Competency X- Legal and Ethical Issues
Artifact One: Educating Students on the differences between regional vs. national accreditations
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The presentation Kingdom of My Mind also approaches the important and difficult issue of intensive marketing that the for-profit education industries currently perpetrate on first generation and academically underprepared undergraduate students. Arguably, these for profit schools and their priority commitment to their shareholders can be viewed as unethical in relation to their self-serving marketing aimed at these socioeconomically disadvantaged students and their families.
Borrego, S.E. (2003). Class matters: Beyond Access to Inclusion. NASPA, invited paper, 1-8. ISBN 978-0-931654-36-7 Gadek, R. M. (2009-2013). Regional accreditation or national accreditation. Retrieved from http://www.onlinecollegereport.com/regional-accreditation-and-national- accreditation/ Stanford, M. (2012). 193 vocational programs, all at for-profits, fail 'gainful employment' test. Chronicle of Higher Education. 58(40), A14-A15. |
Artifact Two: My Helping Philosophy |
Coming out as a transwoman changed my perspective on the world, and instilled in me a ferocious desire to help other cultural minorities as a student affairs professional. Today, I find that my passions in this area has expanded because of the lens of who it is that I am, and those students with whom I can identify. This would most notably include students of color, women, and members of the LGBTQ community. I consider it my moral obligation and calling to help the underrepresented find their voice.
Adams, M., Blumenfeld, W. J., Castaneda. C., Hackman, H. W., Peters, M. L., & Zuniga, X. (Eds.) (2010). Readings for diversity and social justice. New York, NY: Routledge Baxter Magolda, M. B. (2001). Making their own way: Narratives for transforming higher education to promote self-development. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC. Johnson, A. G. (2006). Privilege, power, and difference. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. |
Artifact Three: Coming Out as a Trans* Student Affairs Professional
Living full-time as a woman was an fundamental issue of being authentic, being able to embrace cultural difference in myself, and without hypocrisy being able to do the same for others. For the LGBTQ community coming out is an ethical dilemma that often puts the individual in conflict with family, friends, and colleagues. Progressing through the experience is an exercise in being able to withstand being an object of hate, repeated devaluation of one's authenticity by others, and of measured losses. My ethical belief in the right for each of us to define our life's under our own terms, also a fundamental aspect of my student affairs philosophy, is the ideal that gives me the strength to continue to be.
Baxter Magolda, M. B. (2001). Making their own way: Narratives for transforming higher education to promote self-development. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC. Jeffers, S. (1987). Feel the fear and do it anyway: Dynamic techniques for turning fear, indecision, and anger into power, action, and love. New York, NY: MJF Books. Serano, J. (2007). Whipping girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press Stryker, S. (2008). Transgender history. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press |
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