Library Resources for OC Employees

Introduces and explains the Collaborative Framework--a tool higher education professionals can use to allocate resources and ensure appropriate access and a sense of belonging for students with disabilities.

Considers how trauma manifests for postsecondary college students and how colleges and universities can implement trauma-informed practice in student affairs.

This groundbreaking book examines a concept that has gone unexamined for too long: The concept of "job fit" in the student affairs profession.

Design thinking is an innovative process that can change the way higher education and student affairs operate. Design thinking approaches, with their focus on stakeholder needs (as opposed to systemic norms), collaborative solutions building, and structured empathy activities can offer a concrete tool to disrupt harmful systems of power and oppression. Design thinking as a process is not a magic solution to equity problems, though it can be a powerful tool to approach the development of solutions that can address inequity.

Although the construct of sense of belonging is complex and multilayered, a consistent theme across the chapters in this book is that the relationship between sense of belonging and intersectionality of identity cannot be ignored, and must be integrated into any approach to fostering belonging. The editors of this volume brought it into being to serve as a single point of reference in an emerging and promising field of study.

Offers college administrators, legal counsel, and researchers the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the legal implications of administrative decision making.

Higher education professionals are in a unique position to support, coach, and teach strategies with students to manage anxiety and emotional distress and improve well-being. Drawing on experience from the disciplines of Mental Health, Counseling, and Student Affairs, the authors provide evidence-based practices and tangible techniques supported by the latest brain-based research and neuroscience

Opportunities and challenges, student characteristics, and the role of Student Affairs in excellence

This book presents a comprehensive range of strategies that provide the fundamental supports that poor and working-class students need to succeed while at the same time dismantling the inequitable barriers that make college difficult to navigate.

Developing alternative student development frameworks and models, this groundbreaking book provides student affairs practitioners, as well as faculty, with illuminating perspectives and viable approaches for understanding the development of today's diverse student populations, and for building the foundation for their acade

For much of the twentieth century, the definition of success for most community colleges revolved around student retention and graduation. In this book, respected community college leaders, researchers, and innovators argue that student success is about redesigning community colleges in a manner that is consistent with each college's mission, goals, student population, and resources. Concluding that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to increasing student success, authors provide concrete examples of effective student success initiatives in a variety of community college settings.