Notes, Thoughts, Questions, and Brainstorming from NASPA 19- Monday

***Hey Peeps- This blog is not a an update so much as it is my note taking from a conference I attended. It's for me for work. I will do a blog though on the family fun that happened in LA prior to the conference!*** KS1 - Opening Session & Featured Speaker: Kal Penn
Coordinating Presenter: Stephanie Gordon Vice President for Professional Development NASPA	Sunday, March 10 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM South Hall J - LA Convention Center
Join your NASPA colleagues, friends, and mentors for the 101st opening session of the NASPA Annual Conference. Penny Rue, Jason, Pina, and Kevin Kruger will provide an opening welcome and an overview of the conference experience. Kal Penn, actor and former White House staffer will join us as our opening keynote speaker.

046 - More than a Logo: Funding Student Programs Through Sponsorship
Coordinating Presenter: Martha Tran Strategic Initiatives and Communications Manager University of Washington	Monday, March 11 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM 511 ABC - LA Convention Center
Other Presenters
LeAnne Wiles, Director, University of Washington Julie Berry, Program Manager, University of Washington Keith Frazee, Assistant Director for Orientation Programs, University of Oregon
Companies want to be on college campuses and are willing to pay a lot to do so. At the University of Washington (UW), the presenters discuss how academic and student affairs units collaborated with university advancement in order to secure over $80,000 towards week of welcome programming. Costly student programming can be supported by outside organizations if done so in a responsible and transparent manner. Learn about the challenges of engaging with the local and global community, ethical dilemmas, and ways to build meaningful partnerships that are deeper than a logo placement.

Reasons for sponsorship:
-supplement low budgets
-control access to campus students with a formalized process
-engage local community

Types:
-Marketing
-Gifts
-Research and Development
-Vendor/Supplies

Step 1- Identify an Opportunity
Step 2- Work with key campus partners
Step 3- Identify engagement (logos, tabling, speaking, service) Can bypass dollars and go directly to in-kind
Step 4- Create package and pricing levels
Step 5- Identify companies and start outreach
Step 6- Foster Relationship

Recommendation: Have a statement policy that allows you to easily say no to places. Prohibited items statement. Sustainability statement.

Questions
1. How much of your success is due to the popularity of your athletics program? For a college that doesn't have that, what do you suggest? UW and UofOregon have very different cultures from Evergreen...
2. Any ethics issues /conversations when the values of the sponsor are not in alignment with the values of the students?

fyp.washington.edu/naspa19 for the slides, resources, examples, and contact info...

Evergreen People to Seek:
1. Correan (Advancement)
2. Elizabeth (Athletics)
3. Sharon (Aramark)
4. Aileen (AGG)

Potential Evergreen Community to Seek:
1. Washington Center for Performing Arts (Theatre and performance groups)
2. Smart Energy Today/South Sound Solar (Clean Energy Committee)
3. Intercity Transit (Flaming Eggplant...bus route map of local farms, farm to table places, co-ops, evergreen-alum eateries...)
4. Red Lion (ESCEI and in-kind rooms for families arriving early)

KS2 - Featured Speaker: Amanda Nguyen
Coordinating Presenter: Stephanie Gordon Vice President for Professional Development NASPA	Monday, March 11 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM South Hall K - LA Convention Center
Amanda Nguyen is a civil rights activist and a survivor of sexual assault. Nguyen's goal was to establish a standard of care and to eliminate the emotional burden for sexual assault survivors. The Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights grants each survivor the right to know where his or her rape kit is located, whether or not it has been tested, and the test results of the kit. These pieces of information are crucial to the prosecution of each rape case, as they can help trace the perpetrator or confirm a survivor's testimony. Join Amanda and your colleagues for an inspriational conversation with Amanda Nguyen.

060 - You Do Not Have to Move On to Move Up
Coordinating Presenter: Todd Suddeth Executive Director, Student Life Multicultural Center Ohio State University-Main Campus	Monday, March 11 10:10 AM - 11:00 AM Gold 1 - JW Marriott LA Live
Student affairs is a unique career field concerning the perceived need to be mobile in pursuing professional opportunities. While the benefit of working at multiple institutions can include a larger network of colleagues, exposure to different operational structures and experiences, does this really lead to substantive career and professional development? The presenters will provide tools and resource to answer for yourself the question, "do I have to move on to move up?"

Questions- group fun! I answered "How often do you engage in learning?"

-Young professionals and length of employment (Gallup, 2016)
-What do you need for an ideal work environment?
-What are 3-4 main factors that would force you to move on from your current campus?
-Developing a craftsman mindset to obtain career capital
-Passion mindset

-Perceived External Prestige (PEP) often faculty related, how does the world perceive the campus?
-Perceived Org Support (POS) admin and staff, how does the campus support me?  (Fuller, et al., 2006)

Creativity, Impact, Control- traits that define great work, Kroth & Young, 2014
-Communication of employee and org accomplishments
-Establish programs that incorporate recognized work of employees

Opportunity Cost Formula= Return of Next Best Alternative Not Chosen- Return of the Option Chosen
What is the opportunity cost of staying an additional 1-2 years of staying in your role, versus moving somewhere and starting over. There are certain points when you do have to move on, but do we move on for the sake of moving on?

bwahahahah!!! Crowd question...
Person: Do you have any advice for when you want to stay at your institution, but some of the traditionalists don't want too....
Whole Room: Leave?
whole room fell out laughing....
Answer from presenter: Yeah, we've all been in those places where someone has been in a position for decades and won't retire for whatever reasons. You have to make a choice to either stay and stick it out, carving out other opportunities for yourself, or move on.

117 - If We Build It, They Will Engage: Constructing Diverse and Inclusive Coalitions
Coordinating Presenter: Rosalyn Kempf Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Women's Leadership Mount Saint Mary's University	Monday, March 11 11:15 AM - 12:05 PM Plaza I - JW Marriott LA Live
Other Presenters
Kassie Barroquillo, University of Texas Student Engagement Program Coordinator, The University of Texas at Austin Carah Ong Whaley, Associate Director, James Madison Center for Civic Engagement, James Madison University
Through their experiences at three different institutions, presenters will provide their perspectives on what makes an effective coalition and how to bring people to the table. Helpful resources and tips related to theoretical frameworks, the use of technology, and practical approaches to CLDE work on our campuses will also be shared. Participants will explore what it means to build their own campus coalitions; brainstorm and share coalition-building ideas and strategies; and leave with a toolkit of resources to support this process. Coalition building specifically connected to voting. Civic Engagement specific to voting.  Presentation was a dud...description did not match what was delivered....good info, just not what we need. Bummer. 271 - Better Together: Shared Governance and Student Affairs Coordinating Presenter: George McClellan Associate Professor of Higher Education University of Mississippi Main Campus Monday, March 11 3:40 PM - 4:30 PM 409 A - LA Convention Center Shared governance is integral to the success of higher education, but is commonly misunderstood and not fully realized. Given the ways in which it intersects with our work, student affairs professionals need an understanding of shared governance. What is it? Who is involved, and who ought to be? How can we work with shared governance structures to support the success of our students and institutions? Participants in this session will explore these questions together.

Scale of 1-10, how likely are you to engage in sg at work? 10
Three words that come to mind? Faculty, Staff, Students
On scale of 1-10, how often do you think you are involved in sg? 8

Growing numbers of institutions adding adjunct faculty to the voting member block
Characteristics of Genuine SG
-Climate of trust
-Information sharing
-Meaningful Participation
-Collective decision making
-Protecting divergent views
-Redefining roles

Soft Governance issues where we can be most effective:
-modeling patience and commitment
-promoting procedural justice
-developing and sustaining trust
-encouraging full participation
-getting comfortable with power, persuasion, and politics

"Power is the ability to influence, Persuasion is the process and Politics is when the two interact."
The presenter over promised and under delivered....

KS3 - Featured Speaker: Janet Napolitano Coordinating Presenter: Stephanie Gordon Vice President for Professional Development NASPA Tuesday, March 12 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM South Hall K - LA Convention Center Janet Napolitano is the current president of the University of California and has been an advocate for student success throughout her time at the institution. From her fight to connect DACA students to services in California to her work with first-generation students, President Napolitano is in the center of the student success movement for the state of California. Join President Napolitano for a conversation with NASPA on Tuesday morning. 369 - The Constant Process of Becoming: Our Professional Duty to Lifelong Learning
Coordinating Presenter: Laura Osteen Director, Center for Leadership and Social Change Florida State University	Tuesday, March 12 10:10 AM - 11:00 AM 409 B - LA Convention Center
What is our ethical, moral, professional duty to engage in lifelong learning? While we often imagine graduate courses and professional conferences as central to our professional development, NASPA's Professional Standards Division invites us into a conversation on our responsibility to engage in continuous knowledge acquisition (education), skill building (training), and reflective integration (development). Beyond sporadic moments in time, how might we reimagine professional development as an internal and external commitment to becoming a contextually relevant, thoughtful practitioner? That pen trick was amazing. 416 - The Future Is Female: Navigating Student Affairs as A Mid-level or Entry-level Woman Professional of Color Coordinating Presenter: Khalilah Doss Vice President of Student Life and Dean of Students McPherson College Tuesday, March 12 11:15 AM - 12:05 PM 408 B - LA Convention Center Other Presenters Gabrielle Williams, Assistant Director, McPherson College Tashay Dennie, Assistant Director, University of Kansas Asia Smith, Assistant Director, Stephen F. Austin State University Saran Donahoo, Chair, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Holly Rockingham, FYE and Residence Life Coordinator, Alderson Broaddus University Nikita Haynie, Assistant Director, University of Kansas There has been an increase in the number of practitioners joining the field who identify as women of color. Navigating a predominantly white, male, cisgender space can be daunting. Unfortunately, there are limited resources available to assist young women professionals of color along this journey. Presenters will discuss examples of these issues and give suggestions on how to successfully navigate these spaces as members of this demographic. 679 - Disrupting the Discourse of Motherhood and Leadership: Women with Children in Senior-Level Higher Education Administration Coordinating Presenter: Sunny Lee Associate Dean of Students University of California-Berkeley Wednesday, March 13 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM 404 A - LA Convention Center The presenter will share key findings from her qualitative dissertation study on the lived experiences of 17 women in senior leadership roles in higher education who are parenting school-aged children. Grounded in a feminist, poststructuralist framework, the presenter will share how these mother-administrators disrupt the dominant discourses of motherhood and leadership to create counter narratives of their lives. "You're young to be a president"- person judging "I'm the same age as Barack Obama"- mother being judged Weedon, 1997- every choice we make signified compliance or resistance to the dominant ideas of womanhood and feminism and discourses. Technology and flexibility- can make things harder for boundaries, but can also help with telecommuting, working remotely, and offering flexibility in schedules. UC System does not have paid parental leave for staff, grad students and faculty do, staff need to use personal vacation time. The Cal system does have paid leave. Know all the HR policies around leave (disability, sick, activities, etc). KS4 - Closing Session & Featured Speaker: Shaun Harper Coordinating Presenter: Stephanie Gordon Vice President for Professional Development NASPA Wednesday, March 13 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM South Hall K - LA Convention Center Join your colleagues for an inspirational closing session including Shaun Harper, the 2019 and 2020 conference leadership committees, and the official announcement of our 2020 NASPA Annual Conference.