CNSA 525 - Student Affairs Administration

(3 credits)
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of student affairs and higher education administration practice. The course will address the various administrative functions for student affairs administrators, such as fiscal and budget management, organizational development, supervision, training, and evaluation of graduate and paraprofessional staff, program planning, needs assessment, fostering partnerships between academic and student affairs, and ways to integrate student development theory into administration policy and development. Students will discuss ways that administrative decision-making impacts student well-being and campus environments and how policies and procedures are created. Offered spring semester.