Our Purpose
- To organize a cohesive professional body in order to promote more effective work in the field of student personnel administrators
- To interpret student personnel work to all college administrators and college faculties so that the student personnel point of view will permeate the entire campus
- To promote programs and plans that will benefit all student personnel workers
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history of WVASPA |
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Student Affairs is vital to student learning and development. Student affairs professionals ensure that students have the support, resources, and skills necessary to be successful in and out of the classroom. WVASPA supports student affairs professionals throughout the state by providing affordable, high quality professional development at our annual conference, sharing best practices for student success, and serving as a voice for WV student affairs.
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WVASPA began as an informal group of student personnel professionals. Deans of students, residence life staff, etc., started meeting together during the late '50's to discuss problems of mutual concern in the student affairs field. In March 1960, this group created a formal organization at West Virginia University, and a constitution was adopted. The organization was called Student/Personnel Administrators of West Virginia Colleges and Universities (SPAWVCU).
Membership was open to all persons responsible for student personnel services in colleges and universities of West Virginia. At that first formal meeting, officers elected were Betty Boyd, president (WVU), Stella Cooksey, vice-president (Morris Harvey), Wayne Martin, sec./treas. (Fairmont State). Over the years the name of the organization has been changed several times, but it has retained the flavor of the original purpose. |