Events

2023 Supervisor Strengths Institute

Online

ACPA is excited to partner with Strengths University for the 2023 Supervisor Strengths Institute! Learn to become a more effective supervisor and show up authentically in your leadership role. You'll gain skills around how to feel balanced, aligned, and able to genuinely enjoy your work while having the energy to do your best work. Strengths University understands the challenges, the frustrations, and the joys of leading a team. We want to help you manage the stress and chaos, so you can better lead your team, support your students, and have more balance in your life.

2023 ACPA/ASHE Presidential Symposium

Online

The 2022 ACPA-ASHE Presidential Symposium will provide attendees with an understanding of how joy is cultivated, why joy is an act of resistance and healing, and how joy can be fostered through communities of care. In this space, our hope is to bring together graduate students, faculty members, student affairs staff members, and senior student affairs leaders to reimagine our work to center care and community.

Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference

University of Vermont

ACPA is a proud sponsor of the 2023 Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference The University of Vermont annually presents one of the nation’s premiere conferences.  This year the conference will be held on October 16 – 18, 2023, and will focus on the diverse legal issues impacting all aspects of higher education.  The program will […]

SLCoP: 2023-2024 Senior Level Support Network

Online

The ACPA Senior-Level Community of Practice (SLCoP) coordinates and hosts the Senior-Level Support Network (SLSN). These monthly conversations with colleagues in leadership roles offer a space to discuss concerns and issues across institutional size, type, and location. The low-key conversations are broadly themed with opportunity for additional topics, relationship building, and unique or shared questions. […]

2023 Institute on the Curricular Approach™

Hilton Long Beach 701 W Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA

Join student affairs and higher education colleagues on a journey toward implementing a curricular approach on your campus at the Institute on the Curricular Approach (ICA)! This learning experience is dynamic and valuable, as you will have access to concrete examples of how institutions with similar institutional values have developed and implemented their Curricular Approach in residence life, student leadership, or student conduct. Showcase Institutions will share how they used the 10 Essential Elements, their lessons learned, and implementation successes. This event is a straight-forward way to obtain clear direction from higher education and student affairs professionals who have done the work.

SLCoP Webinar: Implementing A Professional Fellowship Program: Learning Pathways for Career Progression

Online

The presenters will highlight how, as mid-level managers, they built and implemented a professional fellowship program for student affairs and student service professionals on their campus to engage in intentional cross-departmental learning pathways that fostered career progression and competency advancement. Utilizing a mixture of content sharing and group discussion, the presenters will create a space […]

Institute for Aspiring SSAOs™

Washington, DC

ACPA is proud to offer this exciting professional development event for those who are considering a Senior Student Affairs Officer (SSAO) role as a future career goal. The ACPA Institute for Aspiring SSAOs: Exploring Underrepresented Identities and Career Paths will explore ways in which our diverse backgrounds (such as gender identity and presentation, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and physical/cognitive qualities) impact our move to and experience within an SSAO role. A faculty team of seasoned and diverse SSAOs from various types of institutions will lead participants in an introspective and intimate journey.

Program Design School

Online

Join The Leadership and Training Studio and Erin Fischer for a two-day, hands-on, engaging and entertaining seminar. Erin will share how she wrote 90 programs in four and a half years and still has more ideas. (As a matter of fact, she has written eight new courses in three months.) You will learn how to write participant guides, facilitator guides, identify 40 learning methods and understand why you can’t write learning objectives until the end of your course! By the end of the two days, you will have a template for writing consistently and engaging material with ease. We are excited to continue to offer this outstanding professional development opportunity in a live virtual format using Zoom Video Conferencing.

SLCoP Webinar: Centering Curiosity and Humanity in Assessment: The Inquiry-based Praxis Model

Online

A comprehensive system of assessment is not a checklist of one-off assessment activities. It is its own way of thinking about our work, of making sense of our peoples' experiences and perceptions, and continuously improving our practices, across all roles and functional areas. In this session, we will engage in a conceptual - yet interactive […]

SLCoP: 2023-2024 Senior Level Support Network

Online

The ACPA Senior-Level Community of Practice (SLCoP) coordinates and hosts the Senior-Level Support Network (SLSN). These monthly conversations with colleagues in leadership roles offer a space to discuss concerns and issues across institutional size, type, and location. The low-key conversations are broadly themed with opportunity for additional topics, relationship building, and unique or shared questions. […]

SLCoP: 2023-2024 Senior Level Support Network

Online

The ACPA Senior-Level Community of Practice (SLCoP) coordinates and hosts the Senior-Level Support Network (SLSN). These monthly conversations with colleagues in leadership roles offer a space to discuss concerns and issues across institutional size, type, and location. The low-key conversations are broadly themed with opportunity for additional topics, relationship building, and unique or shared questions. […]

2024 Donna M. Bourassa Mid-Level Management Institute

Online

Going into its 25th year, the Donna M. Bourassa Mid-Level Management Institute is an ACPA educational program for those who have been in the student affairs field for five or more years or are a departmental director. The Institute guides those desiring to grow their authentic leadership, strengthen their capacities and understand self and organizational dynamics in order to lead well.