Hello, fellow Texans!
It's me, Cynthia from Texas State here to post a few quick lines about student affairs and academic affairs collaboration ideas.
Ideas pertaining to collaborative efforts between student affairs and academic affairs are broad and diverse. Campus-wide programming or events, hall programming, service learning opportunities, etc. can all be opportunities for student affairs professionals and faculty to collaborate to impact student learning. Inviting academic affairs personnel to impart their knowledge in any way is collaboration. However, I think that as we encourage collaboration between academic affairs, we can also contribute to student learning by asking questions that force students to explore topics deeper and look at relationships among other ideas. Thus, incorporating Depth and Complexity into programming efforts gives us a way to impact student learning and foster critical thinking skills, empathy and overall knowledge about a subject.
Depth and Complexity is a concept from Sandra Kaplan and is used in curriculum and instruction, especially in GT courses. However, the questions and the categories are helpful in giving student affairs professionals ideas in questions to ask when facilitating discussions after programming. Many times I've been to programs where that were really creative and well put together, but did not facilitate group discussion to get students really thinking abou the topic and how it will impact their lives. If we are going to be intentional in what we want our students to take from our services and programs, we must start by asking the some thought-provoking questions.

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