Event Title
Invited Addresses -Thinking Outside the (Classroom) Box: The Role of Student Affairs in Student Success
Location
Room 168, Campus Center Lower Level, Univerity of Massachusetts - Amherst
Event Website
http://www.umass.edu/studentsuccessconference/
Start Date
19-9-2014 1:45 PM
End Date
19-9-2014 3:00 PM
Description
We know that Student Affairs plays a key role in student success. Please come join us for a dialogue about best practices and key considerations for student affairs professionals to support student success. We will be exploring: 1) What it means to support the Whole Student; 2) What effective collaboration looks like; 3) The critical impact of Multiple Identities on student success; 4) Innovation in a time of budget constraints; 5) The importance of assessment and evaluation. In addition, we will highlight two specific efforts from the UMass campus, the Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success (CMASS) and UMass Phallacies.
Invited Addresses -Thinking Outside the (Classroom) Box: The Role of Student Affairs in Student Success
Room 168, Campus Center Lower Level, Univerity of Massachusetts - Amherst
We know that Student Affairs plays a key role in student success. Please come join us for a dialogue about best practices and key considerations for student affairs professionals to support student success. We will be exploring: 1) What it means to support the Whole Student; 2) What effective collaboration looks like; 3) The critical impact of Multiple Identities on student success; 4) Innovation in a time of budget constraints; 5) The importance of assessment and evaluation. In addition, we will highlight two specific efforts from the UMass campus, the Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success (CMASS) and UMass Phallacies.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/studentsuccess/2014/Schedule/5
Comments
Tom Schiff, Ed.D, was recently named as Director of the new Men and Masculinities Center at UMass. Prior to that, he was a Health Educator at the UMass Center for Health Promotion for 12 years, including being interim lead for close to 2 years. Tom has over thirty years of experience as an educator, counselor, trainer, and consultant. His work at UMass has included a focus on men's health, violence prevention, outreach to International students, addressing racial health disparities, tobacco education and cessation, and a host of other topics. He has a particular expertise in working with men on issues of health, leadership development, violence prevention, sexual harassment, sexism, and homophobia. His work ranges from residential treatment with abused boys, psychiatric and substance abuse rehabilitation work, organization development and human relations for schools, businesses, and non-profits, violence and substance abuse prevention for high school and junior high school students, and more. He also has taught in the Social Justice Education program, Public Health, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst.
Oscar Collins is the Associate Director of Academic Support at the Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success, UMass. Oscar completed his Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Student Affairs Administration in 1997 at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Oscar’s student affairs career has spanned over 15 years where he has been at various institutions including the University of Massachusetts which is where he has spent most of his career. Oscar’s focus is working with underrepresented student populations such as: under-represented minorities, first generation and low-income students. In addition to his formal education, Oscar is trained in social justice theory with a focus on intergroup dialogue.