Volume 17, Issue 3

Letter from the Editors, June 2020

Hello, everyone. This issue of Developments focuses on how people are affected by, engaging with, and negotiating issues related to ...

Letter from the President, June 2020

A week or so before our annual convention this year, I was chatting with ACPA’s Executive Director – Chris Moody.  ...

Letter from the Executive Director, May 2020

After all that college students, their families, institutional leaders, faculty, and particularly staff and student affairs professionals have been through ...

Living in the Times of COVID-19: Through the Eyes of a Liberian Girl

Angel Wazin Morgan State University They say a story told is a life lived. Lately, we find ourselves reading or ...

ACPA Books Call for Publications

Do you have a great idea for a book that could benefit the field of student affairs and higher education ...

Sincerely Yours, The Quarantine Club

Jordan Viars Duke University Emily Zarych Bryant University Hannah Aksamit California Polytechnic State University Molly Jean Callahan College of Charleston ...

Building the Plane

Kipp Van Dyke Iowa State University It is often joked about that “universities move slowly” in terms of even simple ...

COVID-19, Loss, and Reflections

Matthew R. Shupp Shippensburg University Casey Norton Shippensburg University Robyn Swayne Shippensburg University Gabrielle A. Reed Shippensburg University Taylor Donahue ...

Calling out the Heroes Who Make Things Happen: COVID-19 ACPA/IASAS/ACUI Webinar Reflections

Robert Shea Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada On March 31, 2020.  ACPA - College Student Educators International the Association of College ...

More Than Snow Storms and Hurricanes: The True Meaning of Essential Personnel in Student Affairs

Kevin P. Schafer Montclair State University I drove onto campus and there was plenty of parking, when just a week ...

How I Spent My (Endless) Spring Break: What We Can Learn from our COVID-19 Experiences, from the Graduate Student Perspective

Margaret Potter Clemson University As someone who tends to be a fatalist, I realized on March 11th, 2020 that we ...

Professional organizations and support for professionals experiencing unemployment

Conor P. McLaughlin Bowling Green State University In February 2020 3.5% of the United State population was experiencing unemployment (Statista, ...

Recognizing COVID-19 as Trauma: Considerations for Student Affairs Educators and Faculty Developers

William L. Harder Goucher College Brian L. McGowan American University COVID-19 has disrupted the academic lives and professional trajectories of ...

Teaching Student Affairs Administration Online via a Simulated Institution and a Pandemic

Becki Elkins University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Garrett Denning University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Beck Hawkins University of Wisconsin-La Crosse I (Becki) ...