Message from the Board of Directors

November 2008

Message from the Board of Directors

Dear friends:

Welcome to the website of the Association for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities.

In 2009, ASACCU celebrates the 10^th anniversary of our founding.  ASACCU was founded in 1999 by a group of student affairs practitioners working at Catholic colleges and universities in the United States.  The purpose of the organization is to provide an opportunity for communication and colleagueship among student affairs professionals who work at Catholic institutions.

ASACCU also provides opportunities to increase one’s knowledge and understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition, as well as opportunities to discuss how to apply that understanding in one’s day-to-day work with students on campus.  ASACCU is an independent organization, but is affiliated with the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU).  We also collaborate with the Jesuit Association of Student Personnel Administrators (JASPA), and many Jesuit institutions are members of both organizations.

Thanks to your commitment, ASACCU has made a contribution both to the individual schools that are members and to Catholic higher education in general.  We include a majority of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States in our membership.  We also have member institutions in Canada and Lebanon.

We gather together once a year for an annual conference at the end of July.  Our conference was held this past summer on the campus of Siena College in Albany, New York on July 29 to August 1, 2009.  The theme was, “Cherishing Our Traditions; Inspiring Our Future.”

In addition to this annual conference, ASACCU hosts an annual meeting in October of senior student affairs officers.  We have made a commitment to the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) to organize a Mass on the Sunday of the annual conference as a service to all of our Catholic colleagues who work in student affairs.  We maintain this website and publish an annual directory to facilitate the on-going communication of our members.  Our organization was instrumental in publishing the Principles of Good Practice for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities in 2007.

God’s peace and best wishes for 2009.

ASACCU’s Board of Directors