Trend Analysis: Why Leaders Fail
- Jasmine Nguyen
- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 13, 2021
Date: June 30, 2021
Description: In EDAD 522, students worked in groups to explore and understand the purpose of trends and how they can impact Student Affairs. Our group chose to analyse a social trend on Why Leaders Fail.
Learning Domains Addressed (Labels):
Assessment & Evaluation
Personal and Professional Development
Learning Outcomes:
Evidence:
Reflection:
SLO #1: SWiBAT analyze demographic data from CSU Fullerton Institutional Research to incorporate into the presentation.
Our group discussed setting up our presentation as a staff meeting at CSU Fullerton (CSUF) by looking at the student demographic data (See Image 1) and questioning how higher education institutions were currently addressing team diversity (About Demographics, 2020). Nowadays, when we hear about diversity in higher education, there are many conversations about diverse hiring practices and making decisions based on data (Hurtado et al., 1999; Kayes, 2006). One of the exciting things we found is the availability of demographic transparency of all departments at CSUF using an interactive dashboard (Demographic Trends, 2020). In Image 2, we chose to look at the racial demographic within Student Affairs and how it has changed from 2013 to the present. We wanted to showcase that although the CSUF student demographic is predominantly Hispanic/LatinX (44%) and Asian (21%), our Student Affairs employee demographic does not mirror the student population it serves. When comparing student data to faculty data (See image 3), the demographic shows a massive differential representation amongst diverse faculty make up. It poses the question: Is CSUF using the data to make diverse hiring practice changes? Hispanic/LatinX student demographic has grown 11% from 2013 (33%) to 2020 (44%), yet Hispanic/LatinX Student Affairs professionals and Faculty numbers have only increased 6% in the last seven years (Demographic Trends, 2020). On a campus that serves 19% White students, the employee-to-student ratio is drastically different from Hispanic/LatinX students.
Employee to student ratio who identify as the same race
White Students (19% of the student population)
Faculty 1:5 Students
Student Affairs Professional 1:67 Students
Hispanic/LatinX Students (44% of student population)
Faculty 1:80 Students
Student Affairs Professional 1:149 Students
In our infographic, we chose to present the student demographic breakdown of CSUF students and Student Affairs Professionals. We also provided clickable links within our digital infographic to encourage our fellow cohort members to explore the dashboards provided by the institutional research department. We hope that providing this information would challenge our classmates to disaggregate data and critically think about the decisions made by our higher education institution.
SLO #2: SWiBAT create an infographic handout with group members to present to the class.
As a group, we decided to split our infographic into sections we thought were the most helpful to our future Student Affairs professionals. In our infographic, we discussed:
What do higher education diversity practices look like currently?
Why is Team Diversity important?
How does Team Diversity affect Students
How does Team Diversity affect Student Affairs Professionals?
What can we do to encourage more Team Diversity?
We chose to utilize bullet points rather than long paragraphs to help simplify the information (See How Leaders Fail PDF). Our team used Canva to help create the infographic. I found that although Canva is user-friendly software. The design elements are not as flexible to use and can be challenging to lay out all the information you’d like to present.
References or Sources:
About Demographics. (2020, November 20). In California State University Fullerton . Retrieved from http://together.fullerton.edu/about/demographics.aspx
Demographic Trends. (2020, February 5). In California State University Fullerton Assessment and InstitutionalEffectiveness . Retrieved from http://www.fullerton.edu/data/institutionalresearch/faculty/staff.php
Hurtado, S.M., Jeffrey, C.P., Allen, Walter, A.A. (1999). Enacting Diverse Learning Environments: Improving the Climate For Racial/Ethnic. ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education Washington.https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED430513.pdf
Kayes, P. E. (2006). New Paradigms for Diversifying Faculty and Staff in Higher Education: Uncovering CulturalBiases in the Search and Hiring Process. Multicultural Education, 14(2), 65–69.
Sanaghan, P. (2017, October 27). The 5 Biggest Mistakes Team Leaders Make. Academic Impressions. https://www.academicimpressions.com/blog/the-5-biggest-mistakes-team-leaders-make/.
Question: How have you used data to further explore your interest? Please leave your thoughts in the comments!
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