e-Value8

This is the latest edition of e-Value8, a monthly newsletter brought to you by the Division of Student Affairs and University Planning Value-U committee. Each month we highlight one of the eight student affairs values and explore how each is happening in the Division and what we might do personally and as a department to continue to practice each value. After distribution each newsletter will be archived on the SAUP blackboard site for future reference.

“What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity.
In the end there are no certain answers.”

Martina Horner
(President, Radcliffe College)

We value...
an emphasis on learning.

Learning is acquired wisdom, knowledge, or skills; to learn is to gain comprehension or mastery through study or experience. Examples of learning in action include:

• Support of and resources for professional development on and off the campus
  
  
• Emphasis of our roles as educators in the total development of students
  
  
• Development of learning contracts for student and graduate staff
  
  
• Intentional training and orientation programs for new staff

e-Value8 your alignment as an

Individual

• What have I done recently that demonstrates this value is important to me?
  
• What have I done inadvertently to demonstrate this value is not important to me?
  
• What do I need to do to more fully demonstrate this value?
  
• What responsibility have I taken for my own learning?
  
• • How do I personally emphasize my role as an educator? What more can I do in my job to contribute to student development and learning.
  

e-Value8 your alignment as a

Department

• How does our department communicate the educational and developmental nature of its programs and services? What more can the department do?
  
• In what ways does our department recognize, and reward learning? What are additional ways in which this value could be advanced?
  
• What general and specific learning outcomes are at the core of our department? How do we measure our effectiveness in achieving these outcomes?
  
• What evidence do we have of support and resources for professional development? What more can the department do to help individuals develop as persons and professionals?