Assessment Expert George Kuh to Deliver Undergraduate Commencement Address

George Kuh, director of the National Survey of Student Engagement, will deliver the keynote address during undergraduate commencement on May 5. Kuh has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College Personnel Association

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Governors State University’s Dual Degree Program Wins National Award

Governors State University’s Dual DegreeProgram (DDP) has been selected to receive the Outstanding Program/Project Award from the Commission for Admissions, Orientation, and First Year Experience, a unit of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA)

Assessment in Practice: A Companion Guide to the ASK Standards

Colleges today are asked to provide greater proof that they are providing quality educational experiences to their students. There has been a growing need for student affairs to provide documentation that their areas also impact learning and student experience. However, many student affairs professionals are overwhelmed by the idea of assessment and are looking for examples of best practices in this area. Several years ago the American College Personnel Association\u27s Commission Director for Assessment and Evaluation developed the Assessment Skills and Knowledge Standards for practitioners. This document provides exampes of these standards in practice

Interdisiplinarity: A Major Issue

Interdisciplinary majors are a growing feature of the undergraduate university (Robles, 1998). Their widespread popularity should be of interest to both professional academics and student affairs professionals. These programs present unique opportunities to foster engagement across difference and to encourage a critically reflective learning approach, a style that the Association of American Colleges and Universities (2002), the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the American College Personnel Association (2004) all advocate. While highlighting the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary programs, these authors, who graduated with bachelor’s degrees in interdisciplinary majors, will argue that these programs provide important opportunities for bridging gaps between the academic and student affairs spheres of university life

Developing a Leadership Consortium

Although the term “leadership” did not appear until approximately the 1850s, leadership can be viewed as an ancient art (Bass, 1990). However, it was not until 1976 that the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Commission IV developed a leadership task force to investigate leadership programs in higher education and clearly defined the differences between leadership development, leadership training, and leadership education (Roberts & Ullom, 1990). The field of leadership progressed over the years by examining various components such as trait theory, behavioral theories, situational theories, and, most recently, leadership identity development theories. Since then, information regarding definitions of leadership, descriptions of leadership theories and models, the impact of leadership development on students, and how leadership styles vary based on ethnicity and sex have become prevalent in the literature

Meeting the Student Learning Imperative: Building Powerful Partnerships Between Academic Libraries and Student Services

Provides an introduction to frameworks for collaboration between student services offices (e.g., Residence Life) and academic libraries based on emerging thinking about the role of student services programs in academic life. Focuses specifically on the significance for collaborative programming of statements about the role of "student affairs educators" issued by professional associations such as the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and on models for initiating and sustaining collaborative projects within the academic library context

Academic advising : description and analysis of types and delivery systems

Research indicates that academic advising can provide valuable interaction among students, faculty, and student affairs professionals. Academic advisors are among the first people seen by students on college campuses. The relationship between an academic advisor and a student can provide a first step in what the American College Personnel Association (ACP A) and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) ( 1998) recommend: Good practice in student affairs forges educational partnerships that advance student learning (p. 3)