Competency Level: Intermediate

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Competency Description: Involves knowledge, skills, and dispositions that connect the history, philosophy, and values of the student affairs profession to one’s current professional practice. This competency area embodies the foundations of the profession from which current and future research, scholarship, and practice will change and grow. The commitment to demonstrating this competency area ensures that our present and future practices are informed by an understanding of the profession’s history, philosophy, and values.

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Outcomes: 

• Through critical examination, explain how today’s practice is informed by historical context.

• Engage in service to the profession and to student affairs professional associations.

• Teach the principles of the student affairs profession to staff while incorporating the equity, diversity, and inclusion of varying identities and global perspectives.

• Acknowledge, critically question, and bring together diverging philosophies of student affairs practice.

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Education: 

• EAF 461 - Student Development Theory In Higher Education

• EAF 462 - Organization & Administration Student Affairs Functions in Higher Education

• WGS 490 - Feminist Theory and Methodologies

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Experience Documentation: I've learned so much about the history of higher education as a whole, college administration policy formation, and characteristics of individual institutions. The most impactful experience I have had so far during my course work in CSPA has been during my group tour to Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

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As an all-women, religiously-affiliated, primarily first-generation, Hispanic serving institution, Alverno has a deep history of overcoming barriers. To understand Alverno, one must understand the context of the world around it and must critically question the status-quo to continue to move the needle on serving these underrepresented communities.

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