#sapros

[winnwriter]

Happiest of birthday to @jlc_312 !! I hope you are there glowing like only you know how! 🙏🏼 Secondary shoutout to the rest of the squad, we out here being blessings and #SAPros 💖✨

[jeffreynyc]

Looking forward to presenting on “Innovative Strategies in Supporting Grad Students” next week at #NASPA18 for #SAPros serving graduate students with my colleagues Justin Alger & Madiha Akhtar!

[nerdswillruletheworld]

We out here getting degrees and making meaning with your students. #SelfAuthored? more like #SelfieAuthored. #SAPros (at University of Michigan School of Education)

[swintonr2]

Ticket to ride with some cool #SApros at the #GLACUHO #wintermeeting. No big. #Indiana #workvacay #ResidenceLife (at YMCA Camp Tecumseh)

[raecheltakeson290]

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My Christmas bobble head was waiting for me when I got to work this morning! I love working in the College of Education!!! #UofSC #SAPros

[sefarmer91-blog]

Moderation Is Key: Moderating Debates for Student Org Elections

The US Presidential Election isn’t the only election that haunts us student affairs professionals - Student Org Elections can be just as bad sometimes. That’s why Natalie and I present to you this week’s #StudentAffairsSideHustle Election Edition. 

We recommend serving as a moderator for debates during student org elections. It allows you to ask the questions and drive campus dialogue to the real issues, i.e. North Campus. You can call the candidates out when they fail to answer the question. Channel your inner Elaine Quijano. (Shoutout to our girl for keeping them on track!)

We get the perks of ensuring that students participate in civil discourse and can call them out for when they become just shady. This will probably will be even more needed after the election as we deal with the aftermath from our more political student orgs. 

The side hustle comes into play because you can charge for your services. Charge the student orgs by the hour and make crazy demands - a green room stocked with your favorite food for dinner if you’re staying late (Order the steak and eat cake)! Also, if elections are happening in the spring then FLSA will be in effect, which means you could potentially double dip for this one (charge the student org and then get paid for overtime if it falls within your job duties). 

Happy Side Hustling, 

Natalie and Shane

[nlmischief]

Best Friend's Birthday

I think my Best Friend had one of the best ways to celebrate a birthday. First up, out to dinner at 5pm. FIVE PM. It was a wonderful time to get dinner. You're hungry, but not hangry from waiting. There's time to enjoy drinks (alc&non) and apps. Food comes, delicious. Finally dessert - and that dessert, wow. Cold, peanut butter, chocolate oreo crumb ice cream confectionary masterpiece. Next all the people who were at her birthday were other SA/HE peeps so the conversation was flowing, welcoming, and all good fun. Dinner ends and what to do next? WHY TO THE BARNES & NOBLES WE GO! Just across the street! We proceed to browse both together and separately. "Have you read --?" "WAIT NO YOU HAVE TO READ THIS--" "Well I didn't like this one as much but still a great series--" these are convos that make my soul happy. And as I had a B&N membership I let the group use my card -- I'M GETTING ALL THE POINTS!! I did cause a little mayhem when, just as we are all making our way to the front to check out, we are passing a table and I say "Wait, it's a mystery box? HEY EVERYONE" and we spend the next fifteen minutes determining which box is the heaviest and that's the one that one friend will buy. He scored with that box (Funko, Pop, and other goodies enclosed in it!) That's a best birthday party - BOOKS. IT ENDED WITH BOOKS.

[tbarnes41]

I call this -- The Super Stars! I had such an amazing time working with this fabulous group of #SAPros to program @naspa2 2016 Region Conference. Can't wait for 2017. See you in Pittsburgh! #conferencing #NASPA2 #funtimes (at John Jay College of Criminal Justice)