The Association of College Administration Professionals publishes a number of resource
materials for college administration professionals in a number of different areas. These
resource materials and other publications are practical in nature and can have a tremendous
impact upon the areas of ACAP's members.
These resource materials are intended to assist College and University Administration
professionals in making crucial decisions, provide useful, up-to-date information, and
offer strategies of successful models of administration and management.
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Order your copy of resource materials (115 pages) from the Association of College Administration
Professional's (ACAP) 2009 three-day Annual Conference, consisting of sessions in depth on all
the topics listed below:
- Achieving diversity on campus: A conceptual and operational model
- Learning centered institutions
- Student-centered learning environment
- Retention scorecard
- From vision to core identity: A diversity plan
- What we want students to know about leadership and diversity
- The important categories of assessment
- Meaningful use of data
- Academic outcomes
- Student outcomes
- Factors that affect effort
- Teaching for retention/diversity
- Exercises for orienting students to active learning
- Statement on diversity in educational programs
- The educational benefits of a diverse community
- External entities for resolution
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- The mission of office for diversity
- Harassment policy
- Why are 90 percent of college faculty still white?
- Diversity works video/workbook
- Cultural diversity in education programs
- Diversity in academic careers
- Involving the campus in achieving diversity
- Diversity and inclusion change process
- Diversity framework areas of focus
- Education and scholarship
- Diversity training plans
- Student development and enrollment services
- Leadership enhancement programs
- The University of Florida assessment plan (14 pages)
- 10 tips to cultural competency
- Inclusive communication guide (22 pages)
- Framework for educational and training initiatives (18 pages)
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- Pay-for-print
- The planning, pitfalls and payback of implementing pay-for-print on your campus
- Planning for your implementation
- Identifying the business need
- Identify the stake holders
- Specify benefits
- Create your team
- Set project goals, mile stones and timeline
- Investigate the vendors
- Prepare for change
- Pilot the system
- Install
- Review and ongoing evaluation
- Printing trends
- Paper consumption
- Charging vs. providing
- Determining institutional need
- Institutional buy-in
- Tracking costs
- Installation process
- Communicating your program
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- Change management
- Training
- Tracking users
- Establish pricing
- Average saving per student
- Customer service
- Copyright in academia
- U.S. copyright law
- Protected by copyright
- Not protected by copyright
- Public domain
- Ownership
- License and permission
- First sale doctrine
- Fair use statue
- Fair use in the classroom
- Limitations on exclusive rights
- Copyright infringement
- Digital content and copyright
- Course management systems
- When permission is needed
- Permission sources
- Pay-for-use services
- The annual copyright license
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Order your copy of resource materials (75 pages) from the Association of
College Administration Professional's (ACAP) 2009 three-day Annual Conference, consisting of sessions
in depth on all the topics listed below:
Increasing retention while assuring student success:
- What is retention
- Attraction
- Attrition
- Progression
- Retention
- What the data tells us
- One year retention rates
- Retention data analysis
- Retention success
- Retention challenges
- Models of attacking retention
- Retention committee
- Retention coordinator
- Retention unit
- Retention division
- Successful retention programs
- Steps to success
- Risk assessment
- Data mining
- Incoming student survey
- Transition
- Academic advising
- Academic support
- First year experience program
- Housing and residence life
- Experiential learning
- Personal development
- Collaboration and partnership
- Lessons learned
- Building a SEM organization as a data driven consultant
- The external environment in which colleges and universities operate is changing quickly
- Today's enrollment manager
- Embracing consulting expectations
- Student retention
- Undergraduate demographics
- What is SEM
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- The IHC orientation to SEM
- SEM fundamentals
- The strategy of SEM
- How research is used in SEM
- Key components to SEM
- What is included in a SEM plan
- Traditional core SEM objectives
- Comparing roles: consultant vs. SEM leaders
- IHC: a SEM performance concept
- IHC model in a nutshell
- Future students: demographic and population changes
- Factors most noted in choosing a college
- National vs. regional trends
- Top twenty graduate degrees
- Trends summary
- SEM strategies for success
- Why hire a consultant
- Phases of consulting process
- Core IHC retention assessments
- Long-term benefits of IHC model
- Academic experiences and student retention in community colleges
- A glance at the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education
- Practical applications of the seven principles
- A dozen teaching tips for diverse classrooms
- Creating a plan
- Identifying students at risk of attrition
- Effective communication strategies
- Personal success coaches help improve student persistence
- Identifying students in need of personalized interventions
- Implementing communication strategies
- Providing information relevant to each student
- Success coaches help students acclimate to college life
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Order your copy of resource materials (204 pages) from a 2-day workshop on
Duplicating & Printing at Colleges held in Baltimore, Maryland. The materials are both useful and
informative. The workshop consisted of in-depth sessions on all the topics listed below:
- The planning, pitfalls, & payback of implementing pay-for print on your campus
- Printing trends on campus
- Problems - increase in prints, high printing costs, efficiency, paper consumption; solution
- Pay-for print vs. print conservation
- Charging for all prints
- Steps to achieve pay-for-print
- Re-evaluating goals and outcomes
- Payback- reductions in costs and paper use
- Marks on paper: a campus convenience copier and laser printer management solution
- Printing trends
- From print to communication
- Paperless student services
- Copiers
- Printers
- Marks on paper -goals
- Multi-functionality
- Strategy
- Process
- Evaluation
- Requirements
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- Volume ranges
- Laser print specs
- Document management specs
- Reduce spoilage
- Increase profits with no expense
- Road to one-stop shopping
- Computer management system
- Business plan
- Marketing plan
- Using teams
- Customer service
- Customer conflict
- University graphics
- Custom publishing at Cornell University, getting started
- Challenges to custom publishing
- Waste, time, customer problems
- Copyright clearance
- Copyright law
- Classroom guidelines
- Why go electronic
- Copyright resource center
- Alto imaging copyright management
- Equipment needs
- Pricing for packets
- Advantages of custom publishing
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Order your copy (226 pages) of these recent resource materials used by experienced presenters
at 2-day workshops in Baltimore, Maryland. These materials are both useful and informative.
Fire Safety
- Leadership principles for fire safety
- Balanced fire protection
- A fire at University of Central Florida
- Emergency Response
- Major Incidents
- Incident command management
- The operations section
- The logistics section
- Finance/administration
- Components of Fire
- Fire Equipment
- Smoke Detectors
- Heat Detectors
- Fire prevention program
- Sprinkler system
- Fire Extinguishers
- Fires and Greek housing
- Fire Codes
- Fire safety information
- Security & safety checklist
- Fire inspection report
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Hazardous Waste
- Facilities that have hazardous waste - - labs, photo studios, health care
facilities, power plants, auto shops, research labs, medical waste,
wastewater-treatment plants, hazardous substances, etc.
- Facility guide for EPA audit
- Training aids
- New EPA rules for college labs
- College and campus initiative
- Agreements between EPA and a college
- Violations, fines, sanctions, penalties, litigation, enforcement action
- Is your school next?
- Environmental audit proposal
- EPA's voluntary audit policy
- EPA self audit
- Facility guide for audit
- Developing a corrective action plan
- Cost associated with compliance
- Top $$ saving activities
- Top five pollutant reductions
- Five simple waste reduction activities
- College & university audit costs
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Order your copy of this 240-page compilation of resource materials used by four experienced
presenters at a 2-day workshop held in Baltimore, Maryland. The materials are both useful and
informative. The workshop consisted of in-depth sessions on all the topics listed below:
- Making your case, a comprehensive analysis of your facilities needs to help persuade decision makers to support budget requests
- Facility assessment services, frequently asked questions
- To use or not to use private developers - - - that is the question
- Public - private partnerships for student housing
- Student housing today - - annual survey results
- A list of 13 student housing developers with names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mails
- New ways to access capital to meet student housing needs
- Facility management for student housing 2010
- Advice for new directors of college and university housing departments
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- Student housing innovations
- General trends in student housing
- Renovation, new construction, sustainable design, technology
- Staffing, safety and security, operations
- Master planning for student housing
- Use of focus groups
- Off-campus market analysis
- Peer institution analysis
- Student survey
- Program and budget development
- Financial model
- The many faces of privatization in student housing
- Trends in design for student housing
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Order your copy of resource materials (146 pages) from the 3-day workshop on
College Auxiliary Services at San Antonio in March 2005 by the Association of College Administration
Professionals. The workshop consisted of in depth sessions on all the topics listed below:
- Expanding the role of auxiliary services management
- The viability of auxiliary organizations into the 21 century
- Should you restructure the business enterprise
- Imposition of tax on unrelated business income
- Maximizing contract management efforts on campus to enhance
- Overview of effective contract management
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- Request for proposals
- Scope of the proposal
- Proposal content
- Privatization as strategic planning
- Contract management quality control
- Creating a quality relationship
- Contract administration
- Evaluation process
- Contract negotiation
- A discussion of the huge extent of auxiliary services at a community college
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Order your copy of resource materials (143 pages) from the 3-day workshop on Duplicating &
Printing at Colleges conducted at San Antonio in March 2005 by the Association of College
Administration Professionals. The workshop consisted of in depth sessions on all the topics listed below.
- Reduce spoilage
- Increase profits with no expense
- Road to one-stop shopping
- Computer management system
- Business Plan
- Marketing Plan
- Using teams
- Customer service
- Customer conflict
- University graphics
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- Up your printing value
- Relocating a printing operation
- What is performance management
- Performance meeting worksheet
- University printing survey
- Professor's order form
- Course packet copyright research service
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Order your copy of resource material from ACAP's 2004 Annual Conference (375 pages three-hole
punched to fit a binder) consisting of sessions in depth on all the topics listed above.
Triple Challenges for Higher Education
- The Survival Issues
- Preparing Students for the Work Place
- Learning Communities
- Civic Engagements
Town-Gown Relations
- The commitment of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to embrace university-community partnerships, a description of this excellent program.
- How Washington & Jefferson College changed its distrustful relationship with the
community to a model for collaboration.
- The University of Southern California's approach to have the surrounding community
become an integral part of the college.
- Pima County Community College's on-going very successful relations with the Tucson community.
Effective Retention Strategies
- Special Retention Program Features
- Workshop Topics for Students
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- Freshman Advising, Working with First-year Students
- Informing Academe
- Mentoring Programs
- The Freshman Success Program, Priority Registration
- Forty Retention Management Suggestions
- 20 Tips to Surviving the Freshman Year
- Matriculation Rates
- Retention Rates
- Successful Retention Planning-Step-by-Step
- Elements of a Successful Retention Efforts
Fire Safety, Hazardous Waste & Emergency Preparedness
- Fire Safety Tips
- Sprinkler Systems
- How DeAnza College coped with an emergency bomb threat at DeAnza College
- Evacuating the Campus
- Hazardous Waste on Campus - Specific Steps to Deal with all Phases
- Regulatory Issues for College Indoor Air Quality
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Order your copy of resource materials (275 pages) from ACAP's 2003 Annual Conference, consisting
of sessions in depth on all the topics listed below:
Leadership Skills for Challenging Times
- The change process
- Challenges in changing times
- Strategies for a changing culture
- Leadership maxims
- Essential leadership skills
- Leadership development
- Personal ethics survey
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Achieving Diversity on Campus
- Institutionalizing diversity efforts
- Marketing diversity
- Department of multicultural services
- Departmental planning and evaluation document for achieving diversity through respect
- Diversity initiatives
- Admissions and diversity
- The importance of diversity
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Alcohol & Drugs on Campus
- Changing the campus culture
- The scope of alcohol & drug problems on college campuses
- Campus drug courts, a complete description
- Alcohol policy
- Focus on binge, not all campus drinkers
- Preventing alcohol & drug abuse on a shoestring budget
- Comprehensive approach to prevention
- Promising strategies
- Social norms marketing campaigns
- Presidential leadership
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Innovations in College Housing
- Innovations in housing & food service
- Organizational diversity
- Leadership & management style
- From meal plan to debit card
- The University Center of Chicago, legal structure, operational structure & financing
- Faculty and staff housing at Cal-State Fullerton, construction, marketing, affordability, management & ownership and legal issues
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Order your copy of these recent resource materials used by experienced presenters
at 2-day workshops held in San Francisco. The materials are both useful and informative.
Contents include all of the following:
- The freshman success program
- Admission
- Orientation & mentoring
- Keeping Textbook Sales on Campus
- More mentoring
- Advising
- Retention Results
- Graduation Results
- Turning Freshmen into Sophomores
- A retention success story
- Develop, plan and coordinate a freshman retention program
- Service, satisfaction, and advocacy
- Why freshman leave
- Evaluation process
- What it costs to lose a freshman
- Ideas that may help students belong
- Priority registration experience program
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- Results, expenses, evaluation
- Revenue generated by retaining students
- 20 tips to surviving the freshman year
- A practical guide to student retention
- Organization chart
- Elements of successful retention management program
- Forty retention management suggestions
- Ten retention reports
- Administrative structure
- Costs of the retention program
- Faculty training
- Mandatory advising mechanics
- Mid-semester evaluation of new students
- Minority mentoring
- Other support services
- Comparative freshman retention rates
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Order form for over 400 pages of complete hand-out material distributed
at ACAPs 2001 Winter Forum, which featured 12 workshop and two general
sessions presented by highly skilled persons.
Contents:
- Invitation to Negotiate-A New Way of Doing Business
- The University Village Apartments
- A Unique Summer Program at University of Minnesota Duluth
- Keeping Textbook Sales on Campus
- Leadership for the Modern University in the New Economy: What's Required?
- The Campus Card -- What Is the Future?
- Campus Convenience Food Stores & Small Markets
- On-line Customer Course Packs & Electronic Textbooks
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- Run Higher Education like a Business? We are Better than That
- A Business Plan Design for College Bookstores
- Branding 2000-Branding College Food Services for Increased Sales & Profit
- The Value and Impact of Top Quality Catering
- Fire Safety in College Residence Halls
- Keeping your Students -- Effective Retention Strategies
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Order your copy of these recent resource materials used by experienced presenters
at a 2-day workshop on Student Housing. The materials are both useful and informative.
Contents include all of the following:
- Getting Started organizational mission and purpose, building student and
staff support, preliminary cost analysis, RFP for housing plan development
- New Construction case study, project review, survey results, current issues
- 2000 Architectural Portfolio- award winning projects, new construction, renovations,
and modernization
- The University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Building Experience to build or not to
build, getting approval, construction cost data, benefits, locations, facility amenities, floor plans,
bedrooms, kitchen, living room, bathroom furnishing
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- New Construction Case Study, University of Florida
- Designing Campus Housing Facilities
- Comprehensive Housing Plan comprehensive housing model, project initiation, focus
groups, off-campus market analysis, peer institution analysis, survey, operations analysis,
facility analysis, program and budget development, financial model, implementation strategy,
primer on partnering, case studies, developer profiles
- Resource List of Student Housing Developers
- Sample Copies of Requests for Proposals Student Housing
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Order your copy of these recent resource materials used by experienced presenters at two ACAP
workshops on Fire Safety. These materials are both useful and informative.
Contents:
- Fire Safe Student Housing is a 60-page guide for campus housing administrators
- Fire Safety in College Residence Halls - an 8- page introduction to Fire Behavior,
Protection Systems, Programs and Campus fire Safety Issues
- Fire Safety Education Fire Safety in College Residence Halls
- Residence Hall Fire Safety - 20-page guide and recommendations for safer student housing
- Fire Facts at Colleges - dormitory fires, fire safety regulations, fire extinguisher
inspection, fire safety room survey, fire drills, fire safety facts for students, safe holiday
decorations recommendation, OSHA citations at Seton Hall, fire evaluation procedures, and The
Campus Fire Safety Right to Know Act of 2000
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- Student Housing Fire Statistics and Causes - a 9-page paper with a list of available
videos and other resources
- Fire Sprinkler Facts by the National Fire Sprinkler Association
- Residential and Quick Response Sprinkler by the National Fire Sprinkler Association
- Maintain your Fire Sprinkler System by the National Fire Sprinkler Association
- Disaster Services available to Colleges and Universities
- The Relationship between Alcohol and Casualties of Fire this is a 41 page booklet
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency United States Fire Administrators
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Order your copy of these recent resource materials used by experienced presenters at 2-day workshops held
in San Diego, CA and Baltimore, MD on Mail Services. The materials are both useful and informative.
Contents include all of the following
- Presentation on Mail Center & Postal Services 112 pages about the topic Effective
& Efficient Mail Centers and Postal Services at Colleges
- Core Services a managers perspective and organizational responsibilities for mail
& transport services
- Phases in the Outsourcing Revolution Are You in Sync?
- Relationship of Mail to Printing
- Report from the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers
- Equipment, Products, Services & Trade Magazines
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- Trends and Opportunities in the University Print and Mail Environment
- A 12-page Resource Guide for Campus Mail Services
- Top Ten things Colleges and Universities should avoid in Mail Processing 38 pages of informative information
- Mail Preparation & Addressing Guide
- Overview of Mail Service
- Mail and Document Service of UCLA
- Resources and References for Performance Management
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