Infusing Social Justice into Your New Professional Role

About This Course

This course is free for members of the New Professionals and Graduate Students KC, MultiRacial KC, and Gender and Sexuality KC. For more information about pricing (and how to make sure you're getting the appropriate discount), please read below the course description.

Thank you for your interest in our course, Infusing Social Justice into Your New Professional Role, sponsored by the New Professionals and Graduate Students Knowledge Community. During this course, we will discuss topics related to incorporating a lens of diversity within your role as a student affairs professional. Our goal is to build upon NASPA and ACPA’s Competencies to help participants create a personal philosophy related to diversity, understand diversity on both micro and macro levels, and consider how this learning can be applied in professional settings. This course is self-guided with discussion space for dialogue boards to have interaction with course instructors and other participants to discussion questions and provide a space for dialogue with colleagues across our field. We hope that as you progress through this course, you will take away knowledge that will serve you in your role as graduate students and new professionals within student affairs.

Learning Outcomes

During the progression of this course, participants will:

• reflect on and develop a personal definition of diversity and a personal philosophy related to social justice issues;
• identify underlying assumptions that influence institutional culture and resulting diversity discourses/efforts;
• recognize deficit language and its role within higher education;
• develop an understanding of cultural wealth and its role within higher education;
• utilize personal philosophy related to social justice issues to understand individual role within participants’ institution; and
• develop strategies to address social justice issues and utilize resources to shape learning within professional role.

Knowledge Community Pricing

We are aware that there were problems with the previous registration process. To alleviate these issues, members of the New Professionals and Graduate Students KC, MultiRacial KC, and Gender and Sexuality KC will be able to access this course for free through October 31, 2017 by using a coupon code (InfusingKC) during registration:

• You must follow these instructions to register for the course for free. We will not issue refunds if you purchase the course without the coupon code below.
• Click the "Take This Course" icon above.
• Choose to register yourself or a colleage.
• When you reach the payment screen, add the following coupon code in the appropriate box: InfusingKC
• When you add the coupon code, you will see the price zero out on your screen.
• Complete your registration process.
• If you have any trouble with this process, please contact Jace Kirschner (jkirschner@naspa.org) before completing checkout.

Accessing the Course

Once you complete your registration, you will be able to access the course by clicking on the "Login" button at the top of this page (or any page on olc.naspa.org).

• You will be asked to login with your NASPA user name and password. Once you have done so, you will hit continue and be redirected to your dashboard in the Online Learning Community.

• You will find the session listed under "Enrolled."

• You may view the materials as many times as you'd like, at whatever pace you would like.

• If you have any difficulty accessing the materials, please contact Jace Kirschner (jkirschner@naspa.org).