ACPA
Professional Preparation Commission Newsletter
Spring
2003
Chair: Cathy McHugh Engstrom, Syracuse University, cmengstr@syr.edu
Editor: Maureen E. Wilson, Bowling Green State
University, mewilso@bgnet.bgsu.edu
\Minneapolis
Convention Highlights
\2003 Commission Sponsored Programs
\Convention
Programs on Technology
\Directory
of Graduate Preparation Programs
Professional Preparation Informal Social
- Britt’s Pub
Brit's Pub is located 2 blocks from the
Convention Center in downtown Minneapolis.
The address is 1110 Nicollet Mall and it is located between 11th and 12th
Streets. The commission reception
will be held in The Long Room, which you can find by walking through the bar and
turning left.
Sunday, March 30, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-4:30
p.m.
Directorate
Meeting
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis-Greenway Ballroom
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All are
welcome to come for all or part of the Professional Preparation Commission
meeting. You do not need to be a directorate member to attend. Bring a full cup of coffee. We will have
limited coffee and tea so space out your caffeine needs appropriately.
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President’s Reception (with Senior Scholars) in Presidential Suite.
You should be receiving an invitation from
ACPA.
Monday, March
31, 2003, 6:00-8:00
p.m.
Commission Carnival and Graduate Preparation
Program Fair
Submitted by Patrick Love, New York
University
Congratulations to the newly
elected members of the Professional Preparation Directorate
Body!
Myron L. Pope, Assistant Professor in Adult
and Higher Education, University of Oklahoma
Robert D. Reason, Assistant Professor of
Education, Penn State University
Kristen A. Renn, Assistant Professor and
Coordinator Student Affairs Administration Program, Michigan State
University
Dafina Lazarus Stewart, Assistant Professor, Higher
Education and College Student Personnel, Ohio University
Submitted by Ellen Broido, Bowling Green State University
SueAnn Strom and Ellen Broido invite all new faculty to join them for a New Faculty breakfast at this year's ACPA conference. For the last several years, under the auspices of the Commission on Professional Preparation (CPP), first-year faculty (and that's pretty loosely defined) have gathered for breakfast on Monday morning. This year we'll be gathering at 7:00 a.m. (yes, awfully early, but programs begin at 8) at the hotel restaurant in the Hilton. Sorry, CPP will not be picking up the tab. Reservations aren't necessary; just show up. SueAnn and Ellen will be waiting at the entrance to meet participants. E-mail Ellen with any questions at ebroido@bgnet.bgsu.edu.
Submitted by Carol L. Patitu, Buffalo
State, Sponsored Program Chair
10,000 Ways to Reach Students: Distance Education in
Preparation Programs
Coordinating Presenter: Mark A. Kretovics, Kent State University
Additional Presenters: Stuart Brown, Studentaffairs.com; Will Barratt, Indiana State University
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Things No One Told Me About Getting my Ph.D.
Coordinating Presenter: Shari Ellertson, Iowa State University
Additional Presenters: Ann M. Gansemer-Topf, Iowa State University; Hannah Clayborne, Iowa State University; Randall B. Ludeman, Bemidji State University; Robert Reason, The Pennsylvania State University; Florence A. Hamrick, Iowa State University
Formal Collaboration Between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs on Assessment
Coordinating Presenter: Gary D. Malaney, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Additional Presenters: Joseph B. Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Elizabeth A. Williams, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Marcy Roe, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professional Preparation Programs, Do We
Practice What We Preach?
Coordinating Presenter: Melanie Rago, University of South Florida
Additional Presenter: John V. Moore, University of South Florida
Teaching the Foundation: One Philosophy,
A Thousand Courses
Coordinating Presenter: Merrily S. Dunn, University of Georgia
Additional Presenter: Leanne Lewis Newman, Baylor University
Experiential Techniques in Diversity Education: Two Approaches with One Purpose
(Co-Sponsored with the Standing Committee for Multicultural Affairs)
Coordinating Presenter: Keith E. Edwards, University of Delaware
Additional Presenters: Vivian
A. Yamada, University of Delaware; Karri N. Van Blarcom, University
of Delaware; Genevieve J. Conway, University of Delaware; Stacy L.
Schneider Bingham, University of Delaware
The ACPA Senior Scholars is sponsoring an ACPA convention program to assist masters students, doctoral students and other professionals who are pursuing research. The purpose of this program is to promote a culture of scholarship in student affairs and assist new researchers with coaching on key aspects of that process. Whether you are searching for a topic or stumped with how to turn your dissertation into a publishable article, we invite you to join us in these conversations.
Facilitating Research in the Profession
Program # 227
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center - 200 G
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 2:45 - 4:00 p.m.
Facilitators: ACPA Senior and Emerging Scholars
Participants will have an opportunity to join two different roundtable discussions. Each discussion will be 30 minutes in length.
The table topics will include:
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Submitted by Fiona MacKinnon, Bowling Green State
University
As a special feature of this
year's convention we invite all attendees to join in a common reading experience
of Parker Palmer's book, Let your life speak: Listening for the voice of
vocation. To further the reflection and the fellowship we have launched our
own on-site book club by creating Conversation Corners throughout the
convention. We extend the invitation to all attendees to share with others the
ideas, the insights, and the opinions that stimulated the search for individual
truth and guidance after reading Let your life speak.
In the
day-to-day whirl of student affairs it is rare to have the opportunity to take
time out for oneself. It is rare to have the chance to read a book like Let
your life speak that validates the inner voice and says, "I must listen to
my heart and my soul if I am to be who I really want and need to be." So, the
Conversation Corners will, in essence, be about creating spaces in which we can
share, in a safe way and in a safe place, what we have read and heard. It is
about raising up our ability to hear our OWN voices, rather than finding meaning
based on what others' believe. The Conversation Corners will be places where we
can "seek to understand" how the reading affected others--as a way to find
meaning for the self. Most certainly, the Conversation Corners will not be
places to judge, to decide, or to come to any kind of consensus.
With our focus on spirituality
in student affairs and the academy this is a good time to invite our students to
join with us as we reflect on Parker Palmer's insightful notion of vocation and
its special meaning to us as individuals. Join us at the convention for this
unique, common reading experience.
Submitted by Will Barratt, Indiana State University
Will recommends three programs that will serve students well and might help faculty. They are based on research and practice with students at ISU.
Pre-Convention Workshop 05: Developing
Effective Student Affairs Websites
Saturday, March 29, 2003
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Minneapolis Convention Center, 200 A
This workshop will guide participants through the web site development or re-development process. Designed for everyone involved with the student affairs web site on campus, from entry level professional to senior management, from beginner through advanced designer, the workshop is based on experience evaluating, designing and teaching about student affairs web sites. Participants will be using a web site development workbook to guide them toward developing an integrated web site plan. http://wbarratt.indstate.edu/desaws
Technology I: High Tech/High Touch?
Evaluating Student Affairs Web Presence
Monday, March 31, 2003
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Minneapolis Convention Center, 103 B
Student Affairs web pages vary tremendously in every respect. The program presenters developed an evaluation tool for student affairs web presence examining the four dimensions of web site Content, Quality, Relationships, and Student Learning and Development. This evaluation tool was applied to 10 similar institutions and the results will be reported in this presentation. Participants will learn about the elements of effective, and ineffective, Student Affairs web sites. http://wbarratt.indstate.edu/sawp/
Technology II: Integrating On-Line and
Interpersonal Residence Hall Communities
Monday, March 31, 2003
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Minneapolis Convention Center, 103 B
Using existing campus software and servers, on-line communities were developed as an experimental one-year program to integrate on-line and the residential communities in a first year hall. With the mission of enhancing interpersonal interaction, web pages, chat rooms, discussion boards and more have been used to enhance interpersonal community building. Participants will learn how staff developed the virtual communities and how students used these communities during this academic year. http://blumberghall.indstate.edu/ and http://wbarratt.indstate.edu/e-res
Submitted by Michael Ignelzi, Slippery Rock University and Susan R. Jones, Ohio State University
Each year, the Professional Preparation Commission
acknowledges the outstanding scholarship of graduate students in higher
education and student affairs programs through the presentation of research and
writing awards. We are pleased to
announce this year’s winners. Recipients will be recognized at the Commission
social on Saturday, March 29, 2003,
5:00-7:00
p.m. at Britt’s Pub at 1110 Nicollet Mall in
Minneapolis.
BURNS B. CROOKSTON DOCTORAL
AWARD
Reynol Junco, Penn State
University
"Assessing an online training program's ability to change the attitudes of faculty and student affairs staff towards students with disabilities"
GERALD
SADDLEMIRE MASTERS RESEARCH AWARD
Emily B. Mann, University of Rhode Island
"Latino college students' experiences at a predominantly white institution"
ROBERTA CHRISTIE
AWARD
Sara Bleiberg, New York University,
"A case for mixed-sex university housing policies"
NEVITT
SANFORD RESEARCH AWARD
Elisa S. Abes, Ohio State University
"The dynamics of multiple dimensions of identity for lesbian college students"
Catherine A. Buyarski, University of Minnesota,
A study will be conducted of an organizational merger of academic and student affairs divisions at a four-year public institution.
Submitted by Deb Liddell, University of Iowa
The Commission Research Grants Committee is pleased to announce a $700 grant to a University of Georgia research team to study the job expectations of recent doctoral graduates. The team, comprised of Merrily Dunn, Diane Cooper, and Mark Dadonna, will study several aspects of expectations including perceptions of career development, gains in status, positions, salary, and skill attainment. They will also pose questions to recent graduates regarding their perceived benefits from doctoral study, and suggestions on curricula.
Thanks to those who reviewed proposals. That team included Will Barratt, Raechele Pope, Flo Hamrick, and Deb Liddell.
Submitted by Deb Liddell, University of Iowa
Graduate program faculty members are reminded that that at our 2002 Professional Preparation Commission meeting, we passed a resolution supporting the Council of Graduate Schools policy (endorsed by over 350 institutions) stating that graduate students are under no obligation to respond to offers of financial support, including assistantships, prior to April 15 each year.
To what does this apply?
This obligates us, as graduate faculty and program directors, to ensure that neither current nor prospective students are pressured to accept offers of scholarships, fellowships, traineeships, and assistantships prior to our agreed-upon common date of April 15. It is our duty as faculty and program directors, to inform on-campus employers of this policy, and to help them act ethically and abide by this April 15 deadline.
What if a student wants to
commit earlier than April 15?
Offers of financial support may be made at
anytime, along with encouragement to respond prior to April 15. However,
we cannot insist upon a response to the offer until April 15. If a student is
ready to commit to an offer, he or she may do so at any
time.
We’ve always done it our own way. Why is
this a problem?
For several years, reports have emerged that applicants
to some graduate programs are pressured to accept offers of admission and/or
offers of assistantship prior to interviews at other campuses. In some cases,
prospective students are being told that they must make a decision on an
assistantship offer within 24 hours. In other cases, deliberation time is
granted, but it is very early (February) in the admissions
season.
Why should we care about this? We don’t have a common standard on other issues of admissions.
The most compelling reason to care about this is that it models bad practice for aspiring professionals entering the field. We should not be in a race for students. We should want for them no less than we would want for the new professional who is about to launch a career from our programs: that they will take their time, collect the information they need about their fit to their next institution, visit the campuses they are interested in, and get a sense of their future classmates and mentors.
The other reason we should care is that, from an ethical perspective, it compromises the ability to make informed choices and erodes the autonomy of students. This seems, then, a potential breach of ethical practice.
Finally, it violates the agreement endorsed by over 350 institutions in conjunction with the Council of Graduate Schools (see attached for list or visit http://www.cgsnet.org/PublicationsPolicyRes/resolutions.htm#resolution1 to read the resolution), that states that students are under no obligation to respond to offers of financial support including assistantships prior to April 15.
For those reasons, we seek support
and enforcement of this resolution.
We further hope to educate our professional community of preparation
faculty, assistantship employers, and prospective students about our collective
rights and responsibilities in the admissions process.
Submitted by Michael Coomes and
Janice Gerda, Bowling Green State University
Mid-spring is decision time for graduate students planning to begin programs in the summer and fall of 2003. One of their best (and most accessible) tools for comparison is the Directory of Graduate Programs Preparing Student Affairs Professionals, so you might want to consider updating your program information. Some categories of information change frequently (tuition and fees, student demographics, faculty lists) and prospective students will notice and appreciate updated information. Don't get caught showing 1998-99 demographics. Come on into the 21st century! Be on-line and up-to-date!
If you are already listed in the directory, your updates are FREE. Information submitted by January 31 is guaranteed to be on-line by the ACPA conference, but we will make efforts to update pages as soon as we can after receiving revisions. Please send updated information to webmaster Janice Gerda, gerdaj@bgnet.bgsu.edu.
If your program is not currently listed in the Directory, please consider adding it. The cost is $50 for unlimited updates. Please e-mail Michael Coomes at mcoomes@bgnet.bgsu.edu. He will reply by e-mail and attach a template or questionnaire to be completed and returned electronically. After completing and forwarding the template, the page will be placed on-line with limited access for review before being linked to the rest of the Directory. The institution requesting inclusion in this directory will need to also fax or mail a hard copy of the web page with a check for $50.00 (payable to ACPA). Our receipt of the hard copy will indicate your final approval of the webpage content.
Questions or concerns about this procedure should be directed to Michael Coomes at the above e-mail address, or by calling 419-372-7157.
Submitted by Ellen Broido, Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University's College Student Personnel
and Higher Education Administration programs, along with the Bowling Green
Student Development Association (BGSDA) and the Bowling Green Higher Education
Administration Doctoral Students organization (BG-HEADS), is pleased to host the
2003 meeting of the Midwest Meeting of Graduate Students in Student Personnel
(MMOGSISP). We wish to invite all
mid-western (very loosely defined as "reasonable driving distance from Bowling
Green, Ohio") graduate students in student personnel and preparation-program
faculty to attend the conference, held on the campus of BGSU, October 15-17,
2003. We promise good ideas, good company, and good humor.
This year, in addition to the usual tracks for masters
students and preparation-program faculty, we will offer an third track for
doctoral students, both those in college student personnel programs and those in
higher education administration or counselor education/counseling psychology
programs who have a focus in college student development and administration.
This track will overlap partially with the faculty track for those doctoral
students considering faculty careers.
A call for programs as well as information regarding registration, hotels, and keynote speakers will follow later this spring. For further information, contact Ellen Broido at ebroido@bgnet.bgsu.edu.
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The following people were selected as Emerging Scholars
by ACPA: Katie Branch, University of
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Kathleen
Manning, Associate Professor
at the University of Vermont, is spending the spring 2003 semester teaching at
Beijing Normal University in China.
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In January, Robert Reason joined the Penn State
University faculty as an Assistant Professor of Education in the Department of
Higher Education, He is also co-coordinator of the College Student Affairs
program (and that’s great news to his new colleague Daniel
Salter).
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At Ohio State University,
Susan Jones was surprised during class by OSU’s president and presented
with the Distinguished Teaching Award. As a result of that award, she was part
of the half time show for that championship football team of theirs. (Go
Bucks!)
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Anna Ortiz has a new job as Associate Professor
(with tenure) of Student Development in Higher Education at California State
University, Long Beach. She can now be reached at aortiz6@csulb.edu.
\ Tracy Davis (Western Illinois) and Deb Liddell (University of Iowa) are the recipients of the Commission on Assessment's annual award for outstanding journal article on assessment for "Getting Inside The House: The Effectiveness Of A Rape Prevention Program For College Fraternity Men." It appeared in the Jan/Feb 2002 issue of Journal of College Student Development.
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Updated: March 18, 2003