ABSTRACT
The career track in student affairs administration is fairly standard: a master’s degree and entry-level job followed by progressively more advanced positions leading to the directorship of a functional area, then into a deanship or vice presidency. There are substantial numbers of student affairs professionals who break the pattern to explore alternative careers or to continue their careers in alternative ways. As institutional insiders, women who leave student affairs positions for other jobs in higher education may draw, for example, on strengths in human relations, publicity, counseling, programming, or assessment. Options for leaving day-to-day student affairs work but remaining in the academy increase for those professionals holding a doctoral degree.
