*Note: All competency descriptions are taken from the ACPA and NASPA Professional Competency Areas for Student
Affairs Practitioners (2010)
ACPA/NASPA
Competency
Area
Advising &
Helping
The Advising
and Helping
competency
area addresses
the knowledge,
skills, and
attitudes related
to providing
counseling and
advising
support,
direction,
feedback,
critique,
referral, and
guidance to
individuals and
groups.
Overall Rating:
Skill
Specific
Rating
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Evidence of Learning
Taking on new
opportunities and
experiences to gain
new knowledge by
working with other
specific student
populations like
veterans, LGBTQ
students, etc. attend
events put on my OMA
at Seattle University
and by OMAD at UW.
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ACPA/NASPA
Competency
Area
Skill
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Evidence of Learning
There is a lot of
opportunity for growth
in this area for me as I
pursue a PhD degree. I
seek to gain better
methodological skills
through a PhD
program, and strive to
generate new
knowledge in the field
of higher education
student affairs.
Continue to stay up to
date with new NASPA
publications.
manage
organizations
using AER
processes and
the results
obtained from
them; and to
shape the
political and
ethical climate
surrounding
AER processes
and uses on
campus.
Overall Rating:
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ACPA/NASPA
Competency
Area
Equity,
Diversity, &
Inclusion
The Equity,
Diversity, and
Inclusion (EDI)
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W: Former research
experience with Social
Development Research
Group.
I: Independent study
internship with Academic
Support Programs to
evaluate qualitative student
responses to better
understand the needs of
international students in
transition.
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Skill
Specific
Rating
Evidence of Learning
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Future
Improvement &
Development
I need to
continually
enhance my
multicultural
competence and
learn to address
and/or facilitate
such sensitive
conversations in
group settings. In
competency
area includes
the knowledge,
skills, and
attitudes needed
to create
learning
environments
that are
enriched with
diverse views
and people. It is
also designed to
create an
institutional
ethos that
accepts and
celebrates
differences
among people,
helping to free
them of any
misconceptions
and prejudices.
Overall Rating:
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addition, there is
plenty of room to
grow in
acknowledging the
various
intersections of
multiple identities.
Continue to engage
in difficult
conversations in
order to grow and
having a better
understanding of
how to be inclusive.
ACPA/NASPA
Competency
Area
Skill
Specific
Rating
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()
()
Evidence of Learning
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(+)
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I: Maintaining confidentiality
when students share personal
struggles with me.
Future
Improvement &
Development
Complete SDAD
5800 Higher
Education Law and
SDAD 5750 Best
Practices in
Student Services to
gain further
understanding of
professional
practice.
Need to learn how
to empower others
with information
that can guide their
ethical practice and
to learn how to be
prepared to handle
unethical situations
when they arise.
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Specific
Rating
Evidence of Learning
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Future
Improvement &
Development
Complete SDAD
5750 Best Practices
in Student Services
to better
understand various
practice and values
of different
institution types.
Strive to better
understand the
histories, issues,
and values of other
marginalized
student
populations.
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profession from
which current
and future
research and
practice will
grow. The
commitment to
demonstrating
this competency
area ensures that
our present and
future practices
are informed by
an understanding
of our history,
philosophy, and
values.
Overall Rating:
0 1 2 3 4 5
ACPA/NASPA
Competency
Area
Human &
Organizational
Resources
The Human and
Organizational
Resources
competency area
includes
()
(+)
W: Working in institutional
advancement to better
understand the higher
education financial situation.
W: Opportunities to engage in
dialogue with Dean of the
College of Arts & Sciences re:
Importance of a liberal arts
education.
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Specific
Rating
Evidence of Learning
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Future
Improvement &
Development
Need opportunities
to learn about
conflict
management and
crisis management.
Further enhance
my knowledge on
institutional
differences in
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knowledge, skills,
and attitudes
used in the
selection,
supervision,
motivation, and
formal evaluation
of
staff; conflict
resolution;
management of
the politics of
organizational
discourse; and
the effective
application of
strategies and
techniques
associated with
financial
resources,
facilities
management,
fundraising,
technology use,
crisis
management, risk
management, and
sustainable
resources.
Overall Rating:
hiring processes.
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0 1 2 3 4 5
ACPA/NASPA
Competency Area
Skill
Specific Rating
Evidence of Learning
Future Improvement
& Development
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Overall Rating:
()
()
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()
W: Experience drafting
donor endowment
agreements and
amendments.
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()
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0 1 2 3 4 5
ACPA/NASPA
Competency
Area
Leadership
The Leadership
competency
area addresses
the knowledge,
skills, and
attitudes
required of a
leader, whether
it be a positional
leader or a
member of the
staff, in both an
individual
capacity and
within a process
of how
individuals work
together
effectively to
envision, plan,
effect change in
()
()
Skill
Specific
Rating
Evidence of Learning
(+)
C: SDAD 5300
Foundations of the
Student Affairs
Profession; EDAD 5700
Leadership in Education;
PUBM 5210 Management
and Human Relations;
EDLPS 561 Education
Policies & Leadership in
Political Context; SDAD
5760 Leadership &
Governance in
Postsecondary Education
Pursue other
leadership
opportunities outside
of work and school in
order to become more
connected with the
greater community.
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W: Serving as Co-Chair of
the Asian Pacific Islander
American Faculty and
Staff Association
(APIAFSA) at the
University of Washington.
V: Serving on the Student
Development
Administration Advisory
Board as a student
representative.
O: Serving as Vice
President and President of
the Chinese Student
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organizations,
and respond to
internal and
external
constituencies
and issues.
Overall Rating:
0 1 2 3 4 5
ACPA/NASPA
Competency
Area
Personal
Foundations
The Personal
Foundations
competency
area involves
the knowledge,
skills, and
attitudes to
maintain
emotional,
physical, social,
environmental,
relational,
authority).
Think critically and creatively, and imagine
possibilities for solutions that do not currently
exist or are not apparent.
Identify and then effectively consult with key
stakeholders and those with diverse
perspectives to make informed decisions.
Explain the impact of decisions on diverse
groups of people, other units, and sustainable
practices.
Articulate the logic used in making decisions to
all interested parties.
Exhibit informed confidence in the capacity of
ordinary people to pull together and take
practical action to transform their communities
and world.
Identify and introduce conversations on
potential issues and developing trends into
appropriate venues such as staff meetings.
Skill
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Association during my
time as an undergraduate
at the University of
Washington.
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Specific
Rating
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(+)
Evidence of Learning
C: SDAD 5300
Foundations of the
Student Affairs
Profession; SDAD 5400
Student Development
Theory, Research, and
Practice; EDAD 5700
Leadership in Education;
COUN 5120 Lifespan
Career Development;
EDUC 5200 Social Justice
in Professional Practice;
Being a student at
Seattle University and
in the SDA program
has provided strong
Jesuit values of selfreflection that has
been utilized in most if
not all of my
coursework and life
outside of being at SU.
I understand that there
is no end point in this
process of discovering
who I am as a
professional and aim to
continually build upon
previous beliefs.
W: Regular performance
reviews have been a
helpful opportunity to
reflect, become more selfaware, and receive
feedback from my
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spiritual, and
intellectual
wellness; be
self- directed
and selfreflective;
maintain
excellence and
integrity in
work; be
comfortable
with ambiguity;
be aware of
ones own areas
of strength and
growth; have a
passion for
work; and
remain curious.
Overall Rating:
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ACPA/NASPA
Competency
Area
Student
supervisor.
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Specific
Rating
Evidence of
Learning
Future Improvement
& Development
()
C: SDAD 5300
Foundations of the
Student Affairs Profession
exposed me to the
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Learning &
Development
development.
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(+)
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()
changing demographics of
college students that is
becoming more and more
diverse; SDAD 5400
Student Development
Theory, Research, and
Practice workshop
development allowed me
to create a workshop to
education on Yossos
theory of community
cultural wealth; and in
EDAD 5700 Leadership in
Education, I learned from
class discussions that
involved intersections of
identities and how that
influenced leadership;
I: Applying Schlossberg's
Transition Theory to
practice in designing the
curriculum for GEN ST
297 course.
I: Facilitating EDUC 401
gave me the opportunity
to hold conversations
about different student
populations on campus.
O: Creating a Statement
of Purpose for my PhD
application has allowed
me to reflect upon and
articulate my
developmental journey
and how theyve led me to
my future academic
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(+)
aspirations.