College Student Affairs Leadership
About Our Students
Students entering the CSAL program come with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Some come directly out of an undergraduate degree program. Others have been working in higher education or other areas and they realized they lacked the foundational knowledge and the credential of the masters degree. Some students were actively involved in student affairs as undergraduates and decided early on to make it a career. Others came later to a realization that working with students in colleges and universities can provide a challenging and rewarding career.
Few undergraduate students have been exposed to student development theory and come to Grand Valley with majors as diverse as zoology, English, business, political science, religious studies, sociology or teacher preparation. There is no single "right" background to prepare a student for the CSAL program. The diversity of backgrounds helps make each cohort of students interesting, unique and dynamic.
Students entering the CSAL program earned undergraduate degrees from one hundred seven different institutions in twenty-six states and three other countries including:
| Alabama A & M | Rutgers University |
| Albion College | Saginaw Valley State University |
| Alma College | Salesian University, Equador |
| Aquinas College | Seton Hall University |
| Ball State University | Siena Heights University |
| Beaver College | Southeastern Louisiana University |
| Bowling Green State University | Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville |
| Bradley University | Spring Arbor College |
| Bridgewater State College | St. Cloud State University |
| Calvin College | St. Louis University |
| Central Michigan University | St. Olaf College |
| Colorado State University | SUNY-Purchase |
| Cornerstone University | Taylor University |
| Davenport University | The Ohio State University |
| DePaul University | Trevecca Nazarene |
| DePauw University | Unified Teaching Center of Brasilia, Brazil |
| Dominican University | Universidad San Francisco, Equador |
| Dordt College | University of California - Davis |
| Eastern Illinois University | University of California-Santa Barbara |
| Eastern Michigan University | University of Charleston |
| East Carolina University | Unviersity of Cincinnati |
| Elmhurst College | University of Detroit - Mercy |
| Ferris State University | University of Illinois |
| Geneva College | University of Illinois - Chicago |
| Grand Valley State University | University of Kansas |
| Hillsdale College | University of Maryland - Eastern Shore |
| Hope College | University of Michigan |
| Illinois State University | University of Michigan - Flint |
| Indiana University-Bloomington | University of Minnesota - Twin Cities |
| Indiana State University | University of Missouri - Columbia |
| Iowa State University | University of Missouri - Rolla |
| Kalamazoo College | University of Nebraska - Lincoln |
| Kuyper College | University of Nevada - Reno |
| Lake Superior State University | University of Northern Iowa |
| Manchester College | University of Notre Dame |
| Marion College | University of Texas-Austin |
| Marquette University | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Miami University of Ohio | University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire |
| Michigan State University | University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse |
| Michigan Technological University | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| North Carolina State University | University of Wisconisin - Oshkosh |
| North Central College | University of Wisconsin - Parkside |
| Northern Michigan University | University of Wisconsin - River Falls |
| Oakland University | University of Wisconsin - Whitewater |
| Ohio Northern University | Wayne State University |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | Webster University |
| Old Dominion University | Western Illinois University |
| Otterbein College | Western Michigan University |
| Penn State-Altoona | Westminster College |
| Philadelphia College of Textiles | Wheaton College |
| Purdue University | Wilamette University |
| Quinnipiac University | Winston-Salem State University |
| Reed College | Wright State University |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
Since the first cohort of students entered the CSAL program in the fall of 1995, three hundred twenty-four students have completed the M.Ed. and have taken positions in two hundred one higher education institutions and more than thirty organizations in thirty-eight states.
Page last modified December 10, 2012
