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EXEMPLARY COMPETENCIES

ADVISING and SUPPORTING

The knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to providing advising and support to individuals and groups through direction, feedback, critique, referral, and guidance. By developing advising and supporting strategies that take into account self-knowledge and the needs of others, we play critical roles in advancing the holistic wellness of ourselves, our students, and our colleagues.

ORGANIZATIONAL and HUMAN RESOURCES

The management of institutional human capital, financial, and physical resources by challenging one’s self to build new skills in the selection, supervision, motivation, and formal evaluation of staff; resolution of conflict; management of the politics of organizational discourse; and the effective application of management strategies and techniques.

TECHNOLOGY

Using digital tools, resources, and technologies for the advancement of student learning, development, and success as well as the improved performance of student affairs professionals.  Also, the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for digital literacy and digital citizenship within higher ed. communities.

PROFICIENT COMPETENCIES

LAW, POLICY, and GOVERNANCE

Includes the knowledge, skills, and dispositions relating to policy development processes used in various contexts, the application of legal constructs, compliance/policy issues, and the understanding of governance structures and their impact on one’s professional practice.

LEADERSHIP

Both the individual role of a leader and the leadership process of individuals working together to envision, plan, and affect change in organizations and respond to broad-based constituencies and issues. This can include working with students, student affairs colleagues, faculty, and community members.

PERSONAL and ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS

Involves the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to develop and maintain integrity in one’s life and work; this includes thoughtful development, critique, and adherence to a holistic and comprehensive standard of ethics and commitment to one’s own wellness and growth through reflection and self-authorship.

STUDENT LEARNING and DEVELOPMENT

Addresses the concepts and principles of student development and learning theory. This includes the ability to apply theory to improve and inform student affairs and teaching practice

FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES

SOCIAL JUSTICE AND INCLUSION

Both the process and a goal which includes the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to create learning environments that foster the equitable participation of all groups while seeking to address and acknowledge issues of oppression, privilege, and power.

VALUES, PHILOSOPHY, and HISTORY

Connecting the history, philosophy, and values of the student affairs profession to one’s current professional practice.  Through understanding the foundations of the profession to direct current and future research, scholarship, and practice so that it can change and grow.

ASSESSMENT, EVALUATION, and RESEARCH

The ability to design, conduct, critique, and use various assessment, evaluation, and research methodologies and the results obtained from them, to utilize these processes and their results to inform practice, and to shape the political and ethical climate surrounding these processes and their uses in higher education.

ACPA: College Student Educators International & NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (2015). Professional competency areas for student affairs educators. Washington, D.C.: Authors

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