Understanding Faculty and Student Affairs Staff Members' Awareness of and Engagement With the "Other"

• In Event: 14.045 - Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: 14.045-3 - Creating Educational Value and Engagement for International Students, Faculty, and Staff

Abstract

Many have called for faculty and student affairs staff to partner and/or collaborate such that student success is viewed as a shared responsibility. We assert that these postsecondary stakeholder groups are unlikely to partner or collaborate if they do not first, know the other and second, have a willingness to engage with the other in a mutual activity. Using a multi-institutional sample of faculty and student affairs staff, we examine the extent to which there are differences between the two groups awareness of and engagement with programs and services designed to support student success. We then investigate the relationship between these measures and perceptions of an organizational culture in which student success is a shared responsibility.

Authors

• Tricia Seifert, Montana State University

• Jeffrey Burrow, University of Toronto - OISE

• Diliana Peregrina-Kretz, OISE/University of Toronto

• Kathleen Moore, OISE/University of Toronto