May 2010 - Campus Activities Network Blog

  • Confessions of a Campus Activities Professional Part 2, Good Gosh what else can I possibly learn?!?!?!

    So, at this point, I have talked a lot about the periphery I feel like so let me talk a little bit about actual engagement with the students. There is a lot to learn there as well and after all, if you aren't learning every day, well, then I would suggest some deep thought. For the new advisors out there, probably the best lesson to learn is you are not a do’er anymore, you are now a facilitator. That, in and of itself, can be a hard transition. I was lucky that the first board I worked with I had literally “moved up” from that board. Several of the students sitting on the...
  • My First Year as a Student Activities Professional – Part 1

    Stardate 5/3/2010…greetings from a tech school where LAN parties draw more attendance than comedians and software/hardware engineers fear talking to dental hygiene students. When engineers wear Carhartts and math classes abound! Trapped somewhere in the midst of all the enormously intelligent health and engineering majors, I found myself, a meager communication student, wondering how I would ever fit in. After finding my niche in student government I began to realize that working in student affairs as a career wouldn’t be half bad, after all, I’d had a lot of experience as an...
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