Mid-Atlantic Placement Conference Early-Bird Registration Extended

Looking for a graduate assistantship or new professional opportunity?  Looking for a new staff member to round out your residence life team?  Come join us at MAPC!

The The Mid-Atlantic Placement Conference began in 1996 and serves as the regional placement conference, designed similarly to the Placement Exchange.

MAPC will take place in Reading, PA at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Thurs. Feb. 23rd and Fri. Feb. 24th

Early Bird registration has been extended until January 20th

All fees for MAPC including registration, meals, and hotel accommodations can be found on the conference website.  

Seton Hall Women's Conference 2012

March is National Women's History Month and the theme for 2012 is “Women’s Education - Women’s Empowerment.”

For the past seventeen years, Seton Hall University has celebrated Women’s History Month with a conference that provides the University community an opportunity to engage in an informed dialogue on women's issues.

The conference typically includes a brunch, a keynote address and two workshop sessions. Within each session, attendees are able to select from workshops that relate to the national theme and focus on varying topics.

This year's theme, "Women's Education - Women's Empowerment," pays tribute to the valiant struggle waged by many tenacious women -- across years and across cultures -- to receive the same educational opportunities as men.

If you are interested in presenting a session at the 2012 conference, complete the session proposal form. Proposals are due no later than Monday, January 23.  All members of the University community and the public are invited to submit a proposal.

Additional elements of the conference and month-long celebration include:

• Selection of the University's “Woman of the Year”
• Selection of a female undergraduate and graduate student for the “On the Shoulders We Stand” Award
• Community service project
• The Women's Appreciation Dinner

Look for more conference details in the coming months.

For more information please contact:
Rosario Reyes
(973) 275-2137
rosario.reyes-urbina@shu.edu

ACPA Ambassador Program

ACPA’s Standing Committee for Graduate Students and New Professionals (SCGSNP) is excited to start out the New Year by officially launching the ACPA Ambassador program with support from the Governing Board and Convention planning team! After significant collaboration from ACPA we are pleased to announce that applications are live and available. 

The program is open to graduate students (Masters and Doctoral) as well as new professionals. We eagerly await your application and participation! Additional information about the program is included below.  After learning more about the ACPA Ambassador program you can complete your application HERE. Applications are due January 31, 2012. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Amanda Mollet via email at chair.scgsnp@gmail.com.  Thank you, and we hope you choose to apply to become an ACPA Ambassador!              

ACPA Ambassadors 

The ACPA Ambassadors will provide a personal link between ACPA and campuses worldwide. Ambassadors are pro-active individuals seeking an opportunity to become actively engaged with their professional association and who have committed to sharing professional development and leadership opportunities with their local colleagues. Ambassadors keep professionals at their institutions informed regarding ACPA/SCGSNP events and programs, encourage membership in ACPA and the SCGSNP, and provide feedback to the association and its leadership. 

Participants will have many opportunities to serve ACPA while gaining valuable networking, leadership, and career development. The Ambassador position will provide specifically focused engagement for master’s students, doctoral students, and new professionals.   

Benefits:      

•       Direct voice to ACPA leadership to share thoughts, ideas, and concerns          

•       Opportunity to shape the future of ACPA by providing immediate and direct feedback

•       Participation in a mentor program involving ACPA Leadership and prominent Student Affairs professionals

•       Free participation in specific intentionally focused professional development opportunities offered at least quarterly     

•       ACPA Ambassadors recognition pin          

•       Appreciation and networking reception during convention with ACPA Leadership* 

•        Recognition on ACPA website and in convention publications        

•       Nametag identification at Convention to be clearly visible and distinguished in role*

Requirements:        

•       Must intend to be at their current institution through March 2013        

•       Must maintain active membership in ACPA        

•       Commit to the position for duration of one year (inaugural position will be held from February 2012 March 2013)        

•       A maximum of one Ambassador will be selected per institution in each category:

     Ø  Graduate Student- Master’s or Doctoral   

Ø  New Professional

Responsibilities:                 

All Ambassadors        

•       Participate in regular conference calls with Ambassadors and ACPA leadership        

•       Serve as focus group for new ACPA initiatives and programs        

•       Serve on one ACPA or SCGSNP committee        

•       Communicate and promote ACPA updates to institution at least monthly        

•       Contribute one article to the SCGSNP newsletter         

•       Utilize social media to promote ACPA and SCGSNP including Facebook and Twitter        

•       Assist at special events during convention including those held in the leadership suites*  ·       

•       Participate in SCGSNP leadership meetings during convention*(Convention attendance is not mandatory for Ambassadors; however, these and other opportunities will be available for Ambassadors that are able to attend Convention 2012.)

Graduate Student Ambassadors (in addition to those listed under All Ambassadors)        

•       Serve as an official ACPA representative for student affairs student organizations on campus (as applicable)        

•       Assist in the development of student affairs student organizations at host institution and at institutions where one is not currently in place

New Professional Ambassadors (in addition to those listed under All Ambassadors)        

•       Aid in promoting Phyllis Mabel New Professional Institute        

•       Facilitate one ACPA networking event or program on the campus, state, or regional level each semester.

For more information, please contact Ashley Nickelsen.  

Blog Talk Radio

Dr. Jodi Fisler, this year’s winner of the SACSA Dissertation of the Year Award, did an interview on blog talk radio today based on her dissertation, The Elephant in the Room: Deconstructing the Place of Conservatives in the Student Affairs Profession.  She discusses the often unacknowledged aspect of diversity in higher education, namely the experiences and perceptions of conservatives who work in the field of student affairs.  It is well worth listening to and passing along!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bhp/2012/01/05/conservatives-in-academic-administration

The New C3 is Open!

The New C3 is open! There are already over 200 candidates registered for the New C3 in Louisville! There are some incredibly exciting changes in store for candidates and employers this year!

·  The New C3 is working with CSO to provide the software that will power your job searching and recruitment efforts. Based on feedback from our constituents, we have changed our career fair software vendor and are no longer working with JobTarget.

·   Participation in The New C3 is part of your convention registration! You can register as a candidate and post a job as long as you are registered as a convention participant in Louisville. Additional job postings and interview tables are available at an additional cost.

·  There are step-by-step pdfs to help folks (both candidates and employers) with the registration process in the Resources section of CSO and a youtube video of our Candidate Webcast. Same thing for the Employer Webinar!

·  There are articles and tip sheets galore available in the Resource Library!

·  Take advantage of a great central location, terrific hotel rates and great hospitality and participate in The NewC3!


Highlights of ACPA 2012 in Louisville
·  Fourth St. Live (great dining at all price points, bars, clubs, free entertainment, at the convention site)  http://www.4thstlive.com/index.cfm <http://www.4thstlive.com/index.cfm>
·  Muhammad Ali Center (social justice museum)  http://www.alicenter.org/Pages/default.aspx <http://www.alicenter.org/Pages/default.aspx>
·  Free internet at all hotels
·  $8 a day parking at hotels
·  Inexpensive restaurants, like Panera Bread, across from Convention Center
·  Most affordable hotel rooms anywhere, at any convention - and they are suites!!!
·  Social Justice focused Louisville
·  Lisa Ling!
·  Van Jones!

Reminder: Job Hunt Blog

StudentAffairs.com is looking for a couple of graduate students to write our weekly blog for the 2012 Student Affairs Job Hunt. This will be our 7th year of, to paraphrase Jim McKay's introduction to ABC's long-running Wide World of Sports, "Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of job hunt experiences... the thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat... the human drama of the job hunt competition."

Interested graduate students should submit one writing sample that would be in line with what would appear on the Job Hunt Blog.  Please do not submit a writing sample from a course you have taken or from a personal blog. The deadline to submit a sample to Stuart Brown at Stuart@StudentAffairs.com is Friday, January 6, 2012. The blog will begin the first week of January 9, 2012. 

There is a small stipend and the blog will be anonymous to give students more freedom in writing about their experiences. We am looking for individuals that can write interesting, fun, enlightening, edgy, eye-opening blogs. This would take someone who has the time to write a blog, is not shy, and who is a good, creative writer. Students can get an idea of what we am looking for by going to our blog page  and perusing the previous Student Affairs Job Hunt blogs.

11th Annual Virtual Case Study Competition

We are now accepting registrations for our 11th Annual Virtual Case Study Competition for Masters level students in student personnel administration, higher education, or counseling programs. Information on registering teams, rules and prizes is available at the Virtual Case Study website.

  

Registration is free and prizes will be awarded to the top three teams.

	1st Place: $150.00 to each team member
	2nd Place: $100.00 to each team member
	3rd Place: $50.00 to each team member

  

The registration deadline is  Friday, January 27, 2012. The competition will take place from January 30 - February 24, 2012. There is no limit on the number of teams per graduate program that can enter.  A write-up of our winners along with links to each team project will be published in our Spring 2012 e-journal, The Journal of Technology in Student Affairs.