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Abstract: 

You might say that I started writing this piece five years ago. It began as notes for a talk delivered at a state level NASPAASJA meeting. I had accepted the charge of advising student affairs professionals on how they could make their programs “distinctive and excellent.” Steeped as I was in the literature on campus cultures, college involvement, and campus as community, I urged my audience to celebrate and preserve their institutions’ unique qualities in an increasingly “franchised” world. Then as now, I worried that my fellow student affairs officers were feeling pressure to jump on best practice bandwagons without considering or being given the opportunity to consider whether those practices were right for their schools and their students.

Keywords: The Uses of the University; Quality of Campus Justice Varies Widely;

Affiliations:  1: University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.