Appreciative Mentoring: Supporting New Student Affairs Professionals in a World in Flux

Mentoring has long been viewed as an important avenue for supporting new professionals in student affairs. As higher education institutions experience significant challenges with recruitment and retention in student-facing positions, support for professional development is even more pressing. Appreciative Mentoring (AM) is a staff mentoring model built on the Appreciative Inquiry framework. Presenters will provide tools for implementing AM with early-career student affairs professionals.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand and recall basic principles of appreciative inquiry
2. Apply principles of appreciative inquiry to mentoring new professionals

Continuing Education Credits

This session counts for 1.0 CSAEd-CORE credit 

NASPA has been approved by the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification to provide CE credit for Certified Student Affairs Educators (CSAEd). NASPA is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.

Guidelines for earning CE credit: 

No partial credit will be rewarded. 

Credit is available for attending the live session or viewing the on-demand recording, not both. While on-demand is available to registrants for 365 days, CSAEd credits and certificates must be retrieved no longer than 60 days after the event (June 7, 2024). 

To receive CSAEd credit, attendees must complete the Feedback Survey in the session offering the certification. Once the survey is completed, your Certificate will be available on the Virtual Conference Continuing Education website. The Certificate of Completion, which will show the event and credit earnings, is available for download and/or print from the event in your Online Learning Community.