Job One 2.0: Understanding the Next Generation of Student Affairs Professionals, Edition 2

Peter M. Magolda · Jill Ellen Carnaghi

Apr 2014 · University Press of America

About this ebook

In this second edition of Job One, editors Peter M. Magolda and Jill Ellen Carnaghi place new professionals' stories “center stage.” The book focuses on narratives written by new professionals about their introduction and transitions into Student Affairs work. These stories document the joys and angst felt as new professionals prepare to transition from graduate school to work, search for their first Student Affairs position, assimilate campus norms, formulate a professional identity, satisfy supervisors' expectations, mediate cultural conflicts, and remain true to their personal and professional values. This book is a useful resource inviting new professionals, supervisors, and faculty to think differently about the on-going education and needs of new professionals, while offering a new perspective for optimizing new professionals' experiences. Co-published ACPA – College Student Educators International.

About the author

Peter M. Magolda is a professor in Miami University’s Student Affairs in Higher Education program. He teaches educational anthropology and research seminars, and his scholarship focuses on ethnographic studies of college students and critical issues in qualitative research.

Jill Ellen Carnaghi has been at Washington University in St. Louis since 1997 and currently serves as an Associate Vice Chancellor for Students and Dean of Campus Life. Prior to Washington University, Carnaghi worked in housing and residence life—from a graduate resident advisor at Michigan State to assistant director at the University of California, Davis, to Director of Residential Life at the University of Vermont. Carnaghi has been involved in professional associations, including serving as president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and treasurer of the ACPA Educational Leadership Foundation.