The Professional Student Affairs Administrator

About this book

Many student affairs practitioners have come to understand that for higher education to realize its educational potential and contribute to making its host nations more humane and just, all components of the enterprise must apply principles of student learning as affirmed by the Joint Task Force on Student Learning's Powerful Partnerships statement sponsored by the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA): Realizing the full benefit [of the application of priciples of learning] . . . to the practice of teaching, the development of curricula, the design of learning environments, and the assessment of learning . . depends upon collaborative efforts between academic and student and affairs professionals-and beyond.