About Campus
is dedicated to the idea that student learning is the responsibility of everyone on campus. Six times a year,
About Campus
offers an exciting and eclectic mix of articles and features b all designed to illuminate the critical issues faced by both student affairs and academic affairs staff as they work on the shared goal that brought them together in the first place: to help students learn.
Feature Articles
Leading thinkers and researchers, practitioners on the front lines, and leaders in higher education explore far-reaching and critical topics, analyze new research, and detail implications for practice
In Practice
Practitioners at campuses across the country report on the innovative practices and programs that are making a difference in students' learning. Upcoming reports will profile the use of a multi-media CD in a first-year reading program, a successful model for a cultural center, and the use of movies to promote learning and development in the classroom.
Campus Commons
Here you find candid first-person portraits and stories that model how educators work with students in various contexts to promote learning. These stories shed light on the special issues and challenges faced by the students, faculty, and staff who live and work on our campuses. In upcoming issues authors reflect on the perils of perfectionism, learning about diversity, the effect of invisible disabilities, and more.
Media Montage
This department offers reviews of multimedia resources that educators can use in college and university settings to enhance student learning.
Assessment Matters
Assessment Matters articles examine one of the most essential and most challenging issues involved in successful educational practice: how to determine whether students are learning what we as educators want them to learn. State-of-the-art assessment practices in the curriculum and cocurriculum are explored in upcoming issues.
Bottom Line
These strong persuasive essays bring readersb attention to a particular issue or challenge facing higher education.