Listen Very Loud : Paying Attention in the Student Affairs Profession

by Mitchell, Randy L.

• ISBN13: 9781891859359
• ISBN10: 1891859358
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Atwood Pub

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
About This Book	xvii
How to Listen to This Book	xxi
Listen Very Loud	1	(4)
Paying attention to the lessons of our professional life
Lessons from the Big Guy	5	(10)
Unexpected wisdom from unrecognized mentors
I'm Still Alive	15	(4)
The people, places, and purposes that give us meaning
The Hand of Grace	19	(6)
Giving and receiving grace in professional practice
On Being Binked	25	(4)
Being touched and changed by the random energy of students and staff
Find Your Joy	29	(6)
Discovering and creating joy in and around our work lives
Me and My Guitar	35	(4)
Fine-tuning the instruments we use
Responsibility and Freedom: Keys to Learning	39	(10)
Helping students exercise their newfound freedom with responsibility
CTS Period	49	(4)
Making sense by being sensible and sensitive
Shooting for the Stars	53	(10)
Helping students define success through knowledge, skills, and competencies
A Learning Community in the Real World	63	(6)
Making the entire campus a learning community
Motivation Revisited (or, Mr. Peabody's ``Wayback Time Machine'')	69	(10)
Creating the conditions to foster student motivation
Five Easy Questions	79	(4)
Breaking down educational barriers on campus
When Someone Gives You Grief	83	(6)
Responding appropriately and authentically to loss and grief
The Gift of GAB, Filling the GAP, and the GAG Rule	89	(6)
Responding appropriately to stress
Going as You've Learned or Learning as You Go	95	(6)
Recognizing how we learn, what we've learned, and what to do with what we've learned
Summer Hiatus	101	(4)
Adjusting to the seasonal needs of our students
Boxes and Stuff	105	(6)
``Stuff'' management
B.A.L.A.N.C.E.	111	(8)
Balancing personal and professional expectations and obligations
Deferred Living	119	(4)
Seizing the day and investing in the present
Re-engagement	123	(4)
Employing a lifetime of experience
Trains of Thought	127	(6)
Appreciating the journey
Collegiate Kudzu	133	(6)
Good ideas that get out of control-and how to live with them
Settling Up	139	(6)
Reconciling differences and holding each other accountable
The Perception of Stress	145	(4)
Differentiating perceptions from reality-and responding accordingly
Good News	149	(4)
No news isn't good news if the good news doesn't get reported
Campus Soul Ecology	153	(4)
Paying attention to the souls of our campuses
The Capacity To Care	157	(4)
Caring about, rather than taking care of, the people in our work
The Lexicon of Little Things	161	(8)
A dictionary of making a difference
Dear Darci	169	(4)
Why I do what I do
Table of ``Context'': Reflection Questions	173	(8)
Resources	181	(2)
About the Author	183