Wednesday, 4 November 2015 - 11:29am

The updated ACPA/NASPA Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Practitioners outlines the current thinking in the field of the broad professional knowledge, skills, and attitudes expected of student affairs professionals. ACPA’s Rubrics for Professional Development were designed to complement the assessment of these competencies, and now also need revision. We are excited to create a joint ACPA/NASPA task force charged with revising these rubrics and seek 5 ACPA volunteers to join the team.

Professional Competencies Rubric Development Task Force Charge

  1. Review the current rubric document to ascertain this tool’s utility for assessment of an individual’s competencies, staff development, training planning and/or other uses.
  2. Review & update the structure and language throughout the document to reflect improved/additional use and new competencies
  3. Ground the document and the use of rubrics in theory and best practices for student learning acquisition; create a preface with context to explain the purpose of rubrics that is grounded in assessment and evaluation best practice.  
  4. Add an implication for use section that could include: self assessment tool; how-to guide to develop training based on rubrics; samples of artifacts to collect to be used in job search
  5. Edit the final product so that it is cohesive, consistent, polished, and accessible to professionals from a variety of backgrounds and levels of expertise. 

Structure: Five ACPA members will be appointed to work in collaboration with 5 members of NASPA, lead by two co-chairs, 1 from each association. We are in search of a group who can represent skills in the following areas:

  1. Experience in competency-based assessment, particularly in the development and application of rubrics for competency evaluation
  2. Experience teaching and/or supervision of graduate students and new professionals in the field that utilizes competency based learning and skill development
  3. Leadership and experience working with professional standards and ethics
  4. Expertise in social justice education/equity and inclusion in a variety of contexts, particularly as it relates to creating learning environments that foster equitable participation of all groups while seeking to address and acknowledge issues of privilege and power and applications of social justice theory to practice.
  5. Expertise in the use of digital tools, resources, and technologies for the advancement of student learning and success and improved performance of student affairs professionals and digital literacy.

Click here to apply today! Deadline for applications is November 16, 2015.  For questions or more information, email Lisa Landreman, Director of Professional Development, ACPA Governing Board.