Overall, whats it like working with college students?
Students are terrific. Every day is unique. Watching students come to campus for the first time, seeing the kind of potential that exists within them, and the kind of people that they can become is exciting. Our challenge, as student affairs professionals, is to figure out how to provide opportunities to harness all of that energy in a positive way. What do you find most rewarding about your job? As a career, you realize you’ll never get rich doing this, in the monetary sense. But you get rich in so many other ways. The connections I’ve made and the interactions I’ve had are incredibly valuable. I’ve had a handful of students with whom I’ve worked that have chosen the student affairs field as a career. You realize that you can have a positive impact on someone’s life and that keeps you going. As a whole, today’s college students seem to face a lot of challenges that just didn’t exist in the past. What are some of these challenges, and the resultant challenges for the student affairs fo
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