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20 October 2008
Educators or Police Officers?
For years, campuses around the country have tried to stop, or at least prohibit, their students from illegally sharing files with other students and downloading copyrighted music on campus. Schools have had to not only designate manpower to fight this Read More...
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17 October 2008
The High Price of College Textbooks
It's nothing new for college students to bring up the high cost of textbooks, but up until this week a website run by an anonymous student was giving students a break by providing pirated versions of their books. The website, Textbook Torrent, was discovered Read More...
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03 October 2008
Update: Univ. of Illinois May Enforce Political Measures on Students
Last week I blogged about the University of Illinois deciding that faculty and staff may not wear political buttons, use bumper stickers or attend on-campus rallies that favor either presidential candidate; now the school may be extending its measures Read More...
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24 September 2008
University of Illinois Tells Employees Not to Express Political Leanings on Campus
InsideHigherEd.com recently posted a story about the University of Illinois sending out an official memo from the ethics office to its faculty, staff and all employees telling them not to attend on-campus political rallies, refrain from having political Read More...
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17 September 2008
Colleges & Universities Crack Down on Off-Campus Violations
by Chris Neiger A little while ago the AP ran a story about colleges and universities extending the enforcement of their conduct codes to students who who commit violations off campus. It's way of making sure students are obeying the conduct codes they Read More...
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01 August 2008
You know what really grinds my gears???
Despite the Family Guy reference in the title, this next article is going to talk about the graduate assistantship process and how one would go about this process. First of all, I think that the NACA National Convention is a GREAT place to interview for Read More...
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15 July 2008
One year down...one more to go!!!
Hello all, Let me take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Evan Schaefer and I am currently a Program Adviser/Graduate Assistant for the University Program Board (UPB) at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, MN. I just completed my first year Read More...
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25 June 2008
The Evolution of a Student Leader
So I struggled with what to write for this last blog. Having already talked about developing leaders in the classroom and then developing student leaders I wasn’t really sure what you all might find interesting. With the help of my supervisor I finally Read More...
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24 June 2008
Developing Student Leaders
Outside of getting them in a classroom and teaching them directly, how do we develop our students into effective leaders? One of the easiest ways to do this is to take the students on our campus who are already in leadership positions and develop their Read More...
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23 June 2008
Student Leadership Classes, where and when to start...
So this is the first blog I’ve ever done so just bear with me as I learn what works and what doesn’t. If any of you have any suggestions I would love to hear them. So my topic this week is on fostering student leadership. With this being a wide open topic Read More...
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18 June 2008
Here are your keys...good luck!
Some of us have started new jobs with that very unsettling version of new employee orientation, "Here are your keys... good luck!" (oh, and sometimes you don't even get keys!) I am so excited to mention that we will be finishing the last step in our staffing Read More...
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18 June 2008
Clouds and Silver Linings
Sure, "see beyond the clouds and find the silver linings..." blah blah blah. Easy to say but hard to believe when you are pulling your hair out trying to manage some kind of staffing crisis. While things may seem bleak when something like this is going Read More...
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16 June 2008
Assistant, Associate and Director of Student Involvement...
One former student (now campus activities professional!) thought it would be amusing to embellish my business card with the title "Director, Associate Director and Assistant Director" during a year when two of my three administrative positions in the Read More...
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10 June 2008
A Guide to Being in Charge
Hello! I'm grateful for the chance to blog a little... the topic is on "supervision" and I'm struggling with some titles. What do you think of... "Who's the Boss?" (wait, taken by a 1980's TV show) "Gaining SUPER-Vision" (this blog will get deleted for Read More...
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27 May 2008
Higher Education Blog - Coming this June
The Higher Education Blog will feature education professionals writing about their knowledge and experience in the campus activities and student development fields. Blogs will cover topics such as: student organization, fostering student leadership, planning Read More...
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