Higher Education Administration Student Professional Association

Dr. Juan Gonzalez and his wife Sonia have graciously opened their home for the first HEASPA potluck of the year! Dr. Gonzalez is the Vice-President for Student Affairs and teaches the College Student Personnel course in our department. All students, faculty, staff, alumni and their families of the Higher Education Administration department are invited to attend.

Potluck Dinner
Friday, September 10 – 6:30PM
Items you can bring for the dinner include: Appetizers, Main Dish, Fruit/Vegetables, Dessert, Drinks

Please RSVP Online through the Google Document: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AozcoqS82E3TdEdId0U0bk1BM3Vsa21SQnZVdHFfOEE&hl=en#gid=0

Good afternoon!

We are looking for current students, alumni, staff and faculty associated with HEASPA to blog on our new website – http://blogs.utexas.edu/heaspa Bloggers are welcome to write about higher education topics, your research, job postings, seminars/conferences, as well as happenings around campus and Austin. People interested in blogging will be welcome to blog as often or as little as you like!

Please email me (emeisell@gmail.com) with your UTEID and name, and I will set you up on the website and email you instructions on how to use WordPress.

Hope you all decide to blog!
-Evelyn

Has it been awhile since you’ve written a paper?  Visit the Sanger Learning Center (Located on the 3rd floor of the Jester Center) to sign up for your 5 free writing tutor sessions.  Writing consultants help students become a better writer through one on one development. http://www.lifelearning.utexas.edu/l_writingconsults.html

The Sanger Center also provides online learning handouts focused on effective reading, time management and writing skills.  http://www.lifelearning.utexas.edu/l_handouts.html#ReadingWriting

Other services for graduate students can be found here:  http://www.lifelearning.utexas.edu/l_graduateschool.html

Best of luck in the new semester!

Doug Garrard is Senior Associate Dean for the Office of the Dean of Students at the University of Texas at Austin.  His portfolio includes Student Activities and Leadership Development, New Student Services, Greek Life and Intercultural Education, as well as supporting all programs and functions of the Dean’s office.  Dr. Garrard has over twenty-five years of student affairs experience.  He is currently past president of the Southwest Association of College and University Housing Officers, ending a one-year term as president of the association.  He earned a doctorate and masters degree in higher educational administration at the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelors of science from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Dr. Garrard has served as a guest lecturer in various higher education courses and this is his first year serving on the faculty for the College of Education. Please join the HEASPA community in welcoming Dr. Doug Garrard.

The 2011 NASPA Annual Conference convenes in the city of Philadelphia, whose founding legacy of enacted courage and wisdom continues to inspire at a time when the need for leadership on our campuses, in this country, and in the world has never been so compelling.

Call for Programs-2011 NASPA Conference
2011 NASPA Annual Conference
March 12th-16th
Philadelphia, PA
Theme: “Educating for Lives of Purpose”

Program proposal submissions are due Friday, September 3rd.

Visit http://naspa.org/conf/cfp/default.cfm to learn more about the Call for Programs or to submit a program. The link to the NASPA Annual Conference website is http://naspa.org/conf/default.cfm (more…)

Introduction to UT Libraries: Short class orients new users
Description: Learn about the libraries on campus and the services and research resources available. This class is designed for new users of the libraries, and includes a brief introduction to the library catalog and databases.
Time: Wednesday, August 25 1-2 p.m.
Location: Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL), Room 1.124
Admission: Free and open to the public
URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/instruction/classes

RecSports announces Free Preview Week
Description: New to campus or to RecSports? Free Preview Week is the perfect time to explore RecSports. Bring your UT ID and enjoy free access to all RecSports facilities, the climbing wall in Gregory Gym and all group exercise classes, including TeXercise classes, group cycling classes and aqua classes. Find hours and schedules online at http://www.utrecsports.org.
Time: Aug. 25-31, all-day event
Location: Gregory Gym (GRE)
Admission: Free entry with UT ID
URL: http://www.utrecsports.org

The Graduate Student Assembly invites incoming and returning graduate students to attend the annual GSA BBQ and Information Fair to be held on the first day of school, August 25th.  Come join your fellow graduate students in kicking off the new school year with free barbecue (a vegetarian option will also be available). Also, please don’t forget to check out the information fair portion of the event, where on-campus organizations will be represented. All graduate and professional students are invited. Please bring your student ID for entry.

GSA BBQ
Location:  Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on San Jacinto
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM -7:30 PM

ORIENTATION: As many of you know, Saturday (August 21) is orientation for new students. In order to properly welcome our new classmates to the program, we will be heading over to Dog and Duck after orientation ends at 3pm. We hope that many of you will be able to make it to not only welcome the new members of our program, but also to get together and catch up on summer adventures.

POTLUCK: Dr. Juan Gonzalez, Vice President for Student Affairs, has once again been kind enough to invite everyone over to his house for the famous potluck. Those who attended last year had a great time, and hopefully we can have a good turnout this year. The date for the potluck will be Friday, September 10. An email with details about this event will be sent out in the next couple weeks.

PARTNERSHIPS: This year we are working to partner HEASPA with our two on campus professional associations (APSA and ACA) and the Office of the Dean of Students. We are making great progress on this, and hope that our working with these two organizations and DoS will provide more professional opportunities for students. To that end, we will be co-hosting a happy hour with APSA on Tuesday, September 21 from 5-8 at Austin’s Pizza on the Drag (2324 Guadalupe). Look out for an email about this event closer to the date. For more information on joining these two professional organizations, please visit their websites:

Academic Counselors Association

Association of Professionals in Student Affairs

NEW SITE: Here you will find the HEASPA calendar, postings from members, announcements about events and much more. If you are interested in blogging for HEASPA, please email Evelyn Meisell (emeisell@gmail.com).

PLANNING COMMITTEE: Make sure to thank the HEASPA planning committee (Beth Bukoski, Jaromir Sedlar, Katie Pritchett), who have helped to create ideas and plan events for the upcoming year. If you have any thoughts or suggestions for HEASPA, please feel free to contact any of the committee members.

As we have many new students in the program who are new to Austin, HEASPA would like to present you with some great touristy and non-touristy things to do in the city.  Claudia Prieto (CUSPA Master’s graduate 2009) created this list of fun things to do in Austin for the international students in the McCombs School of Business.  Enjoy! (more…)