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CAS Standards Presentation

General Instructions

The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) is a consortium of professional associations that work to promote the improvement of programs and services in the College Student Affairs profession. This organization publishes a book entitled "CAS Professional Standards for Higher Education" that outlines the standards for practice and preparation for each of the functional areas of Student Affairs (i.e., Housing, Counseling Services, Career Services, Academic Advising, Greek Life, etc.). Every Student Affairs professional should be familiar with the mission, goals, learning outcomes, ethics, and other related standards of the specific student affairs area in which they work. The CAS Standards provide such information.

As part of your concentration area portfolio (i.e., Housing, Academic Advising, Career Services, etc.), develop a PowerPoint presentation outlining the major points of the CAS Standards aligned to your assigned concentration area. Develop the PowerPoint for a group of professionals who work in a department within the concentration area, with the goal of educating them on the CAS Standards for that specific Student Affairs department.

Include the following components in your presentation:

• Mission • Program Components • Leadership Responsibilities • Human Resources • Ethics • Diversity, Equity, and Access Issues • Institutional and External Relations • Technology • Facilities and Equipment • Assessment and Evaluation

Note: The UWA library has an electronic copy of the CAS Standards Manual that you can access. You may contact a UWA librarian for assistance if needed.

SA501 Graduate Students: Include 10-12 slides in the presentation.

SAL401 Undergraduate Students: Include 7-8 slides in the presentation.

Format Guidelines:

• Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation consisting of a maximum of 7 lines of text per slide (this is to prevent "information overload" on slides). Use 20-point font or larger for readability. Remember that the purpose of a PowerPoint presentation is not to use lots of text but to use bullet points and graphics to convey information.

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• Presentations should be creative, visually appealing, and include technology (i.e., YouTube videos, digital images, etc.). Please avoid using Microsoft Word “clip art” images.

• Students should use APA, 7th ed. formatting to cite all sources. • All presentations should use proper grammar, spelling, etc., appropriate for a graduate-

level presentation.

Scoring Guidelines

Points available: 100.

Component Target Acceptable Unacceptable

Content Accurate content

addressed in a cohesive presentation.

Interesting, smooth delivery that holds the

audience attention. The content is presented clearly and concisely

with a logical progression of ideas and supporting information. Information is complete

and accurate. (60 points)

Smooth delivery that holds audience attention. The content is presented

with a logical progression of ideas but supporting information is

limited, Information presented is accurate.

(40 points)

Delivery not smooth, audience attention lost.

The content lacks a clear point of view. Some of

the information may not seem to fit. Sources

used appear unreliable. Information is missing, incomplete, out of date

and/or incorrect. (20 points)

Attractiveness & Creativity: Presentation

is engaging without being overwhelmed by

text, color, or font.

Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics,

effects, etc. to enhance the presentation. The amount of information

presented in each section is appropriate.

(20 points)

Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects,

etc. to enhance to presentation. May include too much information to be

visually appealing. (15 points)

Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from

the presentation content. Amount of

content/text included in sections is distracting or

overwhelming. (5 points)

APA Format Reference and in-text citations carefully follow

APA format, with no errors. (10 points)

Reference and/or in- text citations follows APA format, with no more than 2 errors.

(5 points)

Reference list and/or in- text citations has more

than 2 APA errors. (0 points)

Writing Correct Grammar, Well-

Organized

Writing is free of all writing errors.

(10 points)

Writing involves few errors (no more than 2).

(5 points)

Writing involves more than 2 errors.

(0 points)