[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-599359-105":59,"doc-detail-599359-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":123,"head_meta":125,"extra_data":127,"updated_unix":129},105,"en","student-affairs-practitioner-scholarship-structural-barriers-and-opportunities-for-institutional-leadership","Student Affairs Practitioner Scholarship - Structural Barriers and Opportunities for Institutional Leadership","","Student affairs practitioner-scholarship can meaningfully improve higher education and students’ lives, yet it is not widely cultivated on college campuses. Systemic barriers often limit practitioner-scholars’ success, and neoliberal influences in higher education are linked to these constraints. The paper argues that institutional leadership must actively foster practitioner-scholarship by removing systemic obstacles, drawing on the authors’ own experiences, anecdotes, challenges, and outcomes. It concludes with recommendations for leaders and faculty.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/student-affairs-practitioner-scholarship-structural-barriers-and-opportunities-for-institutional-leadership/599359/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/student-affairs-practitioner-scholarship-structural-barriers-and-opportunities-for-institutional-leadership/599359.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"WPS_1790064749","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-01","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":34},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"Why does the paper argue that student affairs practitioner-scholarship matters?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"It states that practitioner-scholarship has the potential to transform higher education and improve students’ lives, linking scholarly practice to better student learning and well-being.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What systemic barriers limit practitioner-scholars’ success?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"The text highlights lack of time, limited institutional or supervisory support, and limited access to current scholarly literature, while also linking these patterns to neoliberal influences in higher education.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What does the paper recommend for institutional leaders and faculty?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"It calls for leaders and supervisors to proactively create institutional environments that foster practitioner-scholarship, including prioritizing time, access, and funding and intentionally valuing scholarship.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},599359,1792209189,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":34,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},3985747859154,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_276721f389ce27ea32af1340a28f341c","STUDENT AFFAIRS PRACTITIONER SCHOLARSHIP: STRUCTURAL BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP  \nChelsea Gilbert Scott Burden  \nThe Ohio State University Lehigh University  \nAbstract  \nStudent affairs practitioner-scholarship has the potential to transform higher education and improve the lives of students; however, it is rarely cultivated on college campuses. Instead, many practitioner-scholars struggle with systemic barriers to their success, much of which can be linked to the influence of neoliberalism in higher education. In this paper, we make a case for the imperative of institutional leadership to actively encourage practitioner-scholarship through the elimination of systemic barriers. We build on our own experiences as practitioner-scholars and share anecdotes that relate to our challenges and successes in pursuing and producing scholarship. We close by offering recommendations for institutional leaders and higher education faculty members.  \nKeywords: practitioner-scholar, neoliberalism, student affairs  \nPlease direct inquires about this manuscript to: Chelsea Gilbert, [chelseaelizabethgilbert@gmail.com](chelseaelizabethgilbert@gmail.com)  \nCollege Student Affairs Journal, Volume 40(2), pp. 129-142 ISSN 2381-2338  \nCopyright 2022 Southern Association for College Student Affairs All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.  \n130 College Student Affairs Journal Vol. 40, No. 2, 2022  \nS  \ntudent affairs practitioners are, first and foremost, educators (NASPA, 2004) . Their scope of influence on college student experiences is immense, and their  \nresponsibility for fostering many aspects of holistic development is critical for student learning and well-being (Reynolds et al., 2009) . Despite the decades of research and theoretical history that foreground student affairs practice (NASPA, 2004), the fact remains that “the people who conduct most of the published research [in higher education and student affairs] are not the same people as those who practice in the larger domain of [the] profession”(Fried, 2002, p. 123) . This disconnect has implications for the students served by these practitioners, who are increasingly likely to hold minoritized identities (NCES, 2020) . Student affairs practitioners are on the front lines of colleges and universities as those charged with supporting and advising students through personal relationships (Reynolds et al., 2009); as such, they often“have intimate knowledge of what can positively or negatively impact [minoritized] students’ academic success... [and] can contribute to creating a more just society”(Hatfield, 2015, p. 5) as a result. In response to this, practitioner-scholarship has been proposed as one means of bridging the gap between knowledge production and professional practice (Boss & Dunn, 2021; Boss & Dunn, 2022; Carpenter & Haber-Curran, 2013; Hatfield & Wise, 2015; Jablonski et al., 2006; Jones, 2014) .  \nThough a focus on student affairs practitioner-scholarship has grown increasingly in recent years (see, for example, Hatfield & Wise, 2015), several barriers exist that prevent such scholarship from flourishing in the student affairs profession. Student affairs literature has identified some of these barriers as endemic to the culture of student affairs work and the pervasive “tyranny of the urgent”(Sriram, 2011, p. 1)“rather than taking time to unwind the complexities of practice, weare forced to move quickly”(Fried, 2002, p. 120) . Indeed, student affairs practitioners themselves have reported the greatest barriers to engaging in  \nscholarship are lack of time, institutional or supervisory support, and access to current scholarly literature (Fey & Carpenter, 1996; Sriram & Oster, 2012) . Despite the systemic nature of these barriers, most literature on scholarly practice in student affairs has placed responsibility for overcoming them on practitioners themselves, who have been encouraged to act more thoughtfully and intentionally (Carpenter & Habe","cbCaibdQlWkvQlzB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibdQlWkvQlzB","pdf",295356,14,"English","# Abstract\n# Student Affairs Practitioner Scholarship and the Need for Institutional Leadership\n## Barriers to Practitioner-Scholarship in Student Affairs\n## Institutional Imperatives and Recommendations","[{\"question\":\"Why does the paper argue that student affairs practitioner-scholarship matters?\",\"answer\":\"It states that practitioner-scholarship has the potential to transform higher education and improve students’ lives, linking scholarly practice to better student learning and well-being.\"},{\"question\":\"What systemic barriers limit practitioner-scholars’ success?\",\"answer\":\"The text highlights lack of time, limited institutional or supervisory support, and limited access to current scholarly literature, while also linking these patterns to neoliberal influences in higher education.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the paper recommend for institutional leaders and faculty?\",\"answer\":\"It calls for leaders and supervisors to proactively create institutional environments that foster practitioner-scholarship, including prioritizing time, access, and funding and intentionally valuing scholarship.\"}]","Student Affairs Practitioner Scholarship - Structural Barriers and Opportunities for Institutional Leadership | PDF",1792088625,35]