Program Objectives
The objectives of the masters of science degree program in student personnel administration are:
- To examine the development, problems, and practices of higher education as a social institution from historical and contemporary perspectives and to project future circumstances.
- To study the historic and current role of student personnel services in higher education and anticipate needed future changes.
- To emphasize and apply the concept of student development and learning as a focal point of the program.
- To offer opportunities for the student, with faculty assistance, to set personal and professional goals, practice self-assessment, develop life skills, and become a better communicator.
- To provide the techniques and knowledge needed to understand and conduct research.
- To focus on social and cultural changes in the United States with emphasis on the roles of society's special and minority subcultures.
- To provide supervised practicum experience in several areas of student affairs administration and/or community services.
- To acquire an understanding of counseling theories and skill in the effective use of counseling techniques.
- To make students aware of the value of peers as learning resources and of the importance of self-direction to maintain a lifelong learning process.
- To help students understand the campus environment, apply learning and appropriate finance and management procedures.
- To recognize and evaluate the special importance of the student personnel professional as a humanistic and value-oriented educator, change agent, and learning facilitator within the framework of the university and society.
