Elvo Sou 蘇桂龍 INTERVIEW 專 訪 學員：學生事務工作就是要 幫助學生成為更全面的人 澳大快將搬入新校區並全面推行住宿式書院制 度，可預見屆時將需要大量優秀的學生事務人 員。那麼，目前該如何未雨綢繆呢？澳大今 年5月特地開辦澳門學生事務高級研修班，課 程由美國馬里蘭大學Susan Komives教授精 心設計，是近年來亞洲最全面、最系統的高校 學生事務精品專業課程。研修班課程分五部 分，涵蓋高校學生事務工作的核心內容，分別 邀請了七位來自美國的專家學者授課，包括： 新澤西州羅格斯大學學生事務副校長Gregory S.Blimling博士、高等教育學生事務組織 NAPSA管 理 執 行 董 事Gwendolyn Dungy博 士、愛荷華州立大學Robert Reason教授、俄 勒岡州立大學學生事務教務長Larry Roper博 士、維珍尼亞州大學Karen Inkelas教授、愛荷 華州立大學特聘名譽教授John Schuh博士和 聖地亞哥州立大學Marilee Bresciani教授。另 外，時任台灣東海大學校長的程海東教授、北 京大學副校長張彥博士、耶魯大學歷史學教授 兼卡爾洪學院理事會主席Jonathan Holloway 博士和中山大學學生處處長漆小平博士等，與 學員們分享學生事務工作和住宿式書院的經 驗。 研修班的59名學員來自兩岸四地的高校， 大部分目前均從事與學生事務相關工作。 澳大學生事務部學生輔導及發展處處長蘇桂龍 （Elvo）是研修班學員之一，他形容為期十日的 課程如一門紮實的理論基礎課。Elvo尤其對其 中一位導師提出的「持續積極求變」(Positive Restlessness）的理論及實踐基礎深表認同， 「我們舉辦學生活動面對不少挑戰，若不持續 創新求變，就很難配合大學發展和學生需要。 Participants: Student affairs work should help students achieve well-rounded development It won’t be long before UM moves to the new campus and fully implements the RC system. It is foreseeable that a large number of outstanding student affairs professionals will be needed. So how should UM get ready for that? This May UM established the Macau Student Affairs Institute to offer an advanced course in student affairs, carefully designed by Prof. Susan Komives at the University of Maryland. The course was Asia’s most comprehensive and systematic course in student affairs in recent years. It consisted of !ve parts, covering all key aspects of student affairs. It was taught by seven experts and scholars invited from the U.S.. They were Dr. Gregory S. Blimling, vice president for student affairs at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Dr. Gwendolyn Dungy, executive director of NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education; Prof. Robert Reason from Iowa State University; Dr. Larry Roper, vice provost for student affairs at Oregon State University; Prof. Karen Inkelas from the University of Virginia; Dr. John Schuh, distinguished professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State University; and Prof. Marilee Bresciani from San Diego State University. Prof. Haydn Chen, who was then president of Tunghai University, Taiwan; Dr. Zhang Yan, vice president of Peking University; Dr. Jonathan Holloway, professor of history and master of Calhoun College at Yale University; and Dr. Qi Xiaoping, head of the student affairs of!ce at Sun Yat-sen University were also invited to share their experience in student affairs and residential colleges with participants. The !fty-nine participants of the training course came from higher education institutions from Macao, Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China. Most of them are currently working in student-affairs-related positions. Elvo Sou, head of the Student Counselling and Development Section at UM, was one of the participants. He thinks the ten-day course has helped him lay a solid theoretical and practical foundation. Elvo especially identi!es with the concept of “Positive Restlessness” learned from the course. “We face many challenges in organising student activities,” says Elvo. “And if we don’t have ‘Positive Restlessness’, it would be very dif!cult to meet the needs of the students and the developing university. Not only does ‘Positive Restlessness’ apply to our work at Student Affairs, it also applies to our students. We expect them to learn and develop, especially in terms of soft skills such as team spirit and caring about humanity. We tell them our expectations and provide the necessary support to make their learning and development possible. Student Affairs has become a very strategic avenue to cultivate students’ whole person development.” Another participant, Claire Ouyang, is a PhD candidate of the Faculty of Education. She says that the course has helped her to further integrate theories of student development as well as to better understand the role of student affairs in higher education institutions, and more importantly, it has reinforced her determination to pursue a career related to student development after graduation. “In order to help students to establish themselves in society, it’s important for student affairs professionals to help them know more about themselves and achieve well-rounded development. In this process, teachers and student affairs staff should both play a role,” says Ouyang. 22 umagazine | issue 07
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