It’s Fall 2020 and we are living through a global pandemic. We are witnessing and experiencing racial violence and police brutality. Our friends and colleagues have been laid off or furloughed. We are worried about our own financial security. Our campuses have become labs for coronavirus experiments. It’s a consequential and contentious election year. The job we applied for is not the job we are doing. We have pivoted in our roles more times than we can count. We have had to take extraordinary new measures both personally and professionally. We are being pulled emotionally and physically in many different directions. So, how do we continue to show up? How do we show up for our students, our colleagues, our supervisors, our teams? And, ever so important, how do we show up for ourselves?
This town hall format around “working through Fall 2020” will be moderated by the TPE Committee. Our personal and professional lives have never intersected more and we cannot “leave our personal feelings” at the (virtual) door. We can be grateful to have a job while still acknowledging how hard this all is to endure. The TPE Committee, led by Chair Brenda Ice and Chair-Elect Kirby R. Gibson, will provide brief thoughts around showing up for work during a time of national distress before opening the session up for questions or comments. This town hall is a place and space to connect with other student affairs professionals and to share your feelings and experiences around showing up in fall 2020.
Presented by the 2020-2021 TPE Committee
Chair: Brenda Ice - Assistant Dean, Director of Campus Life - Scripps College
Chair-Elect: Kirby R. Gibson, Assistant Director of Residence Education, Michigan State University
Check out the TPE YouTube Channel for videos, webinars, and other resources to assist candidates in the job search and career development process! Past webinars from this fall can be found on the YouTube page including:
Job Search 101
Resume 101
Navigating TPE on a Budget
Candidate Orientation
Navigating TPE with a Marginalized Identity
The COVID-19 pandemic hit higher education hard, and student affairs hiring came to almost a complete stop. More student affairs professionals, and in particular Spring 2020 masters graduates, are either unemployed or employed in fields outside of higher education. Hear the story of a student affairs professional who encountered difficulty in the job search process and how she ultimately landed a job outside of the Student Affairs profession. Learn how she found it, and also how she stays connected to the field. Her 15-minute personal story about her job search will be followed by 15-minutes of Q&A. The entire event is short, simply 30-minutes to take a break, learn, and connect with others.
Featured Story Teller: Nikiah Campbell, Senior College Persistence Advisor, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity
Given the current difficult multiple realities of Fall 2020, managing from the middle is harder than ever before. Often pulled between advocating for your team, but also having to implement other leadership decisions, mid-managers have to switch back and forth between different ends of experience and power dynamics, while trying to simultaneously please two differing perspectives. Being a middle manager is hard during a “precedented” year, but add in a global pandemic that resulted in smaller staffs, new and changing roles, and constant uncertainty, it’s really hard. It’s very difficult to stay self-motivated, yet alone manage an (unmotivated) team. And, it’s only September. Given resources - both financial and human - are on short supply, how do managers motivate staff members and leverage the capacity of their team?
This 15-minute personal story about motivating teams will be followed by 15-minutes of Q&A. The entire event is short, simply 30-minutes to take a break, learn, and connect with others.
Featured Story Teller: Christie Anglade, Director for Housing and Residential Education, Emerson College
It’s Fall 2020 and we are living through a global pandemic. We are witnessing and experiencing racial violence and police brutality. Our friends and colleagues have been laid off or furloughed. We are worried about our own financial security. Our campuses have become labs for coronavirus experiments. It’s a consequential and contentious election year. The job we applied for is not the job we are doing. We have pivoted in our roles more times than we can count. We have had to take extraordinary new measures both personally and professionally. We are being pulled emotionally and physically in many different directions. So, how do we continue to show up? How do we show up for our students, our colleagues, our supervisors, our teams? And, ever so important, how do we show up for ourselves?
This town hall format around “working through Fall 2020” will be moderated by the TPE Committee. Our personal and professional lives have never intersected more and we cannot “leave our personal feelings” at the (virtual) door. We can be grateful to have a job while still acknowledging how hard this all is to endure. The TPE Committee, led by Chair Brenda Ice and Chair-Elect Kirby R. Gibson, will provide brief thoughts around showing up for work during a time of national distress before opening the session up for questions or comments. This town hall is a place and space to connect with other student affairs professionals and to share your feelings and experiences around showing up in fall 2020.
Presented by the 2020-2021 TPE Committee
Chair: Brenda Ice - Assistant Dean, Director of Campus Life - Scripps College
Chair-Elect: Kirby R. Gibson, Assistant Director of Residence Education, Michigan State University
Are my housing and residence life experience useful in different departments? Can I move from student conduct to student activities? What is the transition to a different department like? Join the Candidate Development Team to learn more about transitioning to a different department leveraging your current (and useful) skills! LAst year, 63% of TPE Onsite jobs were in Housing and Residence Life. And, almost 40% were in other functional areas. At TPE, you can apply for and interview for jobs in many different functional areas. This session will feature a panel of student affairs professionals who will detail their experiences transitioning into and out of different departments so you can be more ready to interview for different types of positions.
Previously Recorded : https://ufl.zoom.us/rec/share/z8NvF_LorHxOGa
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In this virtual workshop you will hear about what it is like to conduct a virtual search, perhaps during the time of a pandemic. You will hear about Hiring Trends, Successful Practices for Navigation of the Virtual Job Search, and Articulating Your Value.
Wondering how in the world you make connections and network with others virtually? And are you curious as to have an online professional presence? In this virtual workshop, you receive all of this information and more from our TPE Team!
Hear from practitioners about job searching with multiple intersecting identities. This discussion focus on lived experiences, triumphs, and challenges faced during the job search process.
It’s now May and you STILL haven’t heard anything. Don’t fret! Many candidates are in the same boat and are fixated on waiting by the phone (or computer) to hear a response. At least I was. The post-interview wait can be agonizing, especially if you feel like you did very well. Some of you may have heard back from employers, and that’s great! For those of you who still haven’t heard anything, we will discuss the reasons why that may be! View this previously recorded virtual session as a part of the NASPA Virtual Conference for Emerging Professionals from May 7th, 2020.
