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ARTICLE 1: Two year Long Initiative With HBCU's Culminates In New Programs At APCA National Conference
Several directors have participated over the past two years at organizational meetings in New York City and Atlanta to develop educational presentations on topics affecting HBCU's. HBCU directors have also consulted on the organization of HBCU special events to be hosted at APCA including an all African American Artist showcase on March 15th. South Florida sensation and Epic Records recording artist CASLEY will be a part of that showcase, along with several other notable African American artists in the fields of poetry,comedy and music. "A couple of years ago the APCA reached to about 13 historically African American Universities to provide dialog regarding what we felt our schools needed when it came to programming," says Steve Stephens from Coppin State. "Since that time, several HBCU's have formed a partnership with the APCA and have served in pivotal roles as consultants and event planners to help ensure the authenticity of the HBCU programming initiative. Student Activities Administrators such as Deon Ridgell of Xavier University and myself have had the chance to sit down face to face with Eric and tell him what we feel our institutions need. The results of these meetings and dialog sessions will be on display at the APCA National Conference in Atlanta during the month of March. I feel that our constituents at our sister HBCU's will be well pleased at what we have planned for them." MEMBERS, TO READ FULL ARTICLE CLICK HERE READ MORE OF THIS ARTICLE ARTICLE 2: Learning Reconsidered: Addressing Humanitarianism, Civic Involvement, and Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competence
Contact Del at 1-800-323-1976 or www.SaltwaterMusic.com
Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience was released in 2004 by the National Association Student Activities should be a full partner in the comprehensive, holistic, transformative activity of learning. Learning Reconsidered presents learning outcomes that apply to a campus-wide curriculum. These outcomes relate directly to Student Activities, especially the model of co-curricular programming. Co-curricular Programs in Student Activities Of course the Director of Student Activities is an educator, as are the assistant directors, program specialists, and coordinators. In fact, the Office of Student Activities plays a duel role in student education. We discuss those co-curricular programs presented by the Office of Student Activities. These programs have a campus-wide learning component, a lesson or learning outcome aimed at all who attend the program. That is often the primary purpose for presenting a particular program. MEMBERS, TO READ FULL ARTICLE CLICK HERE READ MORE OF THIS ARTICLE ARTICLE 3: Fighting Alcohol Abuse On Campus With Your Activities Program! By: Stan Bumgarner
College students today are surrounded by a culture of addiction. The alcohol industry spends billions of dollars on television and radio commercials and magazine, newspaper and billboard ads. Ubiquitous pharmaceutical company ads hawk everything from a good night's sleep to relief from restless leg syndrome, depression, social anxiety, and the bane of middle-aged men— erectile dysfunction, a condition rarely found in college-aged males unless they have had way too much to drink. Consider the irony. Make no mistake, social drinking at legal age can be safe and fun. But the underlying message we seem to have embraced is that we need alcohol to have a really good time and that internal issues are solved externally. If we're bored, lonely, feeling empty, or blue, we can always head to the corner bar where the party never stops. We can take one pill or the other to feel better about ourselves, and the world in which we live. It's a much easier and more immediate approach than doing the personal introspection necessary to address emotional discomfort. Student activities directors are in a unique position to challenge and reshape the world-view of college students because they are central to so much of the student social life that takes place on campus—non-bar social life, I mean. Students can be taught a completely new way of understanding and being in the world. After all, isn't that what college is all about? When it comes to alcohol and drug issues on campus, however, the fundamental challenge administrators face is that students lack awareness of the long-term dangers of alcohol and substance abuse and don't want our help. When you're twenty years old, bullet proof and consider alcohol and drugs as part of your college experience, you don't want to be told you might need to rethink those 2-for-1 Jellybean shooters you've been enjoying on Wednesday Ladies nights. And please, less we be called un-American, we dare not even question the tradition of excessive drinking at Saturday afternoon or evening football games in the Fall. The real alcohol problem we must overcome is the prevailing culture of drinking on our campuses which is as present among alumni as it is students. Some folks just consider college drinking a rite of passage.
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This year's APCA conference will have some new programming elements and populations. In addition to the
normal contingency of campus activities departments and other assorted buyers and talentcoordinators, we will add enhanced programming elements for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's). HBCU campus
activities directors have been spearheading efforts over the past year for HBCU participation in the upcoming national conference in Atlanta, GA. 
