ACPA - Commission for Professional Preparation

Candidate Biographies

Name: John P. Dugan
Title: Assistant Professor, Higher Education
Institution: Loyola University Chicago
Full-time faculty in a higher education /student affairs graduate program

1. Please describe your educational and professional background, including your experience working in graduate preparation
programs.
I currently serve as a tenure-track, assistant professor in the Higher Education graduate program at Loyola University Chicago. I received both my graduate degrees from the College Student Personnel program at the University of Maryland and worked professionally at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. In my current role I teach courses on Multiculturalism for Social Justice, Student Development Theory, and Leadership in Higher Education. My research focuses on the influences of higher education on the development of socially responsible leadership and other developmental outcomes associated with college.

2. Please describe any previous involvement in the ACPA Professional Preparation Commission.
During the past year I served on a one-year appointment to the Commission for Professional Preparation. My involvement included attendance at meetings at the conference as well as serving as a program reviewer for commission sponsored programs for the 2010 conference.

3. Please describe any previous involvement in ACPA and other professional organizations.
I have been an active member of ACPA for the past 10 years and was previously on the directorate for the Commission for Student Involvement (CSI). I served a term as the Vice-Chair for Publications and overhauled the CSI publication Interchange in terms of design and to include a peer feedback process. I have also served as a program reviewer for conferences and on several awards selection committees for ACPA. I am also active in other professional organizations including International Leadership Association, Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs.

4. Why do you wish to serve on the Professional Preparation Commission?
I would be honored to extend my one-year appointment into a full-term if elected. Involvement in the commission provides an excellent opportunity for personal and professional development while also contributing to the goals and mission of ACPA as an organization. As a full-time faculty member, I would appreciate the opportunity to contribute to critical resources that the commission offers. I also believe that I could lend an important voice to conversations and represent well both the needs of junior faculty and the interests of those of working in professional preparation programs like the one at my institution.

5. Do you have other major involvements in ACPA or other associations that will prevent your participation in the annual directorate meeting on Sunday at convention?
No. I would be free and able to participate fully.

Name: John D. Foubert
Title: Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, College Student Development
Institution: Oklahoma State University
Full-time faculty in a higher education /student affairs graduate program

1. Please describe your educational and professional background, including your experience working in graduate preparation
programs.
I earned my B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the College of William and Mary, my master’s in Psychology from the University of Richmond, and my Ph.D. in College Student Personnel Administration from the University of Maryland, College Park. I have served in several student affairs administrative positions at the University of Richmond, the University of Maryland, and the University of Virginia. I began my faculty career as an Assistant, then Associate Professor of Higher Education at the College of William and Mary, where I was responsible for teaching a wide array of student affairs and higher education courses. After receiving tenure I began a new adventure coordinating the student affairs master’s program at Oklahoma State University; a position I have held since January of 2009. In just a few short months my efforts have boosted enrollment by 55% and we have set a course for more national prominence.

2. Please describe any previous involvement in the ACPA Professional Preparation Commission.
I have been a member of the ACPA Preparation Commission for many years, though not on the directorate. Other obligations have kept me from attending meetings as a non-member. If elected I will attend every meeting. I have maintained active participation in online dialogues and have worked to promote a strong faculty voice in issues before ACPA by linking faculty through a faculty group on Facebook.

3. Please describe any previous involvement in ACPA and other professional organizations.
Since 1992 I have attended either the ACPA or NASPA every year but two. In that time I have made 28 presentations at ACPA and NASPA conferences, with far more of my nearly 100 presentations at conferences made for organizations such as ACUHO-I, AFA, MACUHO, and the International Conference on Sexual Assault in our Schools. I served ACPA as an emerging scholar from 2001-2003, after having been previously selected as part of the original group of emerging scholars. Many of my 27 publications have been in ACPA’s Journal of College Student Development (5), the NASPA Journal (5), and 2 were in About Campus. I have served as an ad hoc reviewer for ACPA’s Journal of College Student Development and am currently serving on the editorial board for NASPA’s Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice.

4. Why do you wish to serve on the Professional Preparation Commission?
I wish to serve on the Professional Preparation Commission so that I can begin to become more deeply involved in ACPA through service to my faculty colleagues and the students we educate every day. This is a critical time in our history when our two primary professional organizations are moving toward a merger and accreditation issues are affecting many of us. It is also a time when a more unified voice from faculty is needed on these issues. I believe that just as faculty play a critical role in writing, interpreting, and training our field in the area of theory, research and applying theory and research to practice, we should help guide the field in its important struggles toward merging our associations and facing the challenges that will define our field for years to come.

I believe that I can add a perspective to the professional preparation commission that comes from one who is willing to speak up about important issues that are before us and also look for creative solutions about how we can move forward together in ways the benefit all of us. I also believe that we can continue to use technology to even greater levels to promote collaborative exchanges of ideas, scholarship, and thoughts on moving ACPA forward in the future. Particularly for junior faculty, it would be greatly helpful if the Professional Preparation Committee was instrumental in being a place that helped to set up research teams among faculty with common interests so that faculty to know who else is interested in conducting research together. Our potential to pursue common objectives on many levels is unbounded!

5. Do you have other major involvements in ACPA or other associations that will prevent your participation in the annual directorate meeting on Sunday at convention?
No.

Name: Aaron W. Hughey
Title: Professor & Student Affairs Program Coordinator
Institution: Western Kentucky University
Full-time faculty in a higher education /student affairs graduate program

1. Please describe your educational and professional background, including your experience working in graduate preparation
programs.
I have an EdD in Educational Administration (Higher Education emphasis) from Northern Illinois University (’88). I have an EdS in Student Personnel Services from Western Kentucky University (’83). I have taught graduate courses associated within the Student Affairs program (and the previous program) since Spring Semester 1988. During 1991 – 1993, I coordinated the move from a 30-hour, non-standards based program in Student Personnel Services to a 48-hour, CACREP-based (1994 standards) program in Student Affairs. I served as coordinator of that program until 2004, when I became department head of Counseling and Student Affairs at WKU. I returned to the faculty (and to my coordinator role) in August of 2008. I currently teach graduate courses in Student Affairs and Counseling, serve as the advisor for most of our Student Affairs majors, and serve as the faculty supervisor for our Student Affairs Practicum and Internship students. I helped develop our new 15-hour online graduate certificate program in International Student Services and I also continue to revise and update the curriculum as our assessment initiatives mandate.

2. Please describe any previous involvement in the ACPA Professional Preparation Commission.
I have served on the ACPA Professional Preparation Committee for several years.

3. Please describe any previous involvement in ACPA and other professional organizations.
I have been active in ACPA, the Southern Association for College Student Affairs (SACSA), the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Kentucky Counseling Association (KCA), and the College Personnel Association of Kentucky (CPAK); I served as a member of the Executive Council for CPAK for three years. I presented or co-presented at ACPA, SACSA, KCA and CPAK for the last several years.

4. Why do you wish to serve on the Professional Preparation Commission?
I am very interested in exploring various strategies for enhancing the effectiveness of our graduate preparation programs, particularly through creative use of the CAS standards. During Spring 2008, the master’s degree program at WKU was determined to be CAS-compliant through a strictly voluntary process that included an internal self-study and an onsite examination by an external review team. I believe that it is vital that our profession continue to develop, implement and refine mechanisms for empirically demonstrating that what we do makes a substantive difference in the lives of students. During 2009, for example, we added a new required course to our curriculum, Assessment and Accountability in Student Affairs (CNS 610). I believe it is imperative that our graduates develop proficiency in the areas of program design and evaluation. Aside from strengthening their knowledge and skills in this critical dimension, it also helps them gain greater credibility when interacting with other constituencies on campus. Lastly, I would like to continue to work on redefining the role of standardized tests such as the GRE in our graduate admissions processes. My sense is that these tests do have their place in determining who we should admit to our graduate preparation programs, but they can be overused. There are several viable means of determining who is qualified to enter our professional preparation programs. The graduate admissions process needs to be viewed in a more holistic framework that takes into account characteristics and potentialities that are often overlooked or underemphasized when we rely too heavily/exclusively on standardized tests.

5. Do you have other major involvements in ACPA or other associations that will prevent your participation in the annual directorate meeting on Sunday at convention?
I am available to participate in the directorate meeting on Sunday at the convention.

Name: Dawn R. Johnson
Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Institution: Syracuse University
Full-time faculty in a higher education /student affairs graduate program

1. Please describe your educational and professional background, including your experience working in graduate preparation
programs.
I have my Ph.D. in college student personnel administration from the University of Maryland, my M.Ed. in student personnel administration from Springfield College, and my B.A. in anthropology from Bowdoin College. I am in my third year as a full-time faculty member in the Higher Education program at Syracuse University. I spent 12 years in student affairs practice, including working as a director of minority student affairs at a science and engineering university and an associate director of admissions. I also worked as an academic advisor for computer science majors and in a living-learning program for undergraduate students interested in education careers. As a doctoral student, I was a teaching assistant for two years and a co-instructor for two years in the college student personnel program for master’s students, and taught undergraduate courses on diversity and social justice issues.

2. Please describe any previous involvement in the ACPA Professional Preparation Commission.
Currently I am serving a one-year term on the Professional Preparation Commission Directorate as a replacement for a member who resigned the position. I have served the Commission as a reviewer for the Research and Writing Awards committee for two years and attended Commission meetings during the ACPA Conventions. Most recently, I was part of an effort to organize a convention institute for graduate faculty during the 2010 convention.

3. Please describe any previous involvement in ACPA and other professional organizations.
I was selected as an ACPA Emerging Scholar in 2009. I regularly present at ACPA conventions and serve as a reviewer of convention program proposals. Additionally, I served on the directorate for the Standing Committee for Women from 2000-2002.

4. Why do you wish to serve on the Professional Preparation Commission?
I am interested in serving on the Commission because I want to contribute to ACPA, advocate for the concerns of graduate students as it relates to their professional preparation and educational needs, and understand and represent the concerns of faculty, particularly those who are new to their positions.

5. Do you have other major involvements in ACPA or other associations that will prevent your participation in the annual directorate meeting on Sunday at convention?
No. I would make attending the annual directorate meeting a top professional priority.

Name: Joseph Murray
Title: Associate Professor of Education
Institution: Bucknell University
Full-time faculty in a higher education/ student affairs
graduate program

1. Please describe your educational and professional background, including your experience working in graduate preparation
programs.
Education: Ph.D., Michigan State University (College & University Administration); M.Ed., Ohio University (Student Personnel Services); B.A./B.S., Quincy College (Sociology, Social Work, Special Education).
Faculty Experience: Director, College Student Personnel Graduate Program, Bucknell University (2004 - present); Associate Professor of Education, Bucknell University (2001 – present); Assistant Professor of Education, Bucknell University (1994-2001).
Student Affairs Experience: Deputy Director of Placement & Student Services, Thomas M. Cooley Law School (1991-1994); Staff Advisor, Michigan State University (1987-1991); Campus Life Coordinator, Saint Martin’s College (1985-1987); Residence Hall Director, Saint Martin’s College (1984-1985); Graduate Associate, Ohio University (1983-1984).

2. Please describe any previous involvement in the ACPA Professional Preparation Commission.
I have not held a leadership position on the Commission previously, though I have been a member for about 15 years and have participated in Commission-sponsored meetings during the annual conference.

3. Please describe any previous involvement in ACPA and other professional organizations.
I have been a member of ACPA and NASPA for the past 24 years and I have been a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) for about eight years. I have conducted presentations at the national conferences of all three organizations and I have published articles in both the Journal of College Student Development and the NASPA Journal.

4. Why do you wish to serve on the Professional Preparation Commission?
As a faculty member who is affiliated with a master’s degree program at a small, private, and predominantly undergraduate institution, where I also teach undergraduate courses, I believe that I would bring a unique perspective to discussions of issues in the field. I have a first-hand understanding of the unique challenges facing students, faculty, and student affairs professionals within this particular segment of American higher education, and I would welcome the opportunity to share my perspective with colleagues on the Commission.

5. Do you have other major involvements in ACPA or other associations that will prevent your participation in the annual directorate meeting on Sunday at convention?
No.

Name: Richard Stevens
Title: Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
Institution: Shepherd University (West Virginia)
Full-time faculty in a higher education /student affairs graduate program

1. Please describe your educational and professional background, including your experience working in graduate preparation programs.

Ph.D. University of Maryland – College Park, 2000
M.S. Iowa State University, 1991
B.A. William and Mary, 1989

Since fall 2008 have been in tenured track faculty position and serve as the College Student Development and Administration Program Coordinator at Shepherd University. In 2004 I along with 2 colleagues took the lead in coordinating University efforts to develop the CSDA program at Shepherd. The program began offering courses in fall 2006 and I agreed to serve as Program Coordinator. I have been teaching courses in this program since fall 2006. In addition to my current faculty role, I served as Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs for 5.5 years. I have held positions in housing and commuter affairs over my 20 years in the field.

2. Please describe any previous involvement in the ACPA Professional Preparation Commission.
I have been a member of the Commission for a several years.
curriculum

3. Please describe any previous involvement in ACPA and other professional organizations.
ACPA Editor, Developments 2002-2009
Editorial Board, JCSD 2009-present
ACPA Convention Teams 2003, 2008, 2010
Joint Task Force for the Future of the Profession, 2008-present
Directorate member, Commission for Commuter Affairs and Adult Learners

WVASPA (West Virginia Assocication of Student Personnel Administrators)
Board of Directors – 2005-2007

ACUHO-I
GLBT Issues Committee, Communications Chair 1994-1996

ASHE
Program Reviewer 2005-2009

4. Why do you wish to serve on the Professional Preparation Commission?
ACPA is my professional home. I believe in supporting the work of professional organizations and feel the PPC is a wonderful new way for which I can stay involved with ACPA and connect more closely to my relatively new role as a faculty member. It is also role modeling opportunity for me with students and young professionals to show how faculty remain committed to the profession.

5. Do you have other major involvements in ACPA or other associations that will prevent your participation in the annual directorate meeting on Sunday at convention?
I am serving as General Program chair of the 2010 Convention. My work should be complete unless there is some emergency with which I will need to assist. I am not aware if there will be an editorial board meeting for JCSD at this time.

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