Student Affairs Assessment Leaders

🌮🍹 What an incredible night at The Social Cantina at the 2024 #AssessmentInstitute. Our biggest SAAL social yet (36 people), filled with great tacos, margaritas, and even better company. Thanks to everyone who came out to connect, share, and enjoy the evening together. Looking forward to more amazing gatherings with this fantastic community! #SAALsocial #TacoAndMargaritaNight #BuildingConnections

Tonight’s the night! 🌮 Join us for the SAAL Social at the 2024 #AssessmentInstitute at The Social Cantina (148 S. Illinois St.) for tacos and great company! We’ll be meeting in the lobby at 6:45 pm to walk over together. Looking forward to connecting with everyone! #SAAL #StudentAffairs #HigherEd

There's still time to show your SAAL colleagues some love by nominating for one of the 11 SAAL award categories! Nominations accepted through November 15! 💚 For more information and to submit a nomination: https://lnkd.in/e4-BHCDv

The SAAL Board of Directors is excited to introduce our two newest Board members: Maureen Guarcello, PhD and Kyle Amore. They will officially begin their terms in January of 2025 as EUNKYOUNG PARK and Megan Bell, PhD Bell complete their service at the end of December. Maureen A. Guarcello has more than 20 years of higher education experience, with research and practice focused on the ways predictive and learning analytics inform student success interventions and higher education policy. Before joining San Diego State University, Maureen earned her PhD from the University of San Diego, where she was a full scholar and graduate research assistant. Maureen serves as the director for SDSU's Program Evaluation, Compliance, and Assessment unit within Student Affairs and Campus Diversity. The research Maureen conducts with SDSU colleagues and education partners recognizes the presence of bias in student success interventions and risk assessment. Her work focuses on machine learning and statistical methods to reduce bias in the data, ultimately producing more accurate and equity-minded student support interventions for students. When she is not geeking out on data and technology, Maureen is an avid runner, music lover, and San Francisco Giants fan. Kyle Amore is the Associate Director of Co-curricular Assessment at Santa Clara University. Kyle comes from a residential life background with a focus on Living Learning Communities. His practice of assessment in residential life programs led to a full-time role helping Student Affairs professionals to build and use assessment skills to continuously improve their impact with students. Kyle is in his second year of his Doctorate in Social Justice Leadership with interest in studying the connection between trust and student assessment. When he's not working or studying Kyle enjoys hiking in the redwoods, hanging out at the beach, and playing board games with friends. Kyle has been a member of the Community Development and Engagement for the past 2 years where he hosted New Professional Conversations and a couple meet-ups at conferences. He is excited to continue to help with efforts to pull the SAAL membership together and build a culture of belonging across SAAL!

Assessment minded? Wanting to join a group of other assessment minded leaders? Then apply to join our Directorate Board! Application opens Monday, October 7th.

Tired of data silos? Ready to find ways to integrate your Student Affairs data with the data from other divisions at your institutions? Well, we've got a Structured Conversation for you. Join Drs. Heather Strine-Patterson and Ellissa Brooks Nelson, Ph.D. in our next Structured Conversation to learn about the building of a Student Affairs Data Lake. Thursday, October 17, 2024 from 2 PM - 3 PM EDT RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eGzESdgJ

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🌮🎉 Taco 'Bout Networking! Join us for the SAAL Social at the 2024 Assessment Institute! 🎓✨ 📅 When: Monday, October 28th, 2024, 7:00pm 📍 Where: The Social Cantina, 148 S. Illinois St., Indianapolis, IN 🎊 Mingle with fellow assessment professionals, enjoy some great food, and build connections that last beyond the Institute! Don’t miss out on the fun! 🌟 👉 RSVP to Karina at karina.knutson@und.edu and bring your colleagues! Let’s make this night one to remember! #SAALAISocial2024 #AssessmentLeaders #AssessmentInstitute #NetworkingNight #SocialCantina #Indy2024 #StudentAffairs #HigherEdLeadership #LetsTacoBoutAssessment #SAALevents

It's that time again! SAAL Award nominations are officially open! 💚 Know someone who is crushing it in the field of Student Affairs Assessment? Show some love and nominate them for one of the 11 award categories! Nominations are open through November 15th. Let's celebrate the great work being done to advance Student Affairs assessment in our communities. P.S. Nominators must be SAAL members, but nominees do not have to be current members. For more info and to nominate: https://lnkd.in/e4-BHCDv

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