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Title: Creating Sustainable Careers in Student Affairs
Author : Margaret W. Sallee
Release Date : January 29, 2020
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 13406 KB

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This book argues that the current structure of student affairs work is not sustainable, as it depends on the notion that employees are available to work non-stop without any outside responsibilities, that is, the Ideal Worker Norm. The field places inordinate burdens on staff to respond to the needs of students, often at the expense of their own families and well-being.

Student affairs professionals can meet the needs of their students without being overworked. The problem, however, is that ideal worker norms pervade higher education and student affairs work, thus providing little incentive for institutions to change. The authors in this book use ideal worker norms in conjunction with other theories to interrogate the impact on student affairs staff across functional areas, institutional types, career stage, and identity groups.

The book is divided into three sections; chapters in the first section of the book examine various facets of the structure of work in student affairs, including the impact of institutional type and different functional areas on employees’ work-lives. Chapters in the second section examine the personal toll that working in student affairs can take, including emotional labor’s impact on well-being. The final section of the book narrows the focus to explore how different identity groups, including mothers, fathers, and people of color, navigate work/life issues. Challenging ideal worker norms, all chapters offer implications for practice for both individuals and institutions.

Foreword—Kristen A. Renn

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Problematizing the Ideal Worker in Student Affairs—Margaret W. Sallee

Part One: The Structure of Student Affairs Work

1) How the Structure and Demands of Student Affairs Reflect Ideal Worker Norms and Influence Work-Life Integration—Laura Isdell and Lisa Wolf-Wendel

2) “That’s the Job”: Agency and Control in Greek Life, Student Activities, and Campus Recreation—Benjamin B. Stubbs

3) Work-Life Integration in Student Affairs: A Closer Look at Housing and Residence Life—Amy S. Hirschy and Shannon D. Staten

4) The Influence of Institutional Type and Socialization Processes on Ideal Worker Norms of Student Affairs Professionals—C. Casey Ozaki and Anne M. Hornak

5) Problematizing Socialization in Student Affairs Graduate Training—Rosemary J. Perez

Part Two: The Toll of Student Affairs Work

6) Whose Ideal Worker? Student Affairs and Self-Care in the Neoliberal Academy—Pamela Graglia, Karla Pérez-Vélez, and D-L Stewart

7) Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in Student Affairs—Moly A. Mistretta and Alison L. DuBois

8) Emotional Labor and Well-Being—R. Jason Lynch and Kerry L. B. Klima

Part Three: How Various Identity Groups Navigate Student Affairs Work

9) Disclosure, Inclusion, and Consequences for LGBTQ Student Affairs Professionals—Carrie A. Kortegast

10) (En)Counterspaces: An Analysis of Working Conditions for Student Affairs: Professionals of Color in an Un-Ideal World—Ginny Jones Boss and Nicole Bravo

11) The Classed Construct of Student Affairs Work—Sonja Ardoin

12) Interrogating the “Ideal” New Professional in Student Affairs—Melanie Lee and Megan Karbley

13) Fathers in Student Affairs: Navigating a Gendered Organization—Margaret W. Sallee, Alyssa Stefanese Yates, and Michael Venturiello

14) Work-Life Integration: Women Administrators in Student Affairs and Higher Education Managing Work and Family—Sarah Marshall

Conclusion: Reimagining Student Affairs—Margaret W. Sallee

About the Contributors

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