CSA Digest & Other Blogs to Read

We counted the survey votes and 60% of you would like the Digest to return!  Therefore, the first issue of the Digest will be emailed on Sunday, September 4.  As always, please send your submissions/announcements to me by 8pm on Friday.  If you are not currently on the digest distribution list, please email college.student.affairs@gse.rutgers.edu so that we can add you.

In the meantime, the survey results shed some light on the fact that many our readers just don't know about the whole world of blogging.... there are TONS of blogs out there that you can be reading about higher education, student affairs, etc!  Here are just a few that I personally read and that I recommend you also check out:

The Student Affairs Collaborative: http://thesabloggers.org/
Changing Higher Education: http://www.changinghighereducation.com/
Higher Education and Law: http://www.clhe.org/marketplaceofideas/
Inside Higher Ed: http://www.insidehighered.com/
The Chronicle - Head Count: http://www.insidehighered.com/
The Chronicle - Innovations: http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations
The Chronicle - On Hiring: http://chronicle.com/blogs/onhiring/
Inside the Search: http://studentaffairscom19.blogspot.com/
The Jersey Alliance: http://thejerseyalliance.wordpress.com/

Do any of you have other blog suggestions for our readers?   Leave a comment and let us know what blogs you follow!  

*This will be the last official post for the CSA Blog.  It will not be updated during the year but may possibly return next year as a mode of summer communication.  If you've been following us, thanks for reading the CSA Blog, and have a great year!  

Ryan Stalgaitis '11... on TV!

Ryan Stalgaitis '11, Career Counselor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, is now giving resume advice on a national scale!  Ryan appeared on My9 earlier this month to explain the important part a resume plays for college students who wish to secure that job interview.  To watch the TV clip and to read the article online, visit my9tv.  Congratulations, Ryan!

And a special shout-out to Terek Pierce, a senior at Rutgers, who also was shown in this TV clip.  Terek interns at Campus Information Services and helped the CSA program in creating our marketing video (available on our homepage).  Congratulations, Terek!

Introducing the Student Affairs E-Newsletter

Student Affairs eNews is your one-stop-shop for information, updates, resources and articles about topics related to student affairs in higher education. SAN now offers a free weekly newsletter that will keep you up to date on current issues in the field as well as media updates about breaking news, online trainings and conferences.

Each issue of SAN's E-Newsletter will contain a summary of important events and news from the past week . There will also be a summary of upcoming trainings and professional conferences as well as an easy to follow listing of employment opportunities.

The email version of the newsletter will be sent out weekly. Each newsletter will be archived on their website and can be downloaded as a PDF by the date it was sent. Additionally, each of the four columns and other monthly columns will be easily "browseable" through the drop down menu at their website: www.studentaffairsenews.com.   

NASPA's GBLT Issues Knowledge Community White Paper

Have you conducted research or completed assessment efforts pertaining to GLBT issues?  Are you interested in sharing your results/findings?

The NASPA GLBT Issues Knowledge Community compiles research and/or assessment briefs twice annually. These white papers serve the purpose of disseminating recent findings/results for higher education and student affairs professionals to consider when tailoring programmatic and pedagogical efforts on their campus.

Submission Guidelines:

- Can be recently completed or currently in progress.

- Must pertain to GLBT issues, but can be outside of higher education/student affairs realm (for example: health topics)

- Everybody is eligible to submit.

How to Submit:

Please send the following information to Cindy Kilgo at kilgoc@mailbox.sc.edu by 5:00 p.m. EST on September 9, 2011: Name, Title, University/college, Email address, and Description of research/assessment in 500 – 1,000 words

Further details at http://scr.bi/kgIzsp. Questions? Contact Cindy Kilgo at kilgoc@mailbox.sc.edu.

Call for Article Reviewers

Call for Applications for Reviewers for The Journal of College and University Student Housing

The Journal of College and University Student Housing is now accepting applications for reviewers.  Those chosen to this volunteer position read and provide substantial feedback about manuscripts submitted to the Journal as a part of a three person review team.  Reviewers will edit between 4-6 manuscripts each year.

Reviewers will normally serve for a two to three year term upon selection. No previous experience with a journal is required, just an interest and demonstrated skill in writing and research. The Journal looks for people with a variety of skills and backgrounds on the editorial board, but an understanding of housing/residential life practice is necessary.

To be considered for the Journal reviewer position, submit a letter of intent that discusses your interest and the special skills or abilities you could contribute in this role (research methods, content knowledge), and a resume or curriculum vita. Letters of intent and resume should be submitted electronically to Von Stange, Editor, by September 12, 2011 at von-stange@uiowa.edu

ATIXA - A New Association for Professionals

ATIXA, Association of Title IX Administrators launched today. ATIXA provides a professional association for school and college Title IX Coordinators and administrators who are interested in serving their districts and campuses more effectively. Since 1972, Title IX has proved to be an increasingly powerful leveling tool, helping to advance gender equity in schools and colleges.

Title IX's benefits can be found in promoting equity in academic and athletics programs, preventing hostile environments on the basis of sex, prohibiting sexual harassment and sexual violence, protecting from retaliation and remedying the effects of other gender-based forms of discrimination.

ATIXA Executive Director Brett A. Sokolow, Esq., gave the following statement at the launch event:  “Every school district and college in the United States is required to have a Title IX Coordinator who oversees implementation, training and compliance with Title IX. ATIXA brings campus and district Title IX Coordinators and administrators into professional collaboration to explore best practices, share resources and advance the worthy goal of gender equity in education.”

The April 4^th, 2011 Dear Colleague Letter on campus sexual violence gave us some insight that the role and responsibilities of the Title IX Coordinator are a lot broader and deeper than we thought.  The Coordinator role is complex, sophisticated, and comprehensive.  In honor of the remarkable impact this has already caused in higher education, and will cause in the future to both schools and colleges, ATIXA has chosen to use the term Title IX Administrators to describe its membership, rather than coordinators, to reflect the broad compliance responsibilities that fall on administrators widely in school districts and on college campuses.  

For more information, please visit: http://www.atixa.org/. 

"CSA Weekly Digest or CSA Blog?" Survey

In preparation for the upcoming school year, the CSA program has created a survey to see whether our readers want us to continue the CSA Weekly Digest or the CSA Blog.  This brief survey should take no longer than 3-5 minutes and it will help us to determine which information source is more popular within our CSA community.  You can find the survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T9HJDC8. 

Please complete the survey only one time by Tuesday, August 23 at 5pm.  Thank you in advance for all your help!