Heather J. Strine-Patterson, Ph.D.

A culture of assessment is a culture of learning. #WisdomWednesday #highered #SAPro

Morning #ACPA #SAAI23 faculty and participants! I am excited to start today alongside other Administrative Track faculty, @CijiAnn, Kristyn Muller, and @TheRealSuperMom. This morning, I get to discuss how assessment is a leadership process (lnkd.in/gF78uQNE). #SAassess

Looking for a free, virtual professional development opportunity? Register for @appstate Analytics Day on June 2, which will focus on using @tableau for analytics in #highered. analytics.appstate.edu/analyticsday #saassess #assessment

Y'all, I have been very non-COVID sick for a couple of weeks now. I started some antibiotics on Friday and I'm finally feeling much better today. Thanks for your patience as I catch up on work at App State, JSAI-related work, and some housework.

@jennieflynn227 I had so much fun catching up with you and talking assessment! You are primed for leading this work in whatever role you have, my friend!

Kathy Guthrie and I are pleased to announce that NDSL 171- Advancing Racial Equity in Leadership Education: Centering Marginalized Institutional Contexts has been released [editors Rich Whitney and Jasmine D. Collins]. Check it at your institution’s Wiley online subscription.

@LucasSchalewski @Assessment_Inst @DrCalebJKeith @CijiAnn @WeldyEric @JoeBooksLevy Thanks for your engagement in the leadership process for student affairs assessment too, Lucas! This work is so meaningful and has the double-bonus of having wonderful colleagues across the country doing it.

Just completed the "Student Affairs and Co-Curricular Programs and Services" keynote panel at the @Assessment_Inst with @DrCalebJKeith, @CijiAnn, @WeldyEric, and @JoeBooksLevy. That was fun - let's do it again sometime! #SAassess #SAassessment

Morale for #SApro would likely get better if we address "Higher Ed’s Invisible Understaffing Epidemic" insidehighered.com/blogs/learning…

And, if #facebook didn't intend to engage in quality improvement efforts, why did they do the research? Were they hoping to find positive results to market that they weren't doing harm? If the results were positive - do that. But, when you know better, you need to do better.

I am astounded by the research Facebook has done without a focus or intention to engage in quality improvement improvement efforts. This is akin to sending a survey and doing nothing with the results. It's unethical. #SApro #SAassess #assessment youtu.be/_Lx5VmAdZSI

Today's the last day to register for the Assessment Institute! Virtual and free. #SAassess #SApro #SAchat

We're making significant progress on selecting a national diversity campus climate survey for the '22-'23 academic year so that we can benchmark with peer institutions! If you're an #SAassess #SApro a mid-size regional institution (~20,000), let me know if you want to join us!

Dean Judy Haas is my inspirational leader today. For those of you that have worked with her @appstate, I'm sure that's no surprise.🖤💛#AppStateSA

I ended my week with @albioncollege Student Development Leadership to talk about #SAassess and the contributions of #SApro to students' learning through cocurricular experiences. It was a great way to refocus on purpose before vacation! Thanks for the invitation, Leroy!

@MissKellie_1 No doubt!!!

We've got some more great positions at @appstate, including our Program Director for @AHEPP1, Coordinator of #campusactivities Student Programming, and Assistant Director for #communityengagement. Visit tinyurl.com/AppStateDSAjobs #SAsearch #SAchat

Thursday, June 3 is Analytics Day @appstate, a mini-conference that showcases Tableau dashboards for data visualization. Any #SApro #SAassess #SAassessment want to get geeky and join me? Registration is free tiny.one/AnalyticsDay.

Rates for the Student Affairs Assessment Institute will increase THIS FRIDAY! Register before April 30th to attend for the lowest cost. #saai21 #sachat #sapro #studentaffairs #assessment myacpa.org/events/saai

If you are new to #SAassess, @SAAssessLeaders, or just want to learn more about student affairs assessment, I strongly encourage you to read @beckielkins (2015) “Looking Back and Ahead: What we Must Learn from 30 Years of Student Affairs Assessment.”

I am finding the new Occasional Paper (#52) from @NILOA_web “Advances, Contributions, Obstacles, and Opportunities in Student Affairs Assessment,” hard to read.

The work of so many professionals in the 1990s, such as Erwin, Upcraft, and Schuh are evidence that the important work we are doing began well before 2010. Are we there yet? No. Can we get better? Yes. But let’s look back with respect and reverence for the movement and work.