Casey M. Stark
Student Learning & Development
AdviAd
Advising & Helping
The following portfolio serves as an assessment of the skills and knowledge I have developed throughout my graduate experience. The structure of this page is based on a document adopted by the student affairs profession in 2010, Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Practitioners (ACPA/NASPA, 2010). This document outlines 10 competency areas toward which effective student affairs practitioners should be working.
Professional Competency Portfolio
"The Advising and Helping competency area addresses the knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to providing counseling and advising support, direction, feedback, critique, referral, and guidance to individuals and groups" (ACPA/NASPA, p. 6, 2010).
"The Student Learning and Development competency area addresses the concepts and principles of student development and learning theory. This includes the ability to apply theory to improve and inform student affairs practice, as well as understanding teaching and training theory and practice" (ACPA/NASPA, p. 26, 2010).
"The Personal Foundations competency area involves the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to maintain emotional, physical, social, environmental, relational, spiritual, and intellectual wellness; be self-directed and self-reflective; maintain excellence and integrity in work; be comfortable with ambiguity; be aware of one's own areas of strength and growth; have a passion for work; and remain curious" (ACPA/NASPA, p. 24, 2010).
"The Leadership competency area addresses the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required of a leader, whether it be a positional leader or a member of the staff, in both an individual capacity and within a process of how individuals work together effectively to envision, plan, effect change in organizations, and respond to internal and external constituencies and issues" (ACPA/NASPA, p. 22, 2010).
Personal Foundations
Leadership
"The Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) competency area includes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to create learning environments that are enriched with diverse views and people. It is also designed to create an institutional ethos that accepts and celebrates differences among people, helping to free them of any misconceptions and prejudices" (APCA/NASPA, p. 10, 2010).
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Human & Organizational Resources
Assessment, Evaluation & Research
History, Philosophy & Values
"The Ethical Professional Practice competency area pertains to the knowledge skills, and attitudes needed to understand and apply ethical standards to one's work. While ethics is an integral component of all the competency areas, this competency area focuses specifically on the integration of ethics into all aspects of self and professional practice" (APCA/NASPA, p. 12, 2010).
"The Law, Policy, and Governance competency area includes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to policy development proceses used in various contexts, the application of legal constructs, and the understanding of governance structures and their effects on one's professional practice" (ACPA/NASPA, p. 20, 2010).
Law, Policy, & Governance
Ethical Professional Practice
"The Assessment, Evaluation, and Research competency area (AER) focuses on the ability to use, design, conduct, and critique qualitative and quantitative AER analyses; to manage organizations using AER processes and the results obtained from them; and to shape the political and ethical climate surrounding AER processes and uses on campus" (ACPA/NASPA, p. 8, 2010).
"The History, Philosophy, and Values competency area involves knowledge, skills, and attitudes that connect the history, philosophy, and values of the profession to one's current professional practice. This competency area embodies the foundations of the profession from which current and future research and practice will grow. The commitment to demonstrating this competency area ensures that our present and future practices are informed by an understanding of our history, philosophy, and values" (ACPA/NASPA, p. 14, 2010).
"The Human and Organizational Resources competency area includes knowledge, skills, and attitudes used in the selection, supervision, motivation, and formal evaluation of staff; conflict resolution; management of the politics of organizational discourse; and the effective application of strategies and techniques associated with financial resources, facilities management, fundraising, technology use, crisis management, risk management, and sustainable resources" (APCA/NASPA, p. 16, 2010).
Reference
ACPA: College Student Educators International and NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. (2010, July 24). Profesional competency areas for student affairs practitioners. Authors.