The Difference Between Fixing, Helping, and Serving in Higher Education and Student Affairs

Although student affairs professionals in this field strive towards serving students, it is common for them to fix or help students by default. In this commentary, I examine how disconnection with students can manifest in fixing and helping, while serving can embrace students’ wholeness and strengthen interconnectedness. Additionally, I explore the difference between fixing, helping, and serving in higher education and student affairs through the critical lens of Rachel Naomi Remen (1999) and my lived experiences as an emerging student affairs professional. Student affairs professionals must understand the difference between fixing, helping, and serving to acknowledge how each of these three approaches are relevant to their roles. I recommend that student affairs professionals move towards serving students by taking a holistic, student-centered approach that demonstrates care and compassion for the shifting needs of students in higher education

Profiling the Professionals: Who's Serving Our Communities?

While Jewish communal agencies and the professionals who staff them have fostered a virtual explosion in the social scientific study of the work of these agencies, remarkably little systematic attention has been paid to these professionals themselves. Heretofore, no recent survey-based research has tried to address and comprehend the wide swath of individual incumbents in this field. We have little systematic evidence pertaining to their socio-demographic characteristics, Jewish background, current Jewish engagement, professional characteristics, and how these and other features may vary by such prime axes of social differentiation as age and gender. In this report, which analyzes results of a social scientific survey of self-selected Jewish communal professionals in the United States and Canada, we begin to advance our understanding of these and related areas

Young Professionals\u27 Organizations - Just Another Happy Hour

Today there are an abundance of young professionals\u27 organizations, yet there is little research on what individuals hope to gain from their participation in such groups, why they join such groups, and their concurrent leadership development. Using a review of academic literature and interviews with young professionals serving on or recently serving on an executive committee for a young professionals\u27 organization working to end Alzheimer\u27s disease, this action research attempts to gain an understanding of young professionals\u27 organrzations and what leadership development opportunities can add to them. It concludes with recommended actions for the group to take

Serving Texas Emergency Care Professionals

Bimonthly magazine containing news and information that pertains to Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. "The magazine's goals are to help organizations function professionally as EMS providers, to educate individuals so they can perform lifesaving prehospital skills under stressful conditions, and to help the public get into the EMS system when they need it" (p. 4). This issue covers preparation for EMS week, NIMS, Texas EMS Conference, and health and well-being of the rescuer

Serving Texas Emergency Care Professionals

Bimonthly magazine containing news and information that pertains to Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. "The magazine's goals are to help organizations function professionally as EMS providers, to educate individuals so they can perform lifesaving prehospital skills under stressful conditions, and to help the public get into the EMS system when they need it" (p. 4). This issue covers updates on computerized testing, Texas EMS Conference, criminal history and EMS certification, and traumatic brain injury

Serving Texas Emergency Care Professionals

Bimonthly magazine containing news and information that pertains to Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. "The magazine's goals are to help organizations function professionally as EMS providers, to educate individuals so they can perform lifesaving prehospital skills under stressful conditions, and to help the public get into the EMS system when they need it" (p. 4). This issue covers topics on local projects grants, GETAC recap, Babe Aycock, and computerized testing

Serving Texas Emergency Care Professionals

Bimonthly magazine containing news and information that pertains to Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. "The magazine's goals are to help organizations function professionally as EMS providers, to educate individuals so they can perform lifesaving prehospital skills under stressful conditions, and to help the public get into the EMS system when they need it" (p. 4). This issue covers topics on EMS in El Dorado, GETAC recap, congestive heart failure, and Texas EMS Conference 2008

Serving Texas Emergency Care Professionals

Bimonthly magazine containing news and information that pertains to Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. "The magazine's goals are to help organizations function professionally as EMS providers, to educate individuals so they can perform lifesaving prehospital skills under stressful conditions, and to help the public get into the EMS system when they need it" (p. 4). Topics addressed in this issue cover Texas EMS Conference, EMS awareness month, making a difference, and anaphylaxi

Serving Texas Emergency Care Professionals

Bimonthly magazine containing news and information that pertains to Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. "The magazine's goals are to help organizations function professionally as EMS providers, to educate individuals so they can perform lifesaving prehospital skills under stressful conditions, and to help the public get into the EMS system when they need it" (p. 4). This issue covers EMS memorial moves, new controlled substance regulations, Epiglottitis, Ryan White Care Act, and honoring the best emergency groups

Serving Texas Emergency Care Professionals

Bimonthly magazine containing news and information that pertains to Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. "The magazine's goals are to help organizations function professionally as EMS providers, to educate individuals so they can perform lifesaving prehospital skills under stressful conditions, and to help the public get into the EMS system when they need it" (p. 4). This issue covers topics on Texas EMS Conference '99, licensed paramedic, Texas EMS hall of fame, poison prevention, trauma systems, and congestive heart failure