Decision Making

For this assignment, explore the journal literature, and write a paper in which you examine how others have achieved cross-campus coalitions or partnerships between academic faculty and/or administration and student development professionals. Incorporate at least three examples of peer-reviewed literature, and incorporate at least one practical applied example into your paper along with the research-based articles.

Discover how others have engaged in successful partnerships between academic units and student affairs units in at least two of the following areas:

• The formation of partnerships with faculty in support of what are now called “learning – living environments.”
• The establishment of conversations with teaching faculty that resulted in model community “service learning” projects consistent with the mission of the college or university.
• Student development alliances and programmatic development with teaching faculty that address problems related to poor class attendance, personal or behavioral problems which impair academic performance, and the tendency to view “the classroom as the classroom” and everything outside of class as “everything else.”
• Create a responsive program development strategy based on what others have done.
• What did people learn from these success stories? What guiding principles have researchers come to believe are critical if the alleged “chasm” between academics and student life is to be bridged?

Length: 5 pages, not including title and reference pages

References: Include a minimum of five scholarly resources not older than 6 years old.