Synergistic Supervision: A Confirmed Key to Retaining Entry-Level Student Affairs Professionals

Entry-level student affairs staff are the profession's future and seasoned professionals must lay a strong supervisory foundation. Supervision has received little attention in the literature even though practitioners spend substantial time supervising. Although an important role, many seasoned professionals are ill prepared for this task. This study identified valuable supervision practices noted as valuable by entry-level professionals and whether those practices included synergistic supervision. Implications using the framework of Bronfenbrenner's ecology model are offered. (Contains 3 tables.)