title: "Our college is changing": women's college student affairs administrators and transgender students.
abstract: Student affairs administrators at contemporary American women's colleges are charged with supporting the personal, intellectual, and relational growth of students. A small but vocal group of students who identify as transgender and who are living as male, genderqueer, or transitioning to live as male, have emerged as a visible subpopulation in highly selective women's colleges. In this qualitative, phenomenological study of the perceptions of student affairs administrators (n = 31), three participant profiles-ambivalent, supporter, and advocate-emerged. Implications for student affairs practice, theory, and the continued transformation of educational environments in support of transgender students are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Merrimack College School of Education, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA. marines@merrimack.edu
authors.forename: Susan B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Marine
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration