Preparing for Success at University

Preparing for Success at
University

This reflective essay is going to examine the understanding and skills, that I have
developed by working as an administrator in University. To explore experience and number of
areas which help me in developing the necessary skills, Driscoll's model is used. Afterwards, how
working with other professionals has supported me in improving performance also demonstrated.
Application of Driscoll's model -
Purpose
The main role of an administrator in university is to manage the student activities, get a
quick response on providing details about degree programs to students and their peer ones,
manage public relation initiatives and more (Babatunde and El-Gohary, 2018). Hereby, I have
worked as a Dean of Students, where main role is to coordinate with academic and non-academic
campus programs. It includes student services like provide counselling, residential, housing and
other programs. To perform all these duties, I have analysed that a person needs to give priority
for development of an effective communication first. This would help in getting effective
support of other professionals who are associated with same field, for performing such
responsibilities.
Event/ Scenario
As I have such an ability of effective communication, that enables me to better supervise
the campus programs, as well as serve a liaison between other administrators and student council.
But issues that I have faced during this job is primarily with encouragement of academic success
and monitor the progress of students that are struggling in classes. This would impact highly on
my performance, while handling such non-academic issues. Along with this, having a team that
consists professionals and other staff of different background with experience and knowledge
gap, also creates issues for me in performing the assigned duties of administration.
So what (my feelings about experience)
I have learned that to handle problems related with encouragement of students for
academic issues and provide counselling to them to share problems, that arise learning issues for
them, communication should be effective. Therefore, to handle these problems, I have firstly
worked on maintaining good relations with students, to earn their loyalty. For this purpose, I have
focused more on developing effective team of other professionals, so that cooperation of them
can help in performing such responsibilities. Hereby, it has been analysed by me that if people
are treated with respect and dignity then it will help in maintaining good relationship with them.
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