Higher Education and Student Affairs Leadership Concentration Current Student Resources
This page provides resources and information for currently enrolled WMU HESA students. Please contact the HESA faculty coordinator, Dr. Ramona Lewis, if you see information that needs to be updated.
HESA handbook & Academic requirements
- Program handbook for HESA students (HESA student handbook)
- HESA student GOLD handout - HESA graduate opportunities for learning and success; a document to help set your plan for success.
- HESA blank grid for program planning
- HESA MA instructions for program of study This sample HESA Program of Study document includes instructions along with a sample for students.
- HESA MA blank program of study (This document is left blank so that students can use it to complete and submit their official program of study)
- Graduation information - students need to apply by deadlines each year to be eligible for graduation.
- Directory of WMU student support services
- WMU academic calendar
Register for classes and course registration info
- HESA Suggested Rotation of Courses for Fall 2024 entering students (please see advisor for creating a program of study)
- HESA 5-year course rotation plan (in progress being updated, contact Dr. Lewis)
- Multi-year Course Offering Plans
- HESA Courses (webpage)
- HESA Courses and Descriptions (printable PDF). This document includes full course descriptions as well as instructions for approval of diversity cognates
- HESA Diversity Cognates (see the Courses page of the HESA website)
- WMU Course Offerings / Class Lookup (use this to page search for upcoming or previous courses)
- How to register for WMU course - includes instructions and videos
Field experience and capstone experience
- Student manual for field experience and capstone
- Field experience and capstone application and approval form (use this form to sign up for your Field or Capstone)
- Student learning goals and objectives for field experience and capstone
- Here is a sample list of past field experience and capstone sites
HESA student learning assessments
Site supervisors of field and capstone experiences materials
Would you like to mentor and supervise a graduate student in gaining hands on experience and learning more about the profession? If so then we welcome you to contact any of the HESA faculty or Dr. Ramona Lewis, the faculty coordinator. The first document below provides a brief overview and the site supervisor manual provides a more detailed description.
- What is a HESA field or capstone experience? (This document is designed for potential or new site supervisors and briefly summarizes the field and capstone experience as well as how to become a site).
- Site supervisors manual for HESA field and capstone experience This document is designed for site supervisors and also includes helpful information about how to develop a position description.
WMU general information & additional support services
- WMU A-Z Directory
- WMU Academic Calendar
- WMU Student Services
- WMU Technology Resources
- WMU Elearning Support
- WMU Graduate College
- Experience WMU to discover campus programs and events
- WMU Library workshops
- WMU Signature
- Graduate Student Association (GSA)
Graduate College resources
- Graduate College Forms may be found at http://www.wmich.edu/grad/forms
- Graduate student orientation is available in your Elearning portal
- Graduate student Responsible Conduct of Research course is available in your Elearning portal
Graduate appointments (GA)
Visit the Graduate Appointee section of the Graduate College website information: https://wmich.edu/grad/current-students/appointments. Questions about Graduate Appointments (GA’s) pay and processing are directed to the Graduate College at grad_awards@wmich.edu. Students who hold GA’s and have not seen their tuition pay out, please consider the following. If the answer to any of the following questions is yes, then tuition will pay out during the two weeks after census. Census for each semester is after the drop/add deadline.
Are you enrolled for less than six credits? Did you submit a permission to under enroll form? Under-enrollment form – students who hold a GA and are registered for less than 6 credits on a graduate appointment need to complete the under enrollment form and submit for faculty advisor approval.
Opportunities for funding conferences, travel and more
- ELRT funding sources: https://wmich.edu/leadership/funding
- Other WMU funding sources: https://wmich.edu/grad/fellowships-grants
- Graduate Student Travel/Virtual Grant: https://wmich.edu/grad/fellowships-grants/gstg
- Graduate Student Research Grant: https://wmich.edu/grad/fellowships-grants/gsrg
- Gradate Student Association funding opportunities (conference, research, RSO, certification): https://wmich.edu/gsa/funding
- Office of the Vice President for Research: https://wmich.edu/research
Additional student affairs & higher education resources
- ACPA/NASPA professional competency areas for student affairs professionals (2015)
- Rubric format ACPA/NASPA professional competency areas for student affairs professionals
- Student affairs related resources
- Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS Standards)
- CAS Statement of Shared Ethical Principles
- ACPA Statement of Ethical Principles and Standards
- CAS Characteristics of Individual Excellence
Alumni information & giving to support HESA current students
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