ACPA Senior Scholars

ACPA Senior Scholars Statement of Action

Aug 12, 2021 | ACPA Senior Scholars

As we continue to observe the pervasive and enduring acts of white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and colonialism—deeply rooted in our nation—we recognize that our campuses are not decoupled from that history; they are microcosms of what is playing out in larger society....

The Oar

May 1, 2020 | ACPA Senior Scholars

If you put your soul against this oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives in us. Excerpt from That Lives In Us by ~Rumi The Oar As this academic year dies, there is life...

A Response to Patricia Daugherty’s Commentary: Situating My Beloved ACPA

May 2, 2018 | ACPA Senior Scholars

Written by Sherry K. Watt “I only preach from my scars, not my wounds.” -Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado As I read Patricia Daugherty’s Essay entitled What I Saw At A College...

Radical Openness, Revolutionary Change: Shifting My Own Thinking

Oct 13, 2016 | ACPA Senior Scholars

Written by Sherry K. Watt “The teacher also has to be a person who is going a little further. I don’t for a minute think that we can be teachers who invite students into radical openness if we’re not willing to be radically open ourselves, if...

How to Start a Revolution

Jun 10, 2016 | ACPA Senior Scholars

Sherry K. Watt Professor, Higher Education and Student Affairs Program University of Iowa ACPA Senior Scholar The Revolution has started. Many are pushing back against our systems of traditional dominant-culture values, White supremacy, gender binary, heterosexism and...

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. It Needs to Be Improvised.

Jun 9, 2016 | ACPA Senior Scholars

Tracy Davis Professor and College Student Personnel Program Coordinator Western Illinois University ACPA Senior Scholar If we want to start a revolution, we need to begin not with technology, but with ourselves, becoming more critical of the media we ingest. One of...