Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Practice
Higher Education Administration
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Higher Education Faculty
The Higher Education Administration program prepares scholar-practitioners for leadership in colleges and universities as administrators, educators, and scholars. Through an examination of higher education theory and practice, the program seeks to help students understand the diverse nature of higher education institutions and their participants. With this understanding, graduates are expected to develop individualized styles of leadership that encompass educational excellence, respect for others, and contextualized practices. |
Higher Education Faculty
Roland Mitchell
Roland Mitchell, Assistant Professor in the Higher Education Administration program, joined the ELRC faculty in 2005 upon completion of his PhD from The University of Alabama in Educational Research. His dissertation is entitled Pedagogy, history, and culture: How professors think about race in their classrooms. His primary research interests include the impact of historical and communal knowledge on pedagogy, an exploration of the understandings that allow educators to provide service to students from different cultural, ethnic and social backgrounds, and the theorization of racial identity as it generally relates to collegiate experiences. His office is 121D Peabody Hall, and he can be reached at 225-578-2156 or rwmitch@lsu.edu.
What Can You Do With a Career in Student Affairs?
Careers in student affairs may consist of any advising, counseling, management, or administrative
function at a college or university that exists outside the classroom. However, student affairs
professionals generally work in areas characterized by the descriptions below.
- Functions - Student affairs professionals perform a varied mixture of leading, educating,
individual and group advising, counseling, supervising, teaching, training, planning, program
development, inquiring, managing, financial management, and assessment and evaluation.
Emerging functions include resource attraction and grant writing, entrepreneurship, outcomes
assessment, political negotiation, and cultural assessment.- Departments - Department and program areas typically associated with student affairs
include residence life, commuter services, graduate student services, admissions, new student
orientation, financial aid, counseling centers, advising centers, leadership development, Greek
affairs, student activities, student unions, community service, service learning, career planning and placement, discipline and judicial affairs, alumni relations and development, services for students with disabilities, developmental learning services, and advocacy and support programs (e.g., for students of color, lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender students, veterans, women, international students, adults).- Institutions - Student affairs professionals work in every kind of institution including
private liberal arts colleges, community colleges, public colleges and universities, research
universities, women's colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges, urban
institutions, and for-profit institutions.
