Steps to Creative Campus Collaboration

Abstract

Orientation and transition professionals understand that change is multifaceted and complex. This paper outlines the steps to changing campus climate to include effective collaboration between academic and student affairs. Obstacles to dialogues, creating a common language, and "knowing in community" are discussed, and examples of programs easily lending themselves to collaborative efforts are given.

Keywords

• change
• institutional culture
• common language
• knowing the community
• collaboration
• service learning
• learning communities
• extended orientation courses
• coordinated programs
• multicultural learning
• leadership education
• distance learning