Graduate Students: Advice for Job Seekers

Juicy Advice for Job Seekers Anticipating that graduate students are looking to find internship placements and employment around this time of year, CCPA would like to offer you – job and internship seekers – both resources and advice to help you in the exciting process of starting and/or re-positioning your professional career in student affairs!  With dozens of cumulative years of experience...

Professional Development Opportunities (April-July 2011)

Professional Development Opportunities (April-July 2011) In hopes to promote professional development here is a list of professional development opportunities in and out of the state and regardless of affiliation. They are in date order and have links attached for ease in signing up: Dates Professional Development Title Type Location Link March 31, 2011 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. (EST)  How...

Starting Out in Student Affairs

By George S. McClellan If you’re just starting out in the student-affairs profession, you will find that the job varies considerably from campus to campus, depending on all sorts of institutional characteristics. That’s important to know because of the tendency—common to all types of colleges and universities—to hire people whose work experience has been at a similar institution. So your first...