ACPA's 2014 governance election results are in! Please join us in congratulating these outstanding ACPA leaders who will serve us and the association well! Thank you to all who stepped forward to run for ACPA leadership positions and to all who voted. ACPA’s success is the strength of its members, and we appreciate everyone’s involvement in the election process. The Director of Professional Development (elect) will be announced in January.
Thursday, December 5, 2013 the world lost a true leader - Nelson Mandela, 95, former president and first black president of South Africa. ACPA joins the world in honoring a true leader for social justice and shares its condolences with our tertiary education colleagues in South Africa.
Kathleen Kerr, ACPA President
Gregory Roberts, Executive Director
View a complete bio of Nelson Mandela.
ACPA invites applications for the Editor of the JOURNAL OF COLLEGE STUDENT DEVELOPMENT (JCSD). The Editor will be named in late spring 2014 to a five-year term that commences August 1, 2015. The Journal is well-supported financially by both ACPA and the publisher with an operational budget and funding for a graduate assistant. Some support is also required of the Editor’s institution including physical space for JCSD files.
ACPA joined ACE and a group of 40 higher education associations in submitting another brief in the case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (UT) that is about the use of race in the college admissions process.
On June 24, in a 7-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. The Supreme Court stated that the Fifth Circuit Court did not apply a sufficiently demanding legal standard when it upheld the partial use of race in selecting entering classes at the University of Texas at Austin.