The California College Personnel Association was chartered on March 17th, 1970 as a chapter of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). This year we are leveraging our annual institute to celebrate our 50th Anniversary in service to professionals in the state of California. CCPA was recently honored with an anniversary resolution at the 2020 ACPA National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

Our chapter has served higher education administrators by engaging professionals in important conversations about the landscape of higher education, focusing on developing ourselves as practitioners in order to best serve our students and their ever-changing needs. Our chapter includes over 600 higher ed practitioners state-wide, and is connected to an international organization serving over 6000 members world-wide. 

CCPA is a premier student affairs association in California, and as an Internal Chapter of ACPA, membership brings increased benefits. Professional development is vital to keeping student affairs and student service professionals current on trends and issues throughout higher education, CCPA is dedicated to networking and distributing knowledge to professionals  which promotes a greater services to students  of California. 

CCPA strives to bring together college and university professionals, faculty, and graduate students for professional development, networking opportunities, leadership experience, and information on the latest trends and issues in our field.

Please follow this ACPA/CCPA membership link and choose “Chapter Only” membership to join CCPA at a low, accessible rate. California-based ACPA members receive CCPA membership as part of their ACPA membership benefits. 

To stay informed about day-to-day happenings in California higher education, we invite you to like the CCPA Facebook page and join the CCPA Facebook group for California job postings and colleague dialogue. You can also connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter (@CCPA_Updates).

ACPA will direct resources, energy, and time toward addressing racial justice in student affairs and higher education around the world. Our lens is intersectional, intentional, and directed. The focus is on reducing the oppression of communities of color at the intersections of their identities, knowing that all oppressions are linked and that the work is ongoing. Our goal is to provide leading research and scholarship; tools for personal, professional, and career development; and innovative praxis opportunities for members that will actively inform and reshape higher education. We move toward this goal knowing that the roles and daily tasks of our jobs are important to the functioning of colleges and universities. We also know that racial justice and the tasks of our jobs do not sit as dichotomous poles. Racial justice is at our core; it underlies the work we each must do every day, in every way we can.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE & DECOLONIZATION HERE