Student Affairs 101
This division supports students' non-academic growth and holistic development.
What is Student Affairs?
They design and deliver curriculum, and supervise research students.
Who are faculty?
Collaboration between Academic and Student Affairs can improve this key student outcome.
What is student success or retention?
Graduate students often struggle with this common feeling when institutional supports are unclear.
What is isolation or confusion?
This phrase describes how theory helps guide the practical work done in Student Affairs.
What is theory to practice?
This area within Student Affairs often supports student with stress, balance, and mental health
What is Student Wellness?
Faculty members are typically responsible for a 40/40/20 split of this.
What are teaching, research, and service?
This term describes separate administrative structures that limit collaboration between divisions.
What are silos?
Graduate students often feel this when they go back to school after a long time away.
What is imposter syndrome?
Theory helps practitioners make decisions based on this kind of reasoning, rather than assumptions or personal experience alone.
What is evidence-based practice?
Name one example of a Student Affairs service that directly supports graduate students.
What is academic - writing support
- professional development
- academic advising
- other
Graduate supervision falls primarily under this division.
What is Academic Affairs?
Name one Canadian researcher who has called for stronger collaboration between Academic and Student Affairs?
Who is Kathleen Clarke?
Graduate students often juggle multiple priorities such as research, family, and work.
What is work-life balance or multiple roles?
This kind of learning happens when students apply what they learn in class to real-life situations, often supported by both academic and student affairs.
What is experiential learning?
Student Affairs professionals are guided by this approach that views learning as occurring inside and outside the classroom.
What is the holistic approach?
When professors are unaware of campus supports, graduate students often experience this consequence.
What is isolation or lack of access to resources?
Collaboration depends on this kind of open communication between departments.
What is trust or dialogue?
Success in graduate school is most sustainable when this kind of collaboration is strong.
What is collaboration between student and academic affairs?
When Student Affairs professionals use theories to plan programs, they are doing this.
What is applying theory to practice?
According to Arnold & Clarke (2023), Canadian Student Affairs is shifting toward this model that integrates academic and personal development.
What is a student-centered or integrated model?
Academic departments can differ in focus and structure because of this.
What is institutional diversity or culture?
What is mutual respect and understanding?
This relationship is one of the strongest predictors of graduate student success.
What is the supervisor-graduate student relationship?
Collaboration between Academic and Student Affairs helps connect classroom learning to this broader type of development.
What is holistic student development?