A new book, Student Affairs and Services in Higher Education: Global Foundations, Issues, and Best Practices, 3rd edition, which has recently been published, features a number of authors from Stellenbosch University (SU).
With
250 authors, advisors and editors from over 125 countries this book is a
truly global collaborative effort to capture the diverse, significant
and expansive theories, frameworks, practices, models and services
provided by Student Affairs and Services in Higher Education across the
globe. This comprehensive book is the reference book for scholars,
researchers and practitioners across the globe on all matters related to
Student Affairs in Higher Education. The informative chapters cover a
vast breadth of issues including principles, values, theories and
frameworks, professionalisation, research and scholarship, social
justice, equality and gender issues, engagement, internationalisation,
retention and graduate competencies, governance and student
participation, leadership and migration, a discussion of over 42
functional areas and almost 100 country reports. The authors are of the
highest caliber and greatest diversity and share their formidable
knowledge and experience, all detailing the immense impact Student
Affairs and Services have in Higher Education across the globe.
This
629 paged book is edited by Roger B. Ludeman (editor in chief) and
Birgit Schreiber, the former Senior Director for the Division Student
Affairs at SU. They have brought together a formidable collection of
authors presenting a diverse lens and textured understanding of this
essential part of Higher Education. Each author has contributed his and
her experience making this a rich, comprehensive and compelling resource
for all Higher Education across the globe.
Contributing authors
from SU include Prof Magda Fourie-Malherbe, Drs Munita Dunn-Coetzee and
Taryn Bernard, and Ruth Andrews, Jaco Greeff Brink, JC Landman, Anele
Mdepa, Tonia Overmeyer and Pieter Kloppers.
The book can be downloaded free of charge by clicking here