ACPA

I'm heading to ACPA tomorrow morning. Our flight leaves at 6:45 am, so I should really be in bed by now...but as always, I left packing and cleaning the apartment to the last minute.

As I've mentioned earlier, I'm not going through Placement this year. I'm starting to question if that was a good decision because I'm not hearing back from any of the institutions I've applied for and I wonder if they'd give me more of a priority if I was going through placement. But then again, I just really didn't want to spend the money and I'm trying to do a pretty selective search. My friends keep telling me that it'll all work out in the end and I want to believe that, but it's hard sometimes.

But I've decided that I'm not going to let job searching stress me out while I'm at ACPA. I'm just going to have fun and make the most of the convention experience. I'm excited that I'll actually be able to make it to commission meetings and programming sessions.

And I'm really interested in going to the meeting about the NASPA and ACPA Unification. What are everyone's thoughts on the unification?
I think it'd be great. I never understood why we need to have two organizations. I realize both of them have different histories and the leadership doesn't agree on some things; but shouldn't we, as Student Affairs professionals, know how to collaborate and how to come up with some compromises? And how much easier would it be for new professionals (or any professionals really) if they could just become a member of ONE organization? Financially it makes sense; it'd give us a stronger voice as a profession. I really can't see any negative aspects of this unification.