1. Using the ACPA/NASPA Professional Competency Areas & Rubrics
Shana Meyer; Susan Marine; Ellen Meents-DeCaigny;
Rozana Carducci; Houston Dougharty; Scot Lingrell;
Lisa Brown Cornelius; Vince Loffredo; Amy Bergerson;
John Hoffman; Stephanie Gordon
Monday, March 13, 2017 Convention Center, 213 AB

2. Session Agenda
Competencies Using the Competencies / Resources Rubrics Discussion
Inform the design of professional development opportunities for student affairs professionals
Provide outcomes that can be incorporated into the design of specific curriculum and training opportunities
Guide practitioners in making choices about professional development opportunities afforded to them
Focus on practicality & use (instead of theoretical)

3. Professional Competencies
Advising and Supporting
#AS
Assessment, Evaluation
and Research #AER
Law, Policy and Governance #LPG
Leadership #LEAD
Organizational and Human Resources
#OHR
Personal & Ethical Foundations
#PEF
Social Justice and Inclusion
#SJI
Student Learning and
Development #SLD
Technology #TECH
Values, Philosophy & History
#VPH
ACPA & NASPA Joint Task Force
Review of the Literature
Professional Competencies for Student Affairs Practitioners – July 2010
Revision Task Force – 2014
Professional Competencies for Student Affairs Educators – 2015
ACPA/NASPA Professional Competencies Rubrics-2016
Cycle of updates--5 year revision cycle (address from faculty perspective / address from practitioner perspective)

4. Competency Levels Foundational, Intermediate, & Advanced
Delineate the increasing complexity and ability that should be demonstrated by practitioners as they grow in their professional development
Should not be confused with years of service in the field, current role, or title

5. Using the Competencies
Graduate Program Coordinators
Graduate Students
Supervisors & Hiring Managers
Divisional Professional Development Coordinators
Faculty
Professional Organizations

7. Professional Standards Division

8. PS Division Website

9. Resources Employee Onboarding Division Training Program
Self-Assessment and Professional Development Planning
Graduate Fieldwork Evaluation

10. What Are Competency Rubrics?
“A tool that professionals can use to assess their knowledge, skills, and dispositions across foundational, intermediate, and advanced levels of experience.”
--ACPA/NASPA Professional Competencies Rubrics
Why Rubrics? Rubrics describe skills, knowledge, and dispositions associated with ten professional competencies across three levels of development
The rubrics are easy to understand and use that are widely accessible to anyone interested in professional development and learning more about our field.

11. Personal & Ethical Foundations
Dimension
Foundational
Intermediate
Advanced
Self-Assessment and Reflection
Know personal beliefs, values, assumptions, biases. Ability to engage in rigorous and systematic self-reflection and share insights with others as appropriate. Dispositions to seek meaning in experience and to implement one’s insights.
Recognize importance of reflection in personal, professional, and ethical development
Broaden perspective by participating in activities that challenge one’s beliefs
Craft a realistic, summative self-appraisal with ongoing feedback
Analyze personal experiences for deeper learning / growth; engage others in reflection
Identify meaningfulness of personal beliefs and commitments
Build regular reflection into one’s daily work schedule
Put reflection into positive action

12. Social Justice Inclusion
Dimension
Foundational
Intermediate
Advanced
Engaging in Socially-Just Practice
Knowledge of behaviors and practices that promote inclusion. Ability to incorporate knowledge of inequities, social justice frameworks, and social trends through daily interactions, behaviors, and work products. Disposition to dismantle bias, engage in consciousness raising and lead by example in a way that allows for learning and progress.
Integrate knowledge of social justice, inclusion, oppression, privilege, and power into one’s practice
Connect and build meaningful relationships with others while recognizing their multiple, intersecting identities, perspectives, and developmental differences
Advocate on issues of social justice, oppression, privilege, and power that impact people based on local, country, and global interconnections.
Facilitate dialogue about issues of social justice, inclusion, power, privilege, and oppression in one’s practice.
Design programs and events that are inclusive, promote social consciousness and challenge current institutional, country, global and sociopolitical systems of oppression
Address bias incidents affecting campus communities.
Advocate for social justice values in institutional mission, goals, and programs.
Foster and promote an institutional culture that supports the free and open expression of ideas, identities, and beliefs, and where individuals have the capacity to negotiate different standpoints.
Advocate on issues of social justice, oppression, privilege, and power that affect people based on local country, and global interconnections.

13. Using the Rubrics Graduate Program Coordinators Graduate Students
Supervisors & Hiring Managers
Divisional Professional Development Coordinators
Faculty
Professional Organizations

14. How Are YOU Using?
How is your campus using the competencies & / or the rubrics?
What opportunities are there to grow use of the competencies & / or rubrics?
How can NASPA serve you in the knowledge & use of the competencies & / or rubrics?
What roadblocks hinder your use of the competencies?
What roadblocks hinder your use of the rubrics?
Potential of Dividing the Room by affiliation
Pair with a partner & identify one strategy for utilizing the Competencies in your professional practice or organizational work
Make sure to discuss competencies in the conference program book; now is a time to begin building knowledge, skills, etc through session attendance

15. Division Roster Shana Meyer, Director slmeyer@missouriwestern.edu
John Hoffman, Director-Elect
Susan Marine, Faculty Liaison
Ellen Meents-DeCaigny, KC Liaison
Rozana Carducci, Region I
Houston Dougharty, Region II
Scot Lingrell, Region III
Lisa Brown Cornelius, Region IV-E
Vince Loffredo , Region IV-W
Amy Bergerson, Region V
John Hoffman, Region VI
Stephanie Gordon, NASPA

16. Thank you for joining us today!
Please remember to complete your customized online evaluation following the conference.
See you in Philly in 2018!