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Doing an unconventional "SA conference"/day-long convo in Feb. One day. Boston. Need topic ideas. #sachat #notyourmomsnoryourpopsconference
— Kenn Elmore (@DeanElmore) December 12, 2011
I happened to see this tweet from Kenn Elmore, Boston University's Dean of Students, the other day and I think it needs more exposure. An "unconventional" Student Affairs Unconference is a fairly provocative way of framing an event. While this will not be the first Student Affairs Unconference, I have a feeling that the "unconventional" aspect will serve as a draw for a lot of Student Affairs professionals in the greater Boston area. Since I'm all about engaging with fellow Student Affairs practitioners on Twitter, I offered up my own 140 character idea to answer Elmore's query:
@DeanElmore How about a conversation about where student affairs is headed as a profession? How are we evolving? What's new? #sachat #sagrad
— Eric Stoller (@EricStoller) December 13, 2011
The neat aspect of Twitter is that people are constantly "lurking and learning." Lisa Endersby tweeted out that perhaps Elmore should invite a Canadian contingent to the Unconventional Student Affairs Event:
@EricStoller @DeanElmore What Eric said. We're all over that up North. @cacusstweets might be interested in this convo too.
— Lisa Endersby (@lmendersby) December 13, 2011
The Dean of Students at George Washington University, Peter Konwerski, answered my tweet with his thoughts to the future of Student Affairs:
At #GWU its more personalized, focused on 1 on 1 engagement RT @EricStoller Where student affairs is headed as profession? Are we evolving?
— Peter Konwerski (@GWPeterK) December 13, 2011
Sometimes I wish that there was a "like" button on Twitter. Virginia's comment works for me! Student Affairs + Technology for the win!
@EricStoller one thing is learning to work with technology, not against it! ;) #sachat #sagrad
— Virginia Do (@virginiahdo) December 13, 2011
So what do you think? What topics should be discussed at an unconventional Student Affairs unconference?
Note: Now that New, New Twitter is here and embedding tweets is as easy as embedding a YouTube video, I plan on featuring tweets from Student Affairs pros every once in a while. Your tweets might just be featured in my next post!
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