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Abstract Student affairs, as an integral part of universities, has taken on a key position in contributing to social justice as one of the central imperatives of higher education in South Africa. This article sketches the development of this role and outlines some important tasks for contemporary student affairs. Three conceptual models within the social justice framework are utilized: participatory parity, universal design for learning, and student engagement. These models are uniquely...
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This study is an investigation into the scope, role, and function of student development and support (SDS) within higher education in South Africa. The underpinnings and frameworks of SDS were explored during the research, as well as its integration into the institution and into organisational structures, the relationship between SDS and the policies of the Department of Higher Education and Training, and the influences from the national and international context of SDS. Policies emerging...
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Authors: Cloete, N., Maassen, P., & Bailey, T. (Eds.) Title: Knowledge Production and Contradictory Functions in African Higher Education (2015) Cape Town: African Minds
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The book, Reflections of South African Student Leaders, 1994 to 2017, edited by Thierry Luescher, Denyse Webbstock and Ntokozo Bhengu, presents an original perspective on the period before and during the university student protests of 2015 and 2016, not only as it is made up of student leaders' voices, but also in that it adopts a 'bottom up' approach where students themselves contextualise their own experiences. A lot has been written about the university managements' experience of this...
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This book has been one of my favourites since it was published in 2017, and I have recently taken it out of the shelf again when I was reminded by Prof. George Kuh as keynote speaker during the Stellenbosch University Experiential Education Conference that indeed we should engage our students at every turn in their academic career at university. George Kuh has inspired a generation of Student Affairs practitioners with what now seems intuitive, common sense and obvious: engaged students do better.
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Student engagement is one avenue to explore how the experiences within and beyond the classroom impact student persistence behaviours. This article contributes to the sparse research in South Africa on the correlates of student engagement with academic performance at a Historically Disadvantaged University. The results suggest that engagement practices at this university are different across race and gender and that given the South African history we are able to generalise onto the South...
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This study describes the findings of a pilot study of an online support service via mobile technology using chat facilities at a Higher Education Institution in South Africa. The online support service, accessible via cell phone chat and computer chat facility, augmented a face-to-face counseling service in a Student Affairs Department at a medium size university. The participants were 729 first year students who were part of a voluntary self-select peer support program, (34% male, 66%...
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Change in higher education across the globe is taking place at an unprecedented pace. Various groups, especially women, are impacted differently by these changes. Women remain underrepresented in leadership at universities across the globe, and South African higher education is no different. For women to take up senior leadership roles more potently in universities, particularly in the Global South, it is essential that they not only cope with and compete in the patriarchal systems that...
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* Dr Lisa Bardill Moscaritolo is General Secretary for the International Association of Student Affairs and Services (IASAS) and Associate Vice-President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at Pace University, Pleasantville Campus, New York, USA. ** Dr Birgit Schreiber is IASAS Chair for the Africa Region and Director: Centre for Student Support Services at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. Email: bschreiber@uwc.ac.za. Close to a hundred selected international...
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Dr Tom Ellet’s reading list Boyer, E. (1987). College: The undergraduate experience in America. New York: Harper & Row. Kramer, G. & Associates. (2007). Fostering student success in the campus community. San Francisco: JosseyBass. Kuh, G. (2009). Understanding campus environments. In McClellan, G.S., Stringer, J. & Associates (Eds.), The handbook of student affairs administration. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Kuh, G.D., Schuh, J.H., Whitt, E.J., Andreas, R.E., Lyons, J.W., Strange, C.C.,...
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Two themes define this issue of the Journal of Student Affairs in Africa: student well-being, and the provision of quality Student Affairs services. The themes of student well-being in general, and mental health in particular, have become prominent in higher education in recent years, and Student Affairs is implicated in the solutions. In this issue, a more systemic approach – with less hyperbolic and reductionist notions – is put forward to illuminate not only the incidences, but also the...
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The Covid‑19 pandemic has highlighted the challenges that present obstacles to equitable learning and development in higher education in various parts of the world. African higher education and Student Affairs and Services (SAS) are faced with a set of challenges that are in part related to the resources within the institutions and in part due the sociocultural context into which the institutions are embedded. It is with this background that this study explores the impact of Covid‑19 on SAS...