The Division of Student Life meets monthly to share updates and any information from the vice president and his executive leadership team. As a benefit to all Student Life staff and to further support the priority of investing in staff during these divisional meetings, breakout sessions are offered to all staff. The learning outcomes of these breakout sessions are as follows:
- Provide general professional development for all staff on a consistent basis
- Aim to transfer knowledge of different hot topics, recommended trainings, or new initiatives to SL staff
- Increase SL staff knowledge about the work being done by fellow staff members in the division on a range of topics
- Enhance visibility and access of SL executive leadership team members to divisional staff
Upcoming Breakouts
The information for upcoming breakout sessions will be displayed here. Since there are no more divisional meetings for the 2023-2024 academic year, this section will not be updated until closer to the 2024-2025 academic year. Check back in July or August to find information on the first breakout sessions for fall 2024.
Themes
These breakout sessions will support the following themes outlined below and will rotate each month.
Social Justice Series
The Social Justice Series aims to integrate knowledge of social justice, inclusion, oppression, privilege and power into the practice of Student Life professionals. These topics will help identify systems of socialization that influence one’s multiple identities and sociopolitical perspectives and how they impact one’s lived experiences. Additionally, these sessions aim to help staff understand how they are affected by and participate in maintaining systems of oppression, privilege and power and challenge SL staff to engage in critical reflection to identify their own prejudices and biases.
Staff Health and Wellbeing
Based on feedback from staff in Spring 2022, Student Life will continue to show a commitment to the health and wellbeing of our staff. Partnering with many different campus and local entities, these sessions will highlight different ways to prioritize holistic health and wellness in your routine. This series is meant to support you as you support our students. These topics will be broad in focus and will be applicable to any divisional staff members.
Share the Wealth (of Knowledge)
For any staff member that has been selected to present or keynote at a UA (non-SL), local, state, regional, national or international conference, this series will allow an opportunity to share that knowledge. Any presentations from previous years are welcome. The goal of this is multifaceted: to enhance peer knowledge of the accomplishments of our staff, to provide cross-training/knowledge sharing across the division, to enhance collaboration across departments and to allow staff of all levels to present in front of the division.
If you are interested in hosting one of these breakout sessions, please complete the Share the Wealth Presentation submission form.
Leadership and Growth
The Business Analytics and Process Improvement Team at UA Supports units by helping to identify inefficient or outdated processes. These could be university-wide, academic or individual department processes. The goal is to streamline processes, raise employee morale, improve productivity, increase stakeholder satisfaction and align daily activities to help UA achieve its mission. The goal of this SL series is to enhance our staff’s understanding of Agility, Continuous Improvement and Process Improvement to be more effective leaders.
Supporting Students
These sessions will offer different opportunities to better equip our staff to serve our diverse student body and a variety of their needs. We will feature SL departments but also create space for external experts to present to our division. We will focus our conversations on ways to enhance our divisional knowledge of serving the whole student body among such a diverse campus community.
Highlighted Trainings
These divisional breakout sessions will focus on a different topic each month. SL will partner with HR Learning and Development to bring topics of interest to our in-person SL meetings.
