Higher Education Administration Student Professional Association

When: Friday, May 17th, 2013
Time: 4- 6pm
Where: The Quadrangle Room at the Texas Union

Click here for the invitation link

If you are graduating, please e-mail HEASPAsocial@gmail.com with details about your post-grad plans and any awards/recognitions that you received during the year.

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The Higher Education Administration Program’s award applications are due at noon TOMORROW!

Download the application here: http://edadmin.edb.utexas.edu/2013_HEAP_Awards.docx

GRADUATE STUDENT & ALUMNI AWARDS

 The Higher Education Administration program at The University of Texas at Austin proudly invites applications for three new awards that recognize student and alumni excellence. We invite applications for two prestigious graduate student awards and one alumni award meant to honor academic and service excellence within our scholarly and professional community. The application deadline is May 3^rd, 2013.

The Dr. Sharon H. Justice Student Leadership Award and the Dr. Bill Lasher Doctoral Student Excellence Award will annually recognize outstanding scholarship and professionalism by graduate students in our Higher Education Administration program. A third award, the Dr. V. Ray Cardozier Alumni Excellence Award will periodically recognize a graduate of the Higher Education Administration doctoral program.

AWARD DESCRIPTIONS

The Dr. Sharon H. Justice Student Leadership Award will be awarded annually to an outstanding Master’s student in the College & University Student Personnel Administration program. Dr. Justice has served the University for many years in the capacity of Dean of Students as well as an adjunct faculty member within our master’s program. Her contributions to our University are innumerable, as she has positively touched the lives of countless undergraduate and graduate students as well as student affairs professionals across the country. Named to honor her legacy, this award will recognize an individual who embodies the leadership and service to the program and the University that Dr. Justice has demonstrated throughout the years.

The Dr. Bill Lasher Doctoral Student Excellence Award will be awarded annually to an outstanding doctoral student in the Higher Education Administration program. Dr. Lasher joined the faculty of our program in the early 1990’s while still serving the University in a variety of administrative leadership roles. His exemplary legacy as a practitioner and nationally-recognized leader in institutional research helped to launch the program’s stature. He also served admirably as the program head for over a decade, ushering a period of great expansion and building up the program to what it is today. To honor his legacy, this award will recognize a doctoral student who has demonstrated research, academic, and teaching excellence as well as leadership and service.

The Dr. V. Ray Cardozier Alumni Excellence Award will be awarded periodically to a graduate from the Higher Education Administration doctoral program. In 1983, Dr. Cardozier joined the Department of Educational Administration as the first full-time faculty member specializing in higher education administration. To recognize and honor his important legacy as the de facto founder of our doctoral program, we have established this award to recognize a graduate that has recently demonstrated excellence in scholarly/professional work. Nominees for this award will be accepted on an ad hoc or periodic basis (no more than once per year).

For more information about these awards contact Linda Overton (Linda.Overton@austin.utexas.edu).

Fundraising & Development Concentration Info Session
Friday, April 5, 12-1 pm @ SZB 364
RSVP to jenniferwang@austin.utexas.edu

CUSPA Coffee Chat with Colleagues
Friday, April 5, 2-3:30 pm @ the Graduate Student Lounge (SAC 3.102)
RSVP to jenniferwang@austin.utexas.edu

Internship Informational Session for master’s students
Friday, April 12, 12-1 pm @ SZB 376
RSVP: http://doodle.com/bhmrvnewef3u7fm6

How to Use Data from the National Center for Education Statistics
Wednesday, April 10, 12- 1:30pm @ SZB 364
RSVP to kyelee@utexas.edu

Happy Fall everyone!  It’s been a long month, but we’re nearly a third of the way through the fall semester!  Here’s what has been going on while we have been terrible bloggers:

HEASPA Fundraiser Success! Thanks to all of you coming out to Austin’s Pizza, we managed to raise $108 to spend on professional development events for the rest of the year.  Thank you all so much for your time and generosity, and thanks again to Austin’s Pizza!

This Thursday (September 27), find out more about the inner workings of UT and its plans for the year at President Powers’ State of the University Address.  The speech will be held in the B. Iden Payne Theater (in the Winship Building) at 4pm.

Register for the annual Texas Association of College and University Personnel Administrators 2012 Conference!  The conference will be held October 14-16 in San Antonio.  Click http://tacuspa.camp8.org/registration for more details about registration and events.

And finally, let off some steam with our HEASPA crew at karaoke this Thursday!  We’ll be at Rusty’s on 7th street starting at around 9:30 pm.  Hope to see you there!

And we promise to do a better job of keeping this dang thing updated!

Orientation is nearly upon us!  Join the HEASPA officers and faculty for orientation to the Higher Education Administration program on Saturday, August 25th!  Check out the schedule below:

12:45pm     Check-In

1:00pm      Welcome & Introductions

2:00pm      HEASPA & GSA Introductions

2:30pm      Guided Tour of the Sanchez Building

3:00pm      Academic Requirements & Student/Faculty Panel

4:00pm      Wrap-Up

After the orientation, please join us for some socializing at Austin’s Pizza on Guadalupe!  We’ll be holding a fundraiser there, and 15% of each order will go to HEASPA so that we can hold professional development events and other gatherings throughout the year.  If you can’t stay, that’s okay!  The profit-sharing counts for carry-out orders too.  So come in, sit down and get to know the new cohort, or at the very least stop by and get some yummy pizza for dinner!  It’s a win-win!  See you Saturday!

Another year, another awesome cohort!  Join us in welcoming the newest cohort to the Higher Education Administration Program!

Jared Hopper- University of Texas at Austin, University of Granada

Jessica Sitler- Appalachian State University

Kellie Bennett- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ciera Campbell- University of Texas at Austin

Margaret McCullers- Mississippi State University, University of Georgia

Rachel Roberson- Colorado State University

Lizeth Salinas- St. Edwards University

Kelsey Edge- University of Central Florida

Anthony Heaven- Stillman College

Elizabeth Pack- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kerry Biechman- Virginia Tech

Amina Benchouia- University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Austin Community College

Dana Harada- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, College of William & Mary

Chelsea Drake- University of Missouri

Sunny Korie- University of Florida, Tallahassee Community College

Rebecca Putter- New York University

Abby Heimann- Ohio State University

Jorge Segovia- University of Texas at Austin

Orientation runs from 1-4pm on Saturday, August 25th, and we’ll be ending the evening with a HEASPA fundraiser at Austin’s Pizza!  Come out to support HEASPA and our new cohort!

Graduation is just around the corner, and HEASPA is so excited to send off the 2012 graduates in style. Please join us in celebrating the graduation of our Class of 2012 HEASPA masters and doctoral candidates!  Come socialize with our fantastic colleagues as we wish them well in the next chapter of their lives.  Graduates are encouraged to bring friends and family!

This event is an opportunity for your family and friends to mix and mingle with your EDA colleagues, including students, faculty, and staff. In addition, we will be awarding the two new Higher Ed Admin Awards, the Sharon H. Justice Leadership Award and the WIlliam Lasher Doctoral Excellence Award.  We hope you make plans to attend whether or not your are graduating since it will be a great networking opportunity in a fun and relaxed environment among friends and higher ed family!

The event will be on Friday, May 18th from 4-6pm in the Student Activities Center 2.412, North Ballroom. You can RSVP to event via the online invitation found here. Light refreshments will be served.

Congratulations to our graduates!