A Guideline of Student Affairs Management in Private Higher Education Institutions in New Normal

Abstract

The primary objective of this research is to establish guidelines for managing student affairs in order to improve student learning outcomes in the new normal. Since administrators' and student affairs professionals' competencies have the potential to influence students' learning results, student affairs professionals must improve themselves in order to succeed and strengthen their competencies in managing their functions, which would lead in students' successful engagement and learning. To gather detailed data, researchers divided the efforts into two phases. The first phase, researchers investigate the context, issues, and recommendations in student affairs management. To measure the main factor influencing in managing student affairs functions, a survey was performed on the 30 most relevant samples. According to the findings, student clubs and budgeting, as well as technology, are the most influential factors in managing student affairs functions. As analyzed that t value of student clubs and budgeting and technology (0.016) and (0.023) were lower than t table (2.048). Second phase, the result of the interview and evaluation form in measuring the quality of guidelines indicated guideline at very high level (= 4.70, SD = 0.60) means guidelines potentially become effective for student affairs management.