Dear ACPA Colleagues: - ACPA 2014 Indianapolis Convention

Monday, March 28
2011 aCpa annuaL Convention
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
ing students. This roundtable provides an
opportunity to discuss specific challenges and
strategies to working collaboratively across the
fields of admissions, enrollment management,
orientation, and first-year experience programs
on campus to create a meaningful and seamless
transition experience for new students.
241 Promising Practice —
Accentuate the Positive: Using
Specific Positive Feedback for
Student Success
Student Success; Advising and Helping
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, 318
Program Presenter: Christopher Conzen,
Suffolk County Community College-Eastern
Additional Presenters: Kristen Rupert, Ohio
State University
Specific positive feedback (SPF) refers to
verbal positive acknowledgment of effective
behaviors, attitude, and personality traits
exhibited by a student. This can be used by
student affairs professionals in a wide variety
of functional areas to bolster and support student
success. This presentation will provide
participants with a basic understanding of
specific positive feedback and how to incorporate
it into daily work with students.
242 Promising Practice —
Building a Foundation: Social
Justice Education for Student
Leaders
Student Learning and Development;
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, 343
Program Presenter: Dawn Snyder, Oregon
State University
This session will review the content, creation,
and implementation of the Building Inclusive
Communities (BIC) series, a three-part training
workshop developed for self-identified
student leaders living and/or working in the
residence halls at Oregon State University.
BIC is not a required training, but rather
seeks to provide learning opportunities
for student leaders interested in difference
and inclusion. Our presentation should be
particularly useful to those seeking to create
and implement a new approach to student
learning around issues of diversity.
243 Promising Practice—Be
a Good Neighbor Schools,
Events, and Town/Gown
Relationships
Student Learning and Development;
Advising and Helping
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, 316
Program Presenter: Carol Galladian, Towson
University
Additional Presenters: Bridget Chase,
Towson University
Struggling with your relationship with the
surrounding community? Large university
events not making it any better? Come and
learn best practices for managing community
relations before, during, and after
campus-wide programs. Towson University, a
mid-size, urban institution, has implemented
new approaches to being a good neighbor
for events such as homecoming and outdoor
concerts. Attendees will receive literature and
materials, as well as examples of event policy
modifications.
244 Promising Practice—
Assessment’s Missing Link:
Turning Data into Action
Evidence and Improvement; Assessment,
Evaluation, and Research (AER)
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, 317
Program Presenter: Don Haviland, California
State University
Additional Presenters: Jonathan O’Brien,
California State University, Long Beach
Assessment is expected in student affairs
practice; however, implementing an effective
assessment strategy, particularly turning
data into action, is challenging for many
professionals who lack the resources and
expertise to make it happen. This interactive
session will provide simple but effective
recommendations to connect existing or
easily obtained data with concrete steps for
program improvement. Participants will
build confidence in their ability to conduct
data collection and analysis for decisionmaking
and program improvement.
245 Round Table—Arizona
State University: Housing Fair
Do’s, Don’t, and Dollar’s
Evidence and Improvement
Location: Marriott Inner Harbor, Grand
Ballroom D, E, F
Off-Campus and Commuter Student
Services (OCCSS) was created to connect
and engage students who reside off-campus.
For the past three years, one of our signature
events has been the Off-Campus Housing
Fair. This revenue-generating event provides
the opportunity to showcase our Be a Good
Neighbor Communities, our on-and offcampus
partnerships, as well as provides a
one-stop shop for students, faculty, staff and
community members in an engaging carnival
style atmosphere.
246 Round Table and ACPA
Foundation Sponsored
Program — Addressing the
Needs of College Student
Veterans
Student Success; Advising and Helping
Location: Hilton Baltimore, Tubman AB
The purpose of this round table discussion
session is to provide a forum for participants
to access and share resources. It will also
provide an opportunity for participants to
connect with others in the higher education
community who are concerned with addressing
the needs of college student veterans.
Participants will be actively engaged in the
round table discussion and will be asked
to share best practices they have found to
be most effective when supporting student
veterans at their institutions.
247 Round Table—Are We Too
White? Race: The Measure of
Departmental Diversity
Location: Marriott Inner Harbor, Grand
Ballroom A, B, C
The round table discussion will provide participants
with the opportunity to challenge
the idea that people of color are needed in
all conversations about diversity. Our main
goal is to support participants to develop
effective strategies to have conversations
about diversity regardless of who is present.
It is our belief that effective diversity initiatives
exist in student affairs departments that
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