Andrea D. Domingue
2022-2023

Eighty-third ACPA President

Dr. Andrea D. Domingue served as the eight-third president (2022-2023) of ACPA-College Student Educators International. Her goals during her presidency were centered around advancing multi-year leadership conversations towards association governance transformation, addressing higher education employment recruitment and retention challenges influenced by multiple pandemics, and fostering community care as ACPA and higher education campus return to in-person engagements.

Currently serving as the inaugural Chief Strategy for Student Life at Davidson College, she received her Ed.D. in Student Development with a concentration in Social Justice Education (2014) and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies (2013) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a M.A. in Higher Education Administration (2005) from New York University and a B.A. in Sociology and Mathematics (2003) from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Domingue has worked in a variety of student affairs functional areas such as residence life and multiple identity-based centers across large and small colleges. A scholar-practitioner, she currently teaches graduate courses on critical pedagogy and college student development at University of Wisconsin La Crosse, published the co-edited book “Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons” through SUNY Press and served as a co-author for ACPA’s “A Bold Vision Forward: A Framework for the Strategic Imperative for Racial Justice and Decolonization.”

Dr. Domingue’s introduction to ACPA was through faculty encouragement as a graduate student at New York University, attending her first annual convention in 2004 located in Philadelphia,PA. Her association leadership began in 2008 with her involvement as a directorate member for the Commission for Social Justice Education. For nine years she held a variety of positions within this entity group including Commission Chair from 2014-2017. Demonstrating strong leadership and relationship building skills, Dr. Domingue was elected to serve on ACPA’s Governing Board twice: first as Assembly Coordinator for Commissions on ACPA’s Governing Board from 2017-2020 and second as ACPA’s eighty-third president.

As ACPA President, Dr. Domingue focused on three core initiatives to advance the field of higher education and the professionals that called ACPA home. Through her work, she was mindful in the acceleration of transforming the association’s leadership governance to foster more pathways for volunteer leadership that members can integrate alongside their campus work. As president, she also identified the urgency of providing members with resources in response to shifts on higher education employment from COVID-19 and emerging sociopolitical dynamics. Dr. Domingue launched a presidential task force that ultimately authored the 21^st Century Employment in Higher Education Task Force Report. This document offered a framework and tangible action step suggestions to not only recruit and retain professionals but implement changes to interrupt systemic inequities within workplace culture and practices. Recognizing that emotional, mental and physical toll across higher education campuses due to changes, Dr. Domingue collaborated with then ASHE President Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles to center healing and community care. This symposium brought together graduate students, faculty and staff, providing 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.

As a Past-President, Dr. Domingue reflects on the many experiences this position has taught her, specifically how ACPA provided nourishment to her in the unpredictable and unprecedented times in higher education. She viewed ACPA has the best environment to explore leadership as it provides a great network of collaborative leaders and opportunities to have an immediate impact on the field. She thanks her peers and colleagues within ACPA for inspiring her to pursue the role of President.