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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790019403321

Titolo

New realities in the management of student affairs [[electronic resource] ] : emerging specialist roles and structures for changing times / / edited by Ashley Tull and Linda Kuk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sterling, Va., : Stylus, 2012

ISBN

1-00-344614-0

1-000-97608-4

1-003-44614-0

1-57922-577-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TullAshley <1972->

KukLinda <1950->

Disciplina

371.4

Soggetti

Student affairs services - United States - Administration

Organizational effectiveness - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction, contexts, and current practices with specialist roles and structures -- pt. 2. Emerging specialist roles within student affairs organizations -- pt. 3. Institutional and organizational implications of emerging specialist roles and structures in student affairs organizations.

Sommario/riassunto

Student affairs organizations are at a crossroads. They face expanding enrollments; a concomitant increased need for often more complex services; changing demographics; a growing cohort of nontraditional and first-generation students; shifting and more demanding responsibilities; and increased expectations from the greater campus community, parents, and external constituents. These challenges are intensified by the accelerating speed of advancements in technology, globalization, innovation, and student consumerism; and by the long-term reality of shrinking resources, and limitations on the abi