Many colleges and universities across the country are facing hiring freezes and budget constraints due to ongoing disruptions and uncertainty within the higher education landscape. As institutions continue to navigate the ripple effects of declining enrollment, shifting student needs, and economic pressures, the path forward in 2025 remains unclear. What is clear, however, is that the essential work of higher education must continue—even as campuses are being asked to do more with fewer resources than ever before. Amidst these challenges, collaboration and innovation are not just helpful—they are necessary.

presented by the Virginia college personnel association (vCPA) Wednesday, 21 May 21 2025 // 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM In this session, presenters will describe a multi-year partnership cultivated between […]

ACPA is excited to partner with Strengths University for the 2024 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.

This webinar will provide participants with the foundational knowledge of theories that support new professionals from underrepresented groups. It will help participants to identify practices and resources to retain new professionals from underrepresented groups. Throughout this interactive session, participants will engage in both intrapersonal and interpersonal reflection.This webinar is presented by ACPA's Minnesota Chapter (MNCPA).

Approximately 30% of ACPA members currently identify as entry-level professionals with 1-3 years of experience in student affairs work. ACPA created the Phyllis L. Mable Emerging Leaders Institute (previously the New Professionals Institute) to support the development of emerging leaders as they collectively serve thousands of students on a daily basis. This Institute includes several mentoring opportunities and one-on-one interactions with several of today’s leaders in higher education and student affairs as resident faculty and small group facilitators.

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.

Join Erin Fischer and Dr. Michael McRee from the Leadership and Training Studio and The Whitespace Group for a virtual, two-day, hands-on session. (You might know Erin who has hosted Program Design School for 10 years and has graduated nearly a thousand higher education professionals through that experience.)

 Why should you (and your team) go? When we think about facilitation, we know the right facilitator can make all the difference. You know this to be true if you remember the last bad facilitator you had. So, we have created content to help you deliver the best for your audience. First, as your guides, we have scoured through Mike's Ph.D. research and are sharing the top 12 things participants need from facilitators and the results are fascinating! Join us if you want to practice your facilitative skills, increase your audience’s evaluations score on your work, learn how to flex your style to meet your audience, figure out how to make your work more interactive using the 70/30 rule, practice your pace and pitch, and learn where facilitators can often go wrong. Finally, we will teach you how to read your audience when they make a face that stresses you out.