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Pedagogies
Outside the Classroom
By Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy, Executive Director of NASPA, Student Affairs
Administrators in Higher Education
As Executive Director of NASPA, I frequently speak with student affairs
educators and administrators about unusual challenges in their work
that often become "teachable moments" and extraordinary learning experiences
for students. Lessons are learned when students are held accountable
for their actions. The most immediate and obvious examples are when
students become actors in the college or universities' judicial system
due to cheating, underage drinking, disruptive behavior in the classroom,
and similar infractions. Resolutions of these situations are relatively
easy because institutional policies are in the student handbook and
the consequences of violating them are firm and usually without exception.
Generally, the student accepts the sanctions for irresponsible behavior
and learns from negative reinforcement. For student affairs administrators,
more often than not, encounters with students that are the most difficult
to facilitate are those where there is disagreement that involves deeply
felt and long-held beliefs that leave little room for compromise and
empathy....
Introducing Campus Women LEAD
By Judith White, Assistant Vice President, Campus Services, Duke University
AAC&U serves as the administrative home of the National Initiative
for Women in Higher Education and has provided NIWHE with a quarterly
column in OCWW for the past two and a half years. Since NIWHE's
origin in 2000, a core of leaders has sought to create a strategic
focus and grassroots structure to fully tap women's leadership
for the challenges higher education faces, not only in creating equitable
opportunities for women on campus, but also in transforming the academy
to meet the educational needs of all its students and the urgent civic
needs of our shared global community. In her article, NIWHE's
Chair, Judith S. White from Duke University, unveils NIWHE's
new name, identifies strategic areas for common work, and seeks to
engage campus women across all domains and in all positions. Campus
Women Lead invites OCWW readers to respond to this vision and participate
in ongoing CWL work.
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