ACPA Senior Scholars Blog
2023 Senior Scholar Grants
Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Senior Scholar Grant Recipients: Katie Koo & Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif Title: Voices from the Margins: Racism, Racialized Experiences, and Racial Advocacy among Asian International Students in U.S. Higher D. Chase J. Catalano,...
2022 Senior Scholars Grants
Congratulations Grant Recipients 2022-2023 Chelsea Gilbert, The Ohio State University Co-theorizing with women of color postsecondary staff to disrupt systemic barriers. Tricia Shalka, University of Rochester A Mixed Methods Investigation of How College Student Trauma...
2023-Become a Senior Scholar
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS AND APPLICATIONS ACPA SENIOR SCHOLARS PROGRAM 2023–2028 ACPA implemented its Senior Scholars Program in 1984. ACPA Senior Scholars advocate for the integration of scholarship into the practice of student affairs. Senior Scholars, through the...
2021 Senior Scholars Grants
Call for Proposals: ACPA Senior Scholars Grant Program September 13, 2021 The American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and the Senior Scholars are committed to making policy programmatic decisions based on quality research data about the experiences of ...
ACPA Senior Scholars Statement of Action
As we continue to observe the pervasive and enduring acts of white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and colonialism—deeply rooted in our nation—we recognize that our campuses are not decoupled from that history; they are microcosms of what is playing out in larger society....
The Oar
If you put your soul against this oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives in us. Excerpt from That Lives In Us by ~Rumi The Oar As this academic year dies, there is life...
A Response to Patricia Daugherty’s Commentary: Situating My Beloved ACPA
Written by Sherry K. Watt "I only preach from my scars, not my wounds." -Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado As I read Patricia Daugherty’s Essay entitled What I Saw At A College Administrators’...
Radical Openness, Revolutionary Change: Shifting My Own Thinking
Written by Sherry K. Watt "The teacher also has to be a person who is going a little further. I don't for a minute think that we can be teachers who invite students into radical openness if we're not willing to be radically open ourselves, if we're not willing to be a...
How to Start a Revolution
Sherry K. Watt Professor, Higher Education and Student Affairs Program University of Iowa ACPA Senior Scholar The Revolution has started. Many are pushing back against our systems of traditional dominant-culture values, White supremacy, gender binary, heterosexism and...