes Teamwork, Collaboration and Community development? Look no further - ³University Green Games,² a program developed by Residence Life Staff at Ohio University, does just that. Floor sections participate as a team in a series of events during the second week of school for prizes and prestige. Join us for a presentation on our ³games² and how to successfully implement your ³games² on your campus.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New Professionals
Location: Kilbourne
The Challenge of Challenge
and Support
Elizabeth (Annie) Russell, Ohio University
This session will focus on the unique challenges that lie within the concepts of challenging and supporting our students in and through their development. The session will be a discussion format that focuses on new professionals and graduate students. Participants will walk away with tangible strategies for how to approach students and translate theory into practice.
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Potter Wright
Customer Service: Hitting
the Target with Your Recurve or Compound Bow
Robin W. Gagnow, Baldwin-Wallace College
A large part of customer service success is creating a transparent experience through the delivery of quality service, by creating an environment in which you can train your staff on the importance of establishing a positive and professional first impression and showing that you care about the customers and in meeting customers needs at all levels of the college or university. What bow style will give you the best results: Recurve or Compound Customer Service?
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Bishop Chase
HANDOUT: Customer Service (doc)
Making It on a Dime: How
the Experiences of Low Income Students Can Inform Our Work
Anne Hornak & Natalie Jackson, University of Toledo
Between 1981 and 1994, tuition costs rose 153% at public universities and 200% at private universities (Kadison & DiGeronimo, 2004). College students are struggling to pay tuition and making tough choices about how to meet this financial gap. This program will present preliminary findings from an ongoing study of the experiences of working poor college students. Participants will have an opportunity to explore how their roles on campus can best meet the needs of these students.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers, New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Alexander Morrison
HANDOUTS: Making it on a
dime Presentation (ppt)
Hitting the Bullıs Eye:
The Arrow First-Year Experience
Gina Vance, Baldwin-Wallace College
Leslie Monaco, Ursuline College
Have you been charge with creating an initiative or program, but the obstacles seem insurmountable? Have you identified student needs, but are struggling to translate that into a program that captures your target audience? Ursuline College developed a First-year Experience program based on identified student needs and without support of faculty. A collaborative and creative approach captured the students for the program. Learn about this program and develop strategies for overcoming obstacles on your campus.
Intended Audience: New Professionals, Graduate Students
Location: Stansbury
HANDOUTS: Hitting the
Bullıs Eye Presentation Packet (doc)
Hitting the Bullıs Eye (ppt)
Just Plain Talk about
Doctoral Programs
Carolyn Palmer, Bowling Green State University
Is a doctoral program for you? If so, when, where, and in what field should you pursue a doctorate? Part-time or full-time? With what financial, family, job-related, and other realities taken into consideration? What could you contribute? How could you benefit? Please join your colleagues who have, who are in the process of getting, and who have decided not to get doctorates for a discussion of theseand your ownquestions about doctoral programs.
Intended Audience: All Conference Participants
Interested in the Topic
Location: Adams
Do We Dare Slow Down?
Taking the Time to Assess
Lori Young, Judith Olson-Fallon & James Eller, Case
Western Reserve University
As busy Student Affairs professionals, assessing our programs and services sometimes innocently meanders to the bottom of a tireless ³To Do² list. Learn how one department approaches assessment to ensure quality service and student satisfaction, as well as to meet student needs. Presenters will provide an overview of assessment, how to assess established programs, and how to use assessment to enhance or expand existing programs and services. Handouts include a bibliography and sample assessment tools.
Intended Audience: Mid-Level Managers
Location: Worthington Ballroom
HANDOUTS: Do
We Dare Slow Down (ppt)