Resource Materials and Other Publications of ACAP
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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Duplicating & Printing at Colleges
Maximizing their Potential for Services and Revenue Generation
Resource Materials
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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Fire Safety on Campus
Hazardous Waste on Campus
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.
Contents
include all of the following
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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College & University Student Housing
Trends and Innovations in Residential Life plus the Design, Renovation and
Construction of Student Residences
Resource Materials
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:
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- 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
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- Advice for new directors of college and university housing departments
- 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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College Auxiliary Services
How Auxiliary Services Can be a Huge Asset to the
College in Revenue, Cost Savings and Service
Resource Materials
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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Duplicating & Printing at Colleges
Resource Materials
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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Resource Materials from ACAP's 2004
Annual Conference
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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Strategies to Reduce Alcohol & Drug Abuse
Achieving Diversity on Campus
Innovations in College Housing
Resource Materials
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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Effective Retention Strategies
At Public and Private Colleges
Resource Materials on
Keeping your Students
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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Innovative New Ideas & Programs
For College Administrators
ACAP Winter Forum – San Diego, California
February 10-13, 2001
Order form for over 400 pages of complete hand-out material distributed
at ACAP’s 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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Resource Materials on
College and University Student Housing
Construction, Renovation and Financing
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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Fire Safety
In College Residence Halls
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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Resource Materials on
Effective & Efficient Mail Centers
and Postal Services at Colleges
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 manager’s 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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