-: My name is Stephanie Bondi,
and I am a Professor of Practice at UNL.
Before coming to UNL I worked
on a variety of college campuses.
I have worked in Resident's Life,
and I've worked with Student Conduct,
and with student organizations and in the Student Union
on a variety of different size campuses,
small campuses, medium campuses,
even an online university.
So I advise in the Student Affairs Master's Program.
I teach classes like the Research class,
and Higher Education and the Law,
and Program Evaluation and Assessment.
And I advise Master students,
and I coordinate the Student Affairs Program.
So as the Coordinator of the Student Affairs Program
I help make sure students understand
the requirements of the program.
I provide a lot of information
about what's going on on campus
so that students know opportunities
to attend student events or get involved
with some professional development,
or to learn more about the profession.
I really like working in educational administration
because people are generally glad to see me
when I show up, and we have a lot of fun together.
People are interested in what I'm doing,
and I'm interested in what all of our students are doing,
so it's a nice place to have those connections,
to come in, to do our work,
but to enjoy doing it with each other.
I would say a successful student
is somebody who's willing to come in and try things out,
and it doesn't always work the way
that they expect it to work,
but in education there aren't very clear answers,
and the way that we approach things
depends on the specific situation,
and so our students really need
to be able to be adaptable,
and what we teach in our classes
is not the right way to do things,
but ways to analyze problems,
so that in different situations
students can figure out for themselves
what's gonna work in that situation,
what the student's needs are,
and how they can really support students in their success
in college in their growth and development.