Creating Sustainable Careers in Student Affairs

Margaret W. Sallee is Associate Professor and Higher Education Program Coordinator in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on two broad areas: faculty work and the graduate student experience. She uses a critical lens to examine the intersection of individual experiences and organizational culture to interrogate the ways in which gender and other social identities operate on college campuses. She has spent much of the past decade focusing on work/life balance and the ways in which institutional norms and culture shape parents’ experiences on and off-campus. She also is deeply interested in how gender affects individuals’ experiences and is particularly interested in the role that gender and masculinities play in men’s lives.

Foreword—Kristen A. Renn Acknowledgments Introduction. Problematizing the Ideal Worker in Student Affairs—Margaret W. Sallee Part One. The Structure of Student Affairs Work 1. How the Structure and Demands of Student Affairs Reflect Ideal Worker Norms and Influence Work-Life Integration—Laura Isdell and Lisa Wolf-Wendel 2. “That’s the Job”. Agency and Control in Greek Life, Student Activities, and Campus Recreation—Benjamin B. Stubbs 3. Work-Life Integration in Student Affairs. A Closer Look at Housing and Residence Life—Amy S. Hirschy and Shannon D. Staten 4. The Influence of Institutional Type and Socialization Processes on Ideal Worker Norms of Student Affairs Professionals—C. Casey Ozaki and Anne M. Hornak 5. Problematizing Socialization in Student Affairs Graduate Training—Rosemary J. Perez Part Two. The Toll of Student Affairs Work 6. Whose Ideal Worker? Student Affairs and Self-Care in the Neoliberal Academy—Pamela Graglia, Karla Pérez-Vélez, and D-L Stewart 7. Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in Student Affairs—Moly A. Mistretta and Alison L. DuBois 8. Emotional Labor and Well-Being—R. Jason Lynch and Kerry L. B. Klima Part Three. How Various Identity Groups Navigate Student Affairs Work 9. Disclosure, Inclusion, and Consequences for LGBTQ Student Affairs Professionals—Carrie A. Kortegast 10. (En)Counterspaces. An Analysis of Working Conditions for Student Affairs. Professionals of Color in an Un-Ideal World—Ginny Jones Boss and Nicole Bravo 11. The Classed Construct of Student Affairs Work—Sonja Ardoin 12. Interrogating the “Ideal” New Professional in Student Affairs—Melanie Lee and Megan Karbley 13. Fathers in Student Affairs. Navigating a Gendered Organization—Margaret W. Sallee, Alyssa Stefanese Yates, and Michael Venturiello 14. Work-Life Integration. Women Administrators in Student Affairs and Higher Education Managing Work and Family—Sarah Marshall Conclusion. Reimagining Student Affairs—Margaret W. Sallee About the Contributors Index