Current Issue: Volume 12, Issue 4 (2011) Is There an Enduring Purpose for Student Affairs?

Some periods of rapid social change become transforming, watershed moments for reassessing the basic mission and purposes of student affairs work. The old forms and structures cannot carry the new realities and require new paradigms of meaning and purpose. In selected articles of this issue of the JCC, authors explore the question of whether student affairs work today has an enduring purpose, and they examine the implications of this question for the contemporary work of student affairs.