A Portrait of Balance: Personal and Professional Balance among Student Affairs Educators

From: College Student Affairs Journal | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Guthrie, Victoria L; Woods, Evelyn; Cusker, Corinne; Gregory, Margaret | Copyright information

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore (a) how student affairs professionals define the concept of balance in the context of balancing their personal and professional lives and (b) how student affairs professionals identified as "balanced" describe their experience of achieving and maintaining balance in their lives.

An increasing number of working individuals have become concerned with the "Holy Grail of the workplace"-the ability to achieve a personal/professio...

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