Welcome to SAPAA!
The Student Affairs Partnering With Academic Affairs (SAPAA) Knowledge Community provides a forum for interaction among student affairs professionals serving in an academic unit within their institutions and/or those who are interested in the collaboration between student and academic affairs and how this collaboration can continue and thrive in the future. It also promotes the presentation of programs and workshops at regional and national conferences on issues related to the connection between student affairs and academic affairs. In doing so the SAPAA Knowledge Community serves to enhance the professional development of the person working in this area as well as to provide an opportunity for others to become aware of, and more familiar with, these issues. Finally, the SAPAA Knowledge Community encourages research and scholarly publication in the area of collaboration between academic and student affairs as well as promising practices at institutions.
We hope that this site provides you with a great place to connect with other professionals as well as gain and share valuable resources. We also hope that you will utilize this site to:
- Remain connected to NASPA and the SAPAA KC
- Learn about leadership opportunities within NASPA and the SAPAA KC
- Get to know our national and regional leadership team
- Remain informed on regional and national conferences, programs, events, and initiatives
If you have any ideas for the website, please let us know! Your input is invaluable as we continue to increase membership, promote leadership, and maintain excellence!
Sincerely,
SAPAA National Chairs
Janet H. Brugger, M.S.
Shannon Gary, Ed.D.
Announcing the Research Grant Recipients:
Congratulations to the SAPAA KC Research Grant Recipients!
Members of the entire SAPAA KC congratulate Dr. Robert Reason and Mr. Ezekiel Kimball for their winning research grant proposal, titled: “A Search for Common Ground: An Examination of Understandings of Student Learning and Development in Student and Academic Affairs.”
Dr. Reason is associate professor in the Department of Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies at the Iowa State University, and Mr. Kimball is a doctoral candidate in higher education at the Pennsylvania State University and a research assistant at Penn State’s Center for the Study of Higher Education. The grant award provides $1,000 for the scholars’ quantitative study on the conceptualizations of student learning and development by academic and student affairs professionals, and the team will develop measures to assess the common and unique perspectives among these practitioners.
Please join us at the SAPAA KC Business Meeting during the 2012 NASPA
Conference in Phoenix, AZ, at 6:00 PM -7:00 PM on Tuesday, March 13 in the Sheraton Hotel (Camelback B), to hear an update from our research grant recipients! |