Welcome to the Commission on Administrative (CAL) Web site!  This Commission was one of the original ACPA Commissions established in 1961 and will celebrate 50 years of service this next year!  As Chair, it is my hope that you will choose to sign up on-line and become a part of our Commission.  (You can do this simply by going to www.myacpa.org  and requesting to be part of this team!)

Our nine Commission Guiding Principles include:

• Develop Administrators as educators and leaders
• Emphasize positive mentoring and role modeling
• Provide training and development opportunities
• Employ theory and best practice
• Collaborate with other commissions, and campus constituencies
• Offer feedback to ACPA leadership structure
• Recognize success within the profession and commission
• Partner with academic affairs
• Encourage relevant research

You should know of the very constructive and open dialogue now underway between the ACPA and NASPA leadership.  Both Presidents - Mike Segawa and Tom Jackson - as well as Executive Directors and other leaders are discussing a possible “unification” of these two professional organizations.  For more detail and discussion, go to http://www2.myacpa.org/au/governance/unification.php.  Your thoughts here are most welcome back to the two association presidents as well as to me. (kent.sampson@okstate.edu).    

As ACPA prepares to celebrate its 86th year, our 2010 Vice-Chair for Programs - Matt Brown, Sponsored Programs Chair – Nicole Laprone (and team) are working to identify five programs and one roundtable to be a part of the convention program.  The convention takes place Saturday March 20, 2010 through Wednesday March 24, 2010 and will be held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.  Put it on your planning calendar now!

Election of class of 2013 Directorate Body Members is being led by Scoobie Woods and LeeAnna Lamb.  Commission members will be able to vote online.   Additional
09-10 CAL activities include:

• “Burning Issues” Discussion at Convention
• Mid-Level Managers Research results and planned monograph
• Collaboration with the Assessment and Evaluation Commission to offer a “best practices” toolkit
• Creation of a “Book Club”
• Nominating a “Diamond Honoree” for recognition and encouraging each commission member to make contributions to the ACPA Foundation (www.acpafoundation.org) to honor our nominees. 
• Hosting a convention social for all commission members.
  (new format planned)
• Commission meeting Sunday March 21, 2010 9 am – 4 pm and Committee Business Meeting (2:30-5:00) Tuesday, March 23 (Please come join us!)

Please look over our website, consider our people, programs and leadership team.  I encourage you to join our Commission. 

Feel free to contact me at kent.sampson@okstate.edu or call me at 405-744-5483 if I can respond to specific questions.  Have a great year!

Kent Sampson
  Chair – Commission on Administrative Leadership