The Curricular Approach to Student Affairs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wflH4PSTxIs Dr. Heather Shea discusses the new book The Curricular Approach to Student Affairs with co-authors Drs. Kathleen Kerr, Keith Edwards, James Tweedy, Hilary Lichterman, and Amanda Knerr. This conversation explores the rationale behind the curricular approach, what it is , and how it can serve student affairs leaders and ultimately students as we navigate these unprecedented times. Guests Kathleen G. Kerr serves as the associate vice president for Student Life at the University of Delaware (UD). Kerr provides leadership to enhance the operations, programs, and services for Residence Life and Housing (RLH), the Office of Orientation and Transition Programs, the university student centers, fraternity and sorority leadership and learning, student wellness and health promotion, the Center for Counseling and Student Development, and Student Health Services in a manner that connects the strengths and assets of these units to enhance the campus experience for all students. Keith E. Edwards helps individuals, organizations, and communities to realize their fullest potential as a speaker, consultant, and coach. He has spoken and consulted at more than 200 colleges and universities; presented more than 200 programs at national conferences; and written more than 20 articles or book chapters on sexual violence prevention, men’s identity, curricular approaches, and social justice education. He has facilitated or co-facilitated two-day workshops on designing and implementing a curricular approach with more than 60 different campuses. Amanda R. Knerr serves as the executive director of residential life and housing at Indiana State University. She cochaired the ACPA RCI in 2015 and 2016. Knerr served as faculty for the institute from 2010 to 2019. She has consulted with a variety of campuses, developing their curricular approach. Hilary L. Lichterman serves as the associate director of residence life at the University of South Carolina. Her dissertation, “Organizational Perspective on Implementing the Residential Curriculum Approach: An Ethnographic Case Study,” was the first published research on the curricular approach in student affairs and specifically in housing and residence life. Additionally,Lichterman and J.L. Bloom (2019) authored the article “The Curricular Approach to Residential Education: Lessons for Student Affairs Practice.” James Tweedy is the director of Residence Life and Housing at UD and an adjunct professor within the higher education policy and student affairs program at West Chester University Pennsylvania and focuses his professional energies on exploring the connections between residence life staff inputs into the student experience and the resulting student learning and development gains. Tweedy is the coauthor of “Beyond Seat Time” and “Satisfaction and Shifting to Curricular Approaches to Learning Beyond the Classroom,” published in About Campus. Hosted by Heather D. Shea, Ph.D. (she, her, hers) currently works as the director of Women*s Student Services at Michigan State University and affiliate faculty in the Student Affairs Administration MA program at MSU. Her career in student affairs spans over two decades and five different campuses and involves experiences in many different functional areas including residence life, multicultural affairs, women, gender, and LGBTQA programs, student activities, leadership development, and commuter/non-traditional student services—she identifies as a student affairs generalist. Heather is committed to praxis, contributing to scholarship, and preparing the next generation of educational leaders. She regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate-level classes and each summer she leads a 6-credit undergraduate education abroad program in Europe for students in teacher education.