Angst and Hope: Current Issues in Student Affairs Leadership New Directions for Student Services, Number 153 J–B SS Single Issue Student Services Series

Take an in–depth look at current trends, opportunities, and challenges for senior student affairs leaders. This volume focuses on contexts for understanding student affairs leadership and experiences of contemporary student affairs leaders, including issues of concern, such as: affordability and access, student health and well–being, diversity and inclusion, and regulations and compliance. The volume concludes with a discussion of the similarities and differences in the data across the themes and questions and offers some propositions regarding the implications for current and future student affairs leadership.

This is the 153rd volume of this Jossey–Bass higher education quarterly series. An indispensable resource for vice presidents of student affairs, deans of students, student counselors, and other student services professionals, New Directions for Student Services offers guidelines and programs for aiding students in their total development: emotional, social, physical, and intellectual.

EDITORS NOTES 5
Elizabeth J. Whitt, Larry D. Roper, Kent T. Porterfield, Jill E. Carnaghi

1. Past, Present, and Future: Contexts for Current Challenges and Opportunities for Student Affairs Leadership 9
Kent T. Porterfield, Elizabeth J. Whitt

Contexts for identifying and understanding current opportunities and challenges for student affairs leaders are described and a framework for the rest of the sourcebook is offered.

2. What Troubles You? What Keeps You up at Night? 19
Larry D. Roper, Elizabeth J. Whitt

Responses of student affairs leaders to questions about the challenges and obstacles they face in their work are examined and discussed.

3. What Excites You? What Keeps You Going? 39
Elizabeth J. Whitt, Jill E. Carnaghi

Responses of student affairs leaders to questions about the opportunities and joy they find in their work are examined and discussed.

4. Embracing Core Values: Finding Joy in the Challenges of our Work 55
Larry D. Roper, Kent T. Porterfield, Elizabeth J. Whitt, Jill E. Carnaghi

This chapter describes and discusses implications of the experiences of student affairs leaders the challenges and the opportunities, the obstacles and the joy for understanding and facilitating student affairs leadership.

INDEX 69

APPENDICES 73