This presentation is a status update on what the Commission of Student Involvement has been up to over the past few months. It also highlights upcoming initiatives, potential changes, and ways to become involved with the commission. The Commission for Student Involvement is a part of ACPA - College Student Educators International. For more information on CSI and ACPA please refer to ACPA's website, www.myacpa.org.

1. State of CSI Webcast
Presenters:
Darren Pierre, Chair
Sarah Hermsmeier, Vice Chair
Mark Torrez, Leadership Education Chair
Keegan Mills, Directorate Chair

2. Agenda
• Overview of the Commission for Student Involvement
• Call to Action (CSI Task Force Report to Mid-Year
Meeting)
• The Commission Directorate
• Current Initiatives of the Commission
• Highlights from the Four Functional Areas
• Announcements
• Question & Answer

3. Purpose
The focus of the Commission is students in colleges and universities
and their environments. Efforts of the Commission are directed toward
a deeper understanding of the students, their characteristics,
purposes, attitudes, behavior, mores, campus activities and community
life as a basis for more effective planning of relevant programs for
students. A major emphasis of the Commission’s work is on the
integration of out of class activities of students on the campus and in
the larger community with the formal academic curriculum.
The college student’s total educational experience is seen as a potent
force for student development. The Commission fulfills its function not
only through convention programming but also through research and
ongoing task force efforts aimed at advancing and advocating the
development of more visible student organizations and activities
programs. Within the Association, the Commission provides an avenue
for involvement of anyone working with and/or interested in student
activities at post secondary institutions.

4. Core Values
1. Education and development of the total student
2. Diversity, multicultural competence and human dignity
3. Inclusiveness in and access to Association-wide involvement and decision-making
4. Free and open exchange of ideas in a context of mutual respect
5. Advancement and dissemination of knowledge relevant to college students and their
learning, and the effectiveness of student affairs professionals and their institutions.
6. Continuous professional development and personal growth of student affairs
professionals
7. Outreach and advocacy on issues of concern to students, student affairs professionals
and the higher education community, including affirmative action and other policy issues

5. Overview of CSI Leadership
Chair Directorate
Functional
Area Chairs (4) Vice Chair for CSI
Committees
Vice
Chairs (5)
Committees

6. Mid-Year Meeting
• Intersectionality
• Accountability
• Engagement
• Innovative Practice

7. Directorate Background
• 19 of 27 members of Directorate met during the
ACPA 12 Convention to review initial findings from
taskforce survey. Identified two major action items:
• Develop strategic plan to provide “roadmap” for
CSI Leadership Team
• Clarify/Re-define role and identity of Directorate
• Directorate met three times to discuss strategic
priorities for Commission

8. Current State
• Identified need to place priority on Directorate role and
identity
• An "Identity Workgroup” has been established to identify
criteria for serving on Directorate as well as function and role
of Directorate
• Identity Workgroup will put proposal forward in September
• Proposal will include:
• Revised title of Directorate
• Criteria for serving
• Selection of Directorate members
• Directorate function and role defined

9. CSI Vice Chair Initiatives
“We are fundamentally in a state of becoming” ~ Friedrich
Nietzsche
• This year, we are…
• …connecting around our intersecting identities as vice
chairs
• …considering new and innovative ways of being and doing
• …creating opportunities to engage our members year-round
• …communicating to maintain accountability to our
members

10. Connecting Around the
Intersections
• cohort now supported by the Vice Chair of the CSI
• a connection with one another and Functional
Area Chairs

11. Considering Innovative Ways of Being
• evolving positions to be year-round role (June-
June)
• transition toward working job descriptions
• development of finance & development position
• expansion of research & assessment initiatives

12. Creating Opportunities to Engage Our Members
• open dialogue between members and
Commission
• member education
• suggestion box

13. Creating Opportunities to Engage Our Members
establishment of volunteer roles and committees
• allocations (by appointment only) elections (shermsmeier@uky.edu)
• membership (tkermiet@vt.edu) programs (mgilsbac@uvm.edu)
• publications (nlaird@uky.edu) research (matt.garrett@emory.edu)
• technology (justin.m.sipes@gmail.com)
tracking volunteers through new technologies
• Plug Me In Form
• volunteer tracking

14. Communicating to Maintain Accountability
• new financial procedures increase transparency
• new strategies streamline communications
• Happenings, Newsletter, Interchange
• implementing new technologies as a team
• Google+, MailChimp, Webcasts
• exploring a new resource management system

15. CSI Functional Area Priorities
• Book Club
• Student Involvement Book Club
• Bi-monthly rotation
• Launch in early fall
• E-Series
• Monthly webcast
• Emphasis on leadership, social justice, and CAS
Standards
• Launch in August
For more information email mark.torrez@emory.edu

16. Functional Area Committee Development
• Book Club Committee: mark.torrez@emory.edu
• Convention Committee: jdean15@lsu.edu
• Research & Resources Committee:
jtabacchi@pointpark.edu &
D.BushScott@neu.edu

17. Functional Area Happenings
Student Act. & Orgs. jtabacchi@pointpark.edu
Fraternity & Sorority Life D.BushScott@neu.edu
Leadership Education mark.torrez@emory.edu
Comm. Service/Service-Learning jdean15@lsu.edu

18. Announcements
• Service-Learning Symposium: December 5-7,
2012 – more information forthcoming.
• Leadership Educators Institute: December 9-11,
2012. Registration is now open:
http://www.naspa.org/programs/lei/registration.cfm
• Be a Convention program reviewer
mgilsbac@uvm.edu
• Publications editor nlaird@uga.edu

19. Questions
Darren Pierre –depierre@uga.edu
Sarah Hermsmeier –shermsmerier@uky.edu
Mark Torrez –mark.torrez@emory.edu
Keegan Mills- kcmills@usfca.edu