Connecting Career Outcomes, Equity Gaps, and ROI in Higher Education: The Strategic Role of Student Affairs
Education is a long-term investment. It can take years before a graduate truly understands and appreciates how their postsecondary experiences prepared them for life after college. In Student Affairs, this presents challenges in measuring the impact of their work on student success. This session uses data from the National Alumni Career Mobility survey to highlight alumni perceptions of their undergraduate experience and student affairs' role in closing equity gaps to impact student success after graduation.
Learning Outcomes
1. Articulate the connection between their work in student affairs and the long-term success of students beyond graduation, using alumni data to support their understanding
2. Examine how to apply data from alumni surveys to enhance student affairs programs, focusing on increasing the value of higher education and addressing equity gaps in student and alumni success
3. Identify actionable steps to improve equity and value in higher education outcomes
Kimberly Yousey-Elsener
Research Associate Professor, Higher Education and Student Affairs
Binghamton University
Kim Yousey-Elsener brings over two decades of experience in higher education, having professional roles in coordinating student affairs and academic affairs assessment, undergraduate and graduate level teaching, residence life, academic advising and support, community-engaged learning, student retention, and student activities. Kim currently serves as a Research Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Binghamton University and leads research for the National Alumni Career Mobility Survey (NACM) as the Alumni Survey Research Fellow with Lightcast. Her research interests include career outcomes, alumni surveys, high-impact practices, career mobility, and assessment in higher education and student affairs. Her published works include “Coordinating Divisional and Departmental Student Affairs Assessment” from Routledge Publishing as well as “Successful Assessment for Student Affairs: A How-to Guide” and “Advanced Assessment for Student Affairs: Making Reliable Data-Based Decisions” from Pap
Continuing Education Credits
CSAED
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.
Participants must also complete the feedback survey in the Online Learning Community.
1 Credit is available for attending the live session or viewing the on-demand recording.
To receive CSAEd credit, attendees must complete the feedback survey that offers the certification in each session. Once you have attended all the live sessions or watched the on-demand sessions for which you would like to request credit, visit the Continuing Education (CE) website to fill out the Student Affairs Education Certification Request Form for all the sessions. All certificants must fill out one for the live session and a separate one for the on-demand sessions. Visit the Continued Education (CE) website to learn more regarding deadlines and receive your certificate of completion for the Virtual Conference.
NBCC
This session counts for 1 NBCC credit
NASPA has been approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider for live events.
Participants can receive a maximum of 13 clock hours for attending live sessions at this event. All eligible sessions are identified in the “Credit Information” tab at the top of the individual sessions. To receive credit, please complete the “Feedback Survey” found within each individual session under the “Continuing Education” section. Once the feedback surveys for all attended sessions are complete, complete this request form; a certificate documenting the number of hours of live sessions you attended will be emailed to you within two weeks of you submitting the form.
The deadline to request NBCC continuing education certificates for this event is May 12, 2025. For questions regarding continuing education, please email continuingeducation@naspa.org
