Creating Successful Partnerships Between Academic and Student Affairs

by John H. Schuh; Elizabeth J. Whitt

• ISBN13: 9780787948696
• ISBN10: 0787948691
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Although partnerships between academic affairs and student affairs are widely recognized as important for student learning and institutional effectiveness, the higher education community tends to discuss and applaud such collaborations without actually implementing them. This issue of New Directions for Student Services presents case studies of academic and student affairs partnerships that have been successfully put into practice at a variety of institutions, in areas such as service learning, the core curriculum, and residential learning communities. The authors offer academic and student affairs professionals practical strategies for forming collaborations that enhance learning and promote student success. The concluding chapter presents a set of guiding principles to use in assessing the effectiveness of partnerships and the climate for collaboration at individual institutions.This is the 87th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Student Services. For more information on the series, please see the New Directions for Student Services page.

Author Biography

JOHN H. SCHUH is professor of higher education at Iowa State University. ELIZABETH J. WHITT is associate professor in student development in postsecondary education at the University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

Editors' Notes	1	(4)
John H. Schuh
Elizabeth J. Whitt
Partnerships: An Imperative for Enhancing Student Learning and Institutional Effectiveness	5	(14)
Charles C. Schroeder
Partnerships for Service Learning	19	(18)
Barbara Jacoby
Freshman Interest Groups: Partnerships for Promoting Student Success	37	(14)
Charles C. Schroeder
Frankie D. Minor
Theodore A. Tarkow
Partnerships to Connect In-and Out-of-Class Experiences	51	(12)
Sarah B. Westfall
The Ursuline Studies Program: A Collaborative Core Curriculum	63	(12)
Martin F. Larrey
Sandra M. Estanek
Merging with Academic Affaris: A Promotion or Demotion for Student Affaris?	75	(10)
Jerry Price
Guiding Principles for Evaluating Student and Academic Affaris Partnerships	85	(8)
John H. Schuh
Index	93