Dear ACPA Colleagues: - ACPA 2014 Indianapolis Convention

The experiential learning movement has accelerated
opportunities for students to develop social
consciousness while expanding their intellectual
capacities. Practitioners can advance students’
intercultural maturity using reflective models
that promote active citizenship.
Participants will acquire a theoretical foundation
and methods of application through
synthesis of the intercultural maturity
trajectory (King & Baxter Magolda, 2004)
and the active citizenship continuum (Break
Away: the Alternative Breaks Connection,
Inc., 1991). Case studies will be employed to
identify challenges and nuances of integrating
this framework.
517 Developing Students in
Groups: Meeting Individual
and Group Needs
Student Learning and Development;
Advising and Helping
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, 348
Program Presenter: Erica Johnson,
University of Maryland, College Park
Additional Presenters: Amy Lorenz, Miami
University
Student organization advisors work with
large groups of students with diverse
backgrounds and developmental capacities.
Program participants will develop a plan for
student organization advising and develop
learning outcomes for student organizations
that meet the various developmental needs of
students within those groups. The presenters
will share prominent student development
theories they find most useful to engage
student organization members across a wide
array of developmental levels.
518 Assessing Multicultural
Competence in Student Affairs
Organizations
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion;
Assessment, Evaluation, and
Research (AER)
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, 317
Program Presenter: Lacretia Johnson,
University of Vermont
Additional Presenters: Jamie Washington,
Social Justice Training Institute ; Erin Craw,
University of Vermont; Salvador Mena,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Multicultural Competence in Student
Affairs Organizations (MCSAO) Question-
naire is a new tool designed to help student
affairs organizations assess and plan for
strategic multicultural organizational change.
Tested at more than 20 institutions across
the United States, the MCSAO builds on the
conceptual work of Pope, Reynolds, and Mueller
(2004) and Grieger (1996). This session
will discuss the design, testing, and applications
of this tool, and introduce a new model
of organizational multicultural competence.
519 Beyond Posters: The
Narrative Approach to Social
Norms Marketing
Student Success
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, 349
Program Presenter: Cynthia Parcover,
Loyola University Maryland
Social Norms Marketing is a key component
of Loyola’s comprehensive AOD prevention
program. Central to the approach is
the use of the narrative metaphor, adopted
from Michael White’s narrative counseling
theory, which posits that our sense of reality
is organized and maintained through stories
by which we circulate knowledge about ourselves
and our communities. The narrative
approach to SNM uses data to challenge and
revise the dominant cultural narrative, with
the ultimate goal of effecting change within
student behavior.
520 Moving Women Toward
Purposeful Living Institute: A
Circular Approach Part III
Student Success; Student Learning and
Development
Location: Hilton Baltimore, Key 4
Program Presenter: Vicki Cawley-Pitstick,
The Ohio State University
Additional Presenters: Karrie Mills, Ohio
State University; Julie Humbel-Courtney, Ohio
State University; Jamie Lodermeier-Fay, Ohio
State University; Susannah Turner, Ohio State
University
The pressures of society and seduction of
social media can cause college women to
become isolated and avoid personal opportunities
to bond with other women. Join us to
learn about Women’s Circles, the innovative
approach developed and being used at Ohio
State University. Women’s Circles provide
safe spaces to voice concerns and challenges
women may be facing. Presenters will
conduct a “typical” week from the Women’s
be more
Circle Relationships Curriculum to provide
participants with the circle experience.
521 Calling All Practitioners
Feeling a Little Stretched Thin!
Student Learning and Development;
Human and Organizational Resources
Location: Hilton Baltimore, Key 3
Program Presenter: Courtney Stone,
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Additional Presenters: Robert Brown,
Michigan State University
The current economic climate will inevitably
result in more work shared among less
people, but with intentionality and creativity
we can maximize the talents of our paraprofessionals
to do our best work. Come find
out how Rutgers University is integrating
our senior-level undergraduate staff in the
design and implementation of New Student
Orientation, in addition to the supervision
of orientation leaders. While our primary
example is orientation, our target audience
includes any practitioner wanting to better
utilize undergraduate staff.
522 Student Affairs at Sea:
Internationalizing the Graduate
Student Experience
Student Learning and Development;
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Sponsored Program
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, 350
Program Presenter: Shanon Langlie,
Clemson University
Additional Presenters: Christine Hamilton,
University of St. Thomas; Megan Chester,
Northeastern University; Sarah Popovich,
University of Maryland, College Park
Two evolving buzz words in higher education
are globalization and internationalization.
During summer 2010, 16 graduate students
embarked on a program in which they experienced
these trends firsthand. The Student
Affairs at Sea program (SaAS) enabled these
graduate students to continue their education
through classroom instruction, graduate
internships, site visits, and international
travel. In this interactive session, a panel of
SaAS students will discuss how this experience
fostered professional development, international
awareness, and increased creativity
when working with limited resources.
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Monday, March 28