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Re: Student Affairs and Campus Crises- A View from New Orleans

AshleighBrock — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:29:22 -0000

Hi Cindy- thank you for your comment. I was actually in my second week of class as a first year on September 11. I remember I was out running in Richmond that morning, and the city was empty, silent... it was so eerie. When I returned to my residence hall, I found my roommate crying and I watched the second tower fall on tv as I stood in the doorway.

It was my RA who came to check on us, the dean of students who emailed to let us know classes were cancelled, the student affairs division who brought in additional counselors to make sure we were all coping.

I think you bring up an interesting point about the disconnect between the importance of our roles and how we "fit" with the rest of campus. Similarly to your colleague, I have been confused as a graduate student to hear accomplished and established student affairs professionals talk about how faculty don't know their names or how their work is not valued. And I wonder how much of this is really the campus not valuing student affairs, or SA professionals not valuing themselves. But, I think that's a blog post for another day! :-)

Re: Back to school...online style!

AshleighBrock — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:32:05 -0000

Cindy- Thanks for this post! I took my first online class in grad school last semester, and went in to it feeling anxious about whether I would get the "true classroom experience." I find that feelings about online courses are often polarized; I don't know many people who fall somewhere in the middle of enjoying and despising them. Your statement about good teachers being good in either setting I find to be true. Further, online classes can be much more difficult than in-person ones, especially in student affairs where time is a hot commodity even after hours.

Thanks for your thoughts, and for spreading positive opinions about online options.

Re: Five Digital Grad School Tools for Writing I Can’t Live Without

AshleighBrock — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:40:52 -0000

Excellent post. The way you summarize and simplify these tools to make them pertinent to writers of all kinds is definitely helpful.

Re: Cooking Up Some Awesome with ifttt

AshleighBrock — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:57:43 -0000

While I haven't used ifttt for my student affairs work yet, my husband and I recently used it to collect photos friends took during our wedding weekend. We ended up with more than 200 photos, taken with instagram by friends and family, then automatically uploaded to our facebook page album (You can read about it here: http://tinyurl.com/7dkalhm). I see implications for events like orientation and graduation where a similar recipe would allow user-generated photography and content to provide a visual livestream of events.

Re: 99 Days Of Freedom

AshleighBrock — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:37:26 -0000

I had my most productive day in months yesterday, my first day off FB. I also connected with several friends and family members on the phone, so I'm feeling pretty good!

Re: How to Fix Mac Office 2011 Crashing in Yosemite [UPDATED X3]

AshleighBrock — Tue, 26 May 2015 19:17:18 -0000

My office upgraded me to a new MacBook Pro a few weeks ago, and ever since, basically any simple function (like... Copy) would crash Excel. And today, whenever I hovered over "open recent" in either Excel or Word, everything froze. I restarted dozens of times today. I found your post, and deleted any office-related plist from my library. I've tried a few times to freeze Excel using the common commands that were shutting things down... and nothing has happened! This fix on the surface seems to have worked for me. I'll let you know if I revert to the old problems as I dig into some work. Thank you!

Re: Stop Counting, Start Assessing #SACareer

AshleighBrock — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:29:16 -0000

Thanks for reading, Matthew! Outcomes are really important- if you don't have any goals for your program or event, it's nearly impossible to know you've succeeded. Numbers have a place, of course. We track advising appointments, logins to our system, event attendance, etc., and analysis of those macro-level datasets help us determine who we're "missing" and think critically about how we market and reach out to people. Always glad to hear others are doing the same!