Services

Customized services to meet your institution's unique needs.

NASPA stresses only the highest and consistent quality in process and outcomes for each service offering. All services are focused on strengthening your student affairs or services division, and are not considered a ranking, rating, scoring, or form of accreditation.

Grounded in the NASPA Mission
Established in NASPA’s mission as the principal source of leadership and professional development for student affairs.

Focused on the Whole
Encompasses the entire student affairs divisional landscape within the larger organization and culture.

Designed in Partnership with Student Affairs Executives
Services and elements designed and informed directly by presidential and VPSA perspectives.

Guided by Senior-Level Reviewers
Reviewers act as trusted partners and bring extensive, senior-level and subject matter expertise.

  • Professional Development

    Activities
    Nine 60-minute webinars focused on topics spanning across NASPA Advisory Services’ signature framework, PRACTICES, and its foundational elements for student affairs divisions.

    Outcomes
    A flexible, effective way to provide a comprehensive professional development series to your staff.

    All registrants will have access to webinars for one year.

  • Guided Self-Assessments

    Activities

    PRACTICES: Analysis of nine foundational elements of student affairs

    32 NCSI: Analysis of a full range of institutional safety and security facilities, policies, and procedures

    Outcomes
    Assessment reports:
    Reports include dashboard summaries of topics, and aggregated quantitative self-assessment data. These reports are not a ranking of all institutions results or benchmarked against other institutions. You will also receive a supporting document that links relevant questions to your institution’s regional accreditor standards.

  • Comprehensive Review

    Activities
    Online self-assessments of nine foundational elements of student affairs/student services

    Expert advising: Review and analysis of assessment report

    Review of student affairs data and reports

    Remote interviews and/or campus visit 

    Outcomes
    Assessment reports:
    Report of findings, analysis, and recommendations

    Reviewer remote presentation and discussion of report

32 NCSI

A landmark program offered through a partnership between NASPA and the VTV Family Outreach Foundation that empowers college and university campus communities to make more informed decisions about campus safety. Developed by a team of leading experts, 32 NCSI is a robust self-assessment tool that colleges and universities can use to conduct an objective analysis of a full range of institutional safety and security facilities, policies, and procedures. Once the self-assessment is complete, NASPA Advisory Services compiles your results and prepares comprehensive reports that highlight areas of strength and areas for further review based on your aggregated self-assessment responses.

PRACTICES Self-assessment

The PRACTICES Self-Assessment offers divisions an affordable, strategic tool to evaluate performance across nine critical areas within Student Affairs. The self-assessment consists of nine areas. These elements are policy, resources, academics, compliance, technology, inclusion, community, evidence, and students. The self-assessment focuses separately on each element. NASPA staff review the PRACTICES framework in greater detail during the self-paced Orientation modules, create a customized web portal, and, with the guidance of your division, assign student affairs staff to specific modules.

Institutions will receive PRACTICES reports for each module completed that provide aggregated self-assessment data in an easy-to-read format and an at-a-glance dashboard that highlights potential areas of strength and further review. Participant institutions will also get access to two webinars from the PRACTICES Professional Development Series. This service is offered as a standalone service or as part of our spring, summer, or fall cycle. Contact us if you are interested in participating in PRACTICES as a standalone service. Registration for the fall 2025 cycle will open on August 11.

  • Early Registration Deadline: September 12 ($850 member institution/$1,000 non-member institution)

  • Regular Registration Deadline: September 19 ($975 member institution/$1,125 non-member institution)

  • Late Registration Deadline: October 3 ($1,050 member institution/$1,200 non-member institution)

PRACTICES PLUS | Self-assessment Advisory Support

This service incorporates both the PRACTICES self-assessment and an external, remote advisor to analyze a division's self-assessment results. NASPA Advisory Services will work with each institution to determine the areas of emphasis to explore. This will include determining the areas for further discussion and scheduling three video conferences with the participating institution’s student affairs leader or leadership team. The NASPA Advisory Services advisor and staff will facilitate each video conference discussion to explore a specific, predetermined area of emphasis. Upon the conclusion of the video conference discussions, NASPA Advisory Services will provide a brief summary report with recommendations and areas for future consideration. The price of this service is $3,500 for NASPA member institutions and $4,000 for NASPA non-member institutions.

Comprehensive Reviews

NASPA Advisory Services provides full division-level external review services, including remote reviews, that can include the self-assessment process. We also conduct cluster-level (e.g., multiple units that have the same reporting line, such as a higher-level review of all the units under the purview of a dean/AVP for student engagement). We work with the institution to determine the scope of the project and primary goals and develop a proposal to fit those needs. The review includes a document and data review. Whether in-person or remote, we work with the division to determine an appropriate interview schedule that includes division staff, students, and key partners outside the division (faculty, alumni, etc.). The entirety of this process is guided by NASPA and led by the support of our fantastic senior-level reviewers. NASPA Advisory Services considers it essential that we match reviewers with the institutions we are reviewing, and we work with you to determine what criteria (i.e., experience at a four-year, public, urban institution) is most important in the identification of potential reviewers. For a standard division-level review, the final review team is composed of two senior-level student affairs officers from the reviewer pool and one NASPA professional staff member. The outcome of a division-level review is a comprehensive report of findings, analysis, and recommendations (as well as the PRACTICES self-assessment reports, if applicable). Pricing is project-dependent with key factors being final scope, inclusion of the self-assessment (PRACTICES), and modality (on-site versus remote). The duration of a project from contract to deliverable is typically between four and five months depending on the final scope, timing of project, and availability of reviewers.

Program Review Collaborative

Powered by NASPA Advisory Services, the Program Review Collaborative leverages the association power of ACUHO-I, ACUI, NASPA and NIRSA, and the talent and subject matter expertise of our respective members to provide you with department/program-level external review services.

We work with the institution to determine the scope of the project and primary goals and develop a proposal to fit those needs. The review can include a self-study for the department/program that is guided by NAPSA staff. Each review includes a document and data review. Whether in-person or remote, we work with the department/program to determine an appropriate interview schedule that includes staff, students, and key partners (division staff, faculty, community partners, etc.). The standard Program Review Collaborative external review team is composed of one subject matter expert vetted by the Collaborative and one NASPA professional staff member. We match reviewers with the institutions we are reviewing, and we work with you to determine what criteria (i.e., experience at a four-year, public, urban institution) is most important in the identification of potential reviewers

The outcome of a departmental/program review is a comprehensive report of findings, analysis, and recommendations. Pricing is project-dependent with key factors being final scope, review team size, and modality (on-site versus remote). The duration of a project from contract to deliverable is typically between four and five months depending on the final scope, timing of project, and availability of reviewers.