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Acknowledging Progress: Round II

October 31, 2011
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The title of this post references a reflection from about this time last year, and ironically draws upon many of the same ideas from a new perspective.  Click to read “Acknowledging Progress.” The second year of graduate school feels different.  Even amongst all kinds of new challenges, opportunities, and perspective, something even more significant stands [...]

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Professional Development on a Graduate School Budget

September 2, 2011
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Free Resources for Professional Development for Student Affairs Graduate Students Between Ed Cabellon‘s clarion call for #sagrow students to describe their professional development needs and aspirations and a conversation I had earlier this week with some of the first year Graduate Hall Directors at A&M about “getting tapped into Student Affairs ‘hot topics’,” I thought [...]

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Preparing to be an #sagrad before you “become one”

July 12, 2011

I am often inspired by the conversations that take place within my Twitter stream, and this post bears no exception. I caught a question put out by Nathan Victoria asking “what should new #sagrad be doing now to prepare for first year?” in the context of the conversations taking place through the NUFPSLI. I should [...]

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Resume Tips for #sagrads & new pros: A storify thread

July 1, 2011

After the overwhelming response I received from the few questions I posed regarding resume formatting & style, I wanted to share the great insight I received! Do you have more tips you’d like to share?  Reply to the questions or posts! View “Resume tips for New Pros” on Storify

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What will I be doing in a year?

June 22, 2011
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Okay, so while I can’t “build my dream job” with a start date to match, I can dream, right?  As my first year of graduate school and papers, presentations (did I mention papers?) drift into the rearview, I am beginning to reflect more and more on my last year, the progress I have made, the [...]

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The Digital Cohort

September 13, 2010
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With the drastic expansion of the #SAchat community over the last several months, many professionals have found value in specific conversations targeted towards their functional area. In doing so, they create new communities, new support systems, and allow for more refined conversations about topics at the core of their daily work. In watching these communities grow, and finding value in many of them myself and I approached grad school, I was intrigued about passing comments about the creation of undergraduate chats related to student affairs.

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