Campus ecology continues to provide the student affairs professional with powerful management and leadership tools.  Over the past 25 years the campus ecology paradigm has developed into a significant body of theories, research, practice and literature bridging scholarship from many disciplines, traditions and regions.  This program will present a brief overview of campus ecology, apply campus ecology to contemporary campus situations and present classic and contemporary resources for the practitioner. http://isu.indstate.edu/wbarratt/acpa2000/.

Over the past 25 years the campus ecology paradigm has developed into a significant body of theory, research, practice and literature drawing on scholarship from many disciplines literatures from around the world.  Applying campus ecology to today's events on campus provides the student affairs administrator with powerful tools bridging theories and practices from multiple disciplines. 

Managing the campus environments has emerged as an important guiding principle and  leadership tool on campus and campus ecology provides a central point between theory and practice.  Creating and managing learning environments has always been central to campus ecology.  Campus community, citizenship, diversity and participation in campus life, are all aspects of campus ecology and can often best be managed within its theories and practices.  Traditional student affairs functional areas, from counseling to student life programming, have all benefitted from using campus ecology practices.

Drawing upon the scholarship and practice of many disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, architecture, psychology and urban planning, campus ecology has identified practices that apply to the campus, and placed these practices within a consistent paradigm.