Online & Engaged: Innovative Student Affairs Practices for Online Learner Success

by Stephanie Smith Budhai, Susan R. Komives (Foreword)

Online & Engaged shares best practices, case studies, examples, and strategies for providing authentic student development support for online learners through their college experience. With chapters by student affairs and higher education professionals across a variety of functional areas, this edited collection covers a full range of concepts, student development theory, and programs and services, mental health and well-being, career counseling, student engagement, multicultural affairs, academic advising, new student orientation, global learning, student affairs assessment, and Title IX programming.

Research informed but practical, the book is organized in three sections. The first section focuses on preparing for the ever-changing higher education landscape and situating student affairs in the 21st century. The second section explores the paradigm shift needed to bring traditional student affairs work to the online environment. The third and final section discusses leveraging technology to advance the work of student affairs for online learners. Reflection questions are provided in each chapter to help readers think more about their current role and how they can use the information in this book to move forward in supporting online learners.

Throughout this accessible volume are tactics student affairs and higher education professionals can immediately use in their daily practice to support online learners. The authors share their own experiences and offer tips for getting started, technology and innovative tools, cutting-edge practices, websites and mobile apps to assist in delivering programs and services for online learners, as well as potential challenges that may arise with practical solutions.

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Published March 15, 2020

About the author

Stephanie Smith Budhai, Ph.D. is an associate clinical professor at Drexel University and a certified K-12 teacher. She has spent the past decade as a teacher educator building culturally responsive and anti-racist curriculum. She is on the board of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education.