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Dr. Cindi Love officially assumed the role of Executive Director of ACPA—College Student Educators International on July 1, 2014.

“The ACPA Governing Board has unanimously selected Dr. Cynthia Love to be our next Executive Director,” said Dr. Kathleen G. Kerr, 2013-2014 ACPA President.“In 2014, as ACPA celebrates its 90th year, we need a leader who has a vision for how ACPA will build upon and advance nine decades of leadership to higher and tertiary education and the student affairs field. Dr. Love has a commitment to ACPA’s core values and mission and a capacity to strategically guide the association forward. The Governing Board has great confidence Love will develop rich and meaningful relationships with ACPA members and our partners within the higher and tertiary education community worldwide.”

Dr. Love’s background uniquely positions her to assume this post. With significant experience in higher education, for-profit and non-profit management, and social justice work, Love will advance the Association’s current strategic plan and guide our future contributions to higher education and student services globally.

Download her Extended Bio  (PDF)

Download her Media Release Announcement (PDF)

Read her blog entries for The Huffington Post

World AIDS Day

Dr. Cindi Love, Executive Director

Monday, 1 December 2014 - 8:30am
In 1988, my brother, Patrick Leo Herndon, died of AIDS. He contracted HIV before the United States and pharmaceutical companies decided to invest in the survival of human beings living with and affected by HIV. Our family made an AIDSQuilt panel to honor him #4361 . Over the past 26 years, I’ve learned a lot about what kills people with AIDS and who is most vulnerable. It isn’t what they do or...

A Community Conversation: Confronting Reality Doing What Matters to Get Things Right

Dr. Cindi Love, Executive Director

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 - 8:05pm
ACPA—College Student Educators International invites you to gather with us in a conversation and creating voice about confronting the reality of racism in our communities and on our campuses. We need to talk about how we feel in the aftermath of the murder/killing of Michael Brown and what we believe is possible to do that actually matters. How do we get things right? How deep does our agency go...

Pell Grant Program Statement

Dr. Cindi Love, Executive Director

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 - 12:36pm
Dear Members and Friends of ACPA: We want to share the following policy statement by American Council on Education on which ACPA is a signatory. Thank you. Cindi Dear Chairman Harkin and Ranking Member Moran: On behalf of the undersigned associations, we write to express our strong opposition to any effort to use funding taken from the Pell Grant Program for any other purpose in the Fiscal Year...

Our Investment in the Parity Portfolio

Dr. Cindi Love, Executive Director

Tuesday, 18 November 2014 - 12:26pm
I am very pleased to announce that ACPA has recently added The Parity Portfolio to our socially responsible investments held in our reserve accounts. This is a pioneering gender lens investment, which seeks to provide financial and social returns to clients, seeking to move the needle toward gender equality in corporate America. The Parity Portfolio is based on research which shows that companies...

Team Changes and Additions to Support our Growing Community

Dr. Cindi Love, Executive Director

Thursday, 6 November 2014 - 8:45am
Dear ACPA Members, I am very pleased to announce several staff team changes and additions to support our growing ACPA community. Carlos Chavez, Senior Lead for Team Convene (Convention and all face-to-face events as well as collaboration with Team Belong (membership) and Team Impression & Impact (digital and other media) Ankur Ponda, Senior Lead for Team Belong (Membership & Recruitment)...