Creswell_Research_Design_ Qualitative Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches 2018 5th Ed

Student Affairs Professional
A professional has been described in many ways. One description identified an individual who exhibited “a high degree of independent
judgment, based on a collective, learned body of ideas, perspectives, information, norms, and habits [and who engage(d) in professional
knowing]” (Baskett & Marsick, 1992, p. 3). A student affairs professional has exhibited such traits in service to students in a higher
education environment, in any one of a number of functions which support academic and co-curricular success (pp. 11–12).
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