SA Professional Competencies
This competency area addresses the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required of a leader, with or without positional authority.
What is Leadership (LEAD)?
Located at Clemson University, this site primarily focuses on coordinating new student orientation, planning annual family events on campus, and reviewing student life issues on campus.
What is Student Transitions and Family Programs?
You must complete this many hours to satisfy your practicum requirement.
What is 75?
For their practicum experience, this student is placed with the Office of the Chancellor (USC Upstate).
Who is Sariel?
This competency area involves the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to develop and maintain integrity in one's life and work.
What is Personal and Ethical Foundations (PEF)?
Located at Southern Wesleyan University, this site is committed to investing in student athletes' lives with purposeful relationships driven by spiritual development, academic success, community service, and athletic excellence.
What is the Athletics Department?
This is the faculty or staff at the field experience site who oversees the administrative details of the student's experience.
Who is the site supervisor?
For their practicum experience, this student is placed with the Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience (Clemson)?
Who is Paola?
This competency area focuses on the use of digital tools, resources, and technologies for the advancement of student learning, development, and success.
What is Technology (TECH)?
Located at Furman University, this site seeks to create a living and learning environment that fosters belonging for historically underrepresented students and stimulates all students to thoughtfully reflect on diversity and inclusion in the liberal arts.
What is the Center for Inclusive Communities?
This program requirement provides students with a more in-depth experience after the practicum and mandates that students complete 125 hours of supervised experience in a professional role.
For their practicum experience, this student is placed with the Office of Community and Ethical Standards (Clemson)?
Who is Lindsey?
This competency area addresses the knowledge, skills, and dispositions acquired through providing students direction, feedback, critique, referral, and guidance.
What is Advising and Support (A/S)?
Located at Furman University, this site focuses on providing housing options for all students for all four years and currently has 96% of its students living on campus.
What is Housing and Residence Life?
This required document outlines the responsibilities of the site supervisor, student, and university faculty supervisor.
What is the Field Experience Contract?
For their practicum experiences, these 2 students are placed with the College Preparation and Outreach Program (Clemson).
Who are Zachary and Ali?
This competency area addresses the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to create learning environments that foster equitable participation of all groups and seeks to address issues of oppression, privilege, and power.
What is Social Justice and Inclusion (SJI)?
Located at Clemson University, this site employs a learning-by-doing model, whereby students are afforded the opportunity to learn and work under a mentor in their field of study.
What is the Cooperative Education Program?
The student affairs competencies that will be developed during the practicum and internship experiences have been adopted from these 2 professional associations.
What are NASPA and ACPA?
For their practicum experiences, these 2 students are both placed in the Athletics Department - one at Furman University and another at Southern Wesleyan University?
Who are Sydney and Makayla?