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The annual conference for Naspa -- Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education runs March 8-12 in Boston. View the schedule.

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Be Everywhere Now
Today's generation of students is a singular one in its spectacular hunger for life and more life. But some stereotypes about the millennial generation may not hold up.

No Longer 'Nontraditional'
Colleges are reaching out to adult students, especially those who have some credits but no degree.

Help for Troubled Students
Public colleges often don't have enough resources for mental-health services, even as expectations rise for them to identify and help troubled students.

Past Naspa Coverage

Creating a 'Culture of Preparedness' (2008)
Colleges must empower their students to help prevent violent incidents on campuses and prepare them to respond during emergencies, experts say.

Do Guns Belong on Campus? (2008)
The solution to shooting incidents at colleges and universities is not more guns, public-safety experts argue.

New Demands on Student Affairs (2007)
The needs of an increasingly diverse student population are rapidly expanding the roles and responsibilities of student-affairs offices.

Millennials, Parents, and Liability (2006)
Modern students are skilled multitaskers who dream big, thrive on stress, and call their parents constantly.

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December 29, 2007

An MLA Mini-Lexicon

Heard here and there, in alphabetical order:

Affect (possibly the new Next Big Thing)
De-skilling (as in “the de-skilling of students,” who arrive at college not knowing how to do certain useful things like read and write)
Epiphenomena (used to refer to the activities surrounding the core events of the MLA)
Ethics (are we seeing an ethical turn in literary studies?)
Framing
Hyperliteracy
Literary geospaces
Memory mapping
Post-humanist
Problem clusters (an alternative to disciplines, proposed by N. Katherine Hayles of UCLA)
Problematizing (something humanists do well)
Practice-based research (big in Europe, getting bigger here)

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