PROGRAM STATEMENT
The focus of the field of colleges student affairs(CSA) is students -- serving, supporting, and challenging them in the out-of-classroomenvironment, and helping them maximize the educational and developmentalbenefits of their college experience. The skills and special training ofcollege student affairs professionals offer three invaluable contributions:

• To the institution - CSA serves as the primary vehicle for attaining the institution's mission within the cocurriculum.
• To the students - CSA serves as a source of cocurricular services and activities in support of both their curricular educator and their personal growth and maturation.
• To both the institution and its students - CSA is one of the few dominant integrative forces on the campus which strives to interpret the institution holistically to its students, according to their individual needs and aspirations.

The field of CSA is multidisciplinary, fusing information,theories, and approaches gained from education, human relations, counseling,psychology, sociology, business administration, and human organization anddevelopment. The basic processes involved in the CSA Program are assessment ofstudent and institutional needs; the development of reasoned goals to addressidentified needs; and the implementation of programs, policies, and services toaccomplish such goals. More specifically, students in APU'sCollege Student Affairs Program develop their competence in quality programmingand assessment, counseling and personal development, budgeting and fiscalmanagement, legal and ethical issues, effective campus and communityrelationships, managing conflict and crisis as educational leaders, inmulticultural awareness, knowledge and skills in the various forms oftechnology. The program encourages the integration of a Christian world viewwith curriculum and strives to develop leaders who have a well-defined moral,ethical, and spiritual compass. The field-based nature of the program enablesstudents to become actively engaged in professional roles while pursuing theirgraduate degree. This praxis component is essential in developing leaders whounderstand the connections between theory and practice.

The program is offered in two formats. The first is traditional, designed asa two-year residential program for students attending graduate school fulltime. (Students in this program who are employed three-quarters time or more areencouraged to complete the program in three years instead of two.) The secondformat is a summer track for working professionals who are already employed inthe field of college student affairs. Students pursuing this option attendintensive class sessions during two-week periods in the summers, followed byyear-long study projects, to be completed individually. The summer trackrequires three years for completion. Graduates from these programs choose frommany career options including residence life, career development, campusministries, admissions, special student services, counseling and testing,academic support services, student financial services, and records.

PROGRAM MISSION
The graduate program in College Student Affairs at Azusa Pacific Universityexists for the purpose of preparing individuals to become student affairseducators whose special interest is college students and the environments whichaffect their development as whole persons and as scholar-students.

Fundamentally, the focus of the student affairs profession is students --that they be appropriately served, aided, supported, and challenged in thecollege or university environment so that they are better able to maximize theeducational and developmental benefits of their higher education experience.College student affairs stands as a multidisciplinary field -- fusinginformation, theories, and approaches gained from such fields as education,human resources, counseling, psychology, sociology, business administration,theology, and human and organization development. Its basic processes involvethe assessment of student and institutional needs, the development of reasonedgoals to address identified needs, and the implementation of programs,policies, and services to accomplish such goals. The uniqueness of the CollegeStudent Affairs graduate program at Azusa Pacific Universityis that it seeks to accomplish this mission within the context of a Christianworld view.

PROGRAM UNIQUENESS
Azusa Pacific University's CSA program iscompetency based. Our program is designed to develop and strengthen studentcompetence in twelve specified areas of student affairs practice. Graduatesdemonstrate their competence in these areas through a portfolio developmentprocess and capstone colloquium at the conclusion of the program. Our SummerTrack for Working Professionals provides graduate education for fully employedstudent affairs professionals through intensive summer sessions.

NATIONAL STANDARDS
Meets ACPA Professional Preparation Commission Standards: YES
Meets CAS Standards:
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APPLICATION AND ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS

Master's Application • Resume • Letter to the Dean • Application Form • GPA: 3.0 • 3 letters of recommendation Delete “Interview” • Field Placement • Deadline: Rolling Admission

CURRICULUM INFORMATION

Program Required Hours: Master's -  39 credit hours

 

Master's Curriculum Required: Legal and Ethical Issues in College Student Affairs Introduction to College Student Affairs The Process of Adult Development Administration in College Student Affairs Today’s College Students Counseling: The Helping Relationship The Role of Diversity in Student Affairs Practice Designing Learning Experiences and Environments Quantitative Analysis in College Student Affairs Foundations of Higher Education Counseling: Issues and Practice Program Evaluation and Research Methods Capstone Project in College Student Affairs Is a thesis required? No.

Electives: Foundations of Personal Leadership Development Servant Leadership Current Issues in Leadership Organizational Behavior and Development in Higher Education Group Dynamics and Conflict Resolution

STUDENT DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - Students in student affairs or higher education administration programs  (2003-2004):

	Total Number	# of Males	# of Females	# of Whites	# of Persons of Color
Master's	105	35	70	81	24
	% of part-time students	% of full-time students	% of students enrolled in the program who also hold some form of financial assistance (graduate assistantship, fellowship, tuition waiver, scholarship)
Master's	5	95	64

PROGRAM FACULTY - Faculty members with areas of specialization and percentage of time devoted to the program.

Dennis A. Sheridan, Ed.D., Ph.D. -- statistics, research design, student sub-cultures, assessment, program evaluation, program design; 100%
David McIntire, Ed.D. -- administration, counseling, field supervision, international education, leadership; 100%
Carol Lundberg, Ph.D. -- program evaluation, research methods, designing learningexperiences and statistics. 100%
Sharyn Slavin Miller, Ph.D. -- student development theory,counseling, diversity issues in higher education, foundations of higher education; today’scollege students; 100%

Fran Newman, Ed.D., Adjunct faculty -- administration and foundations of higher education
John Hoffman, Ph.D., Adjunct faculty-- diversity issues in highereducation, history of college student affairs, and program evaluation
Pam Christian, Ph..D., Adjunct faculty -- diversity issues in higher education, designing learningexperiences, adult development theory
Grace Kim, Ph.D., Adjunct faculty -- counseling

Last modified 06/02/2005
Information submitted by: Sharon Slavin Miller

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