Welcome!

Welcome to the New Student Affairs Professionals Blog!

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this blog, and hopefully you will be able to actively participate in blog posts and discussions once everything gets up and running smoothly. Right now, it is just me blogging, but hopefully we will have many more people contributing to the conversations shortly!

First, I will start out by telling you a little bit about myself. My name is Topher Sutton, and I am currently a Residence Director at The College of New Jersey!  I recently graduated from the brand new Rutgers College Student Affairs masters program in May 2011.  I have been at TCNJ since October 2011, and have already learned so much about being a full time professional in the field.

My hope by starting this blog is that we can all share information and stories with one another about our daily work. My original idea for this blog was for it to be a place where I could write and reflect upon my experiences in order to keep a positive attitude. Then, I started thinking about how it would be beneficial to share and have others participate in the conversation as well.

My hope is that through honest dialogue, we can help one another out as well as receive tips of the trade from people who have been here a little longer than we have. Hopefully we will all get a lot out of this blog, and possibly continue sharing it so that everyone (including new professionals, professionals, as well as those starting their journey into the wonderful field of student affairs) can benefit!

If you have anything you would like to contribute, please send it to newSAprofessionals@gmail.com and I will try to look at it as soon as possible. I do want everything to remain relatively professional, so I don’t want this to turn into a complaining corner or anything like that. Unfortunately, those types of posts will not be shared with the rest of the community. However, if you write a story that starts out with complaining, but then addresses what you were able to get out of the experience, I would LOVE to share it with the world! Also, please proofread so that we can keep it professional. It is a blog for new student affairs PROFESSIONALS, after all.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to conversing soon!