Student Affairs On-Line The on-line magazine about technology and Student Affairs Daniel Salter Penn State University Editor Stuart Brown StudentAffairs.com Executive Editor Spring 2001 • Vol. 2, No. 2

Join our mailing list!    First Name        Last Name        School        Email            ©2007    StudentAffairs.com    All Rights Reserved	Editor's Notes Daniel W. Salter The Pennsylvania State University Greetings, Spring has been a challenging time for some campuses, especially here at Penn State. The increasing number of computer-mediated incidents (often in the form of the anonymous, hate-filled e-mail note) has become a substantial force in the lives of many students and the staff who work with them. Truly, technology is impacting all aspects of our profession, both positively and negatively. This edition of SAO looks at a few positive angles on providing online student services. We hope you enjoy them. DWS Inside This Issue Featured Articles Will Barratt has contributed two articles to this edition. In the first, he offers Models for Evaluating Student Affairs Web Sites. As Will points-out, student affairs divisions have had varied success in their efforts to create informative and functional web sites that exist within a larger mission of student development education. He even provides a rating sheet! In Beyond Face-to-Face: One Institution's Journey to Develop Online Student Services and Ways to Get Started, Susan Smith describes the establishment of a comprehensive program of online student services at Weber State University. Susan also outlines some considerations for others who are charged with this awesome responsibility. Working from the successes at his institution, Ted Maday provides some additional insights in his contribution, Online Academic Advising: The Capella Model. Their use of fulltime, online academic advisors may serve as a model for other institutions who use distance education. Cary Anderson is back with his second installment of Online Cheating: A New Twist to an Old Problem. In this part, Cary discusses online resources for identifying plagiarized works. In his second article, Managing Information Technology in Student Affairs: A Report on Policies, Practices, Staffing and Technology, Will Barratt summarizes his preliminary findings on the current state of IT in student affairs. Distance Learning and a Well Rounded Education: A Dichotomy? by Zav Dadabhoy outlines several policy considerations and recommendations to higher education institutions who are committed to fitting emerging technology to our long-held goal of educating the whole student. Finally, in a somewhat lighter tone, Larry Moneta enlightens us into the evolving "digital lifestyle" of college students in The Story of Sally….a Techno-Fable. Book Review Two books to add to your list of "must reads" in technology. The Web Learning Fieldbook: Using the World Wide Web to Build Workplace Learning Environments was written by Valorie Beer and is reviewed by Eric L. Dicken Stuart J. Brown reviews Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton. On StudentAffairs.Com As Student Affairs Online is graciously sponsored by StudentAffairs.Com, new information on the website is provided.