University of Central Arkansas

The University of Central Arkansas (UCA) recently competed with three other regional schools for the Southwest Association of College and University Housing Officers' Frank Cloud Award of Excellence and came away with top honors. Several UCA students in the College Student Personnel Services and Administration masters program were a part of this nomination and have graduate assistantships within the SYE Program. More information can be found here.

Four University of Central Arkansas (UCA) graduate students placed third out of fifty other teams in the annual StudentAffairs.com Virtual Case Study Competition. These students were second-year Andrew Wiemer and first-years Amanda Doyle, Danny Glassmann, and Marianne Price. StudentAffairs.com is a comprehensive index of Internet resources for college student affairs professionals, offering information on and links to over six hundred listservs and websites. The competition was made up of master level students in student personnel administration and/or counseling graduate programs. The teams were allowed to be three or four students and had to be from the same institution. The case study focused on some aspect of technology and its relation to student affairs. This year that focus was on Facebook. Each team had only two weeks to put together a presentation answering the case study and submit it for review. For third place, each student received fifty-dollars and a plaque that was mailed to the graduate program. For more information about the case study, click here.

Three University of Central Arkansas graduate students fared well in a recent case study competition at the recent Southern Association of College Student Affairs (SACSA) conference in South Carolina. SACSA is a regional professional organization for individuals engaged in college student affairs work and has members from 15 southern states and the District of Columbia. At this year's conference, Amanda Doyle, Danny Glassmann, and Marianne Price, students in the CSPA program, formed a team and came away with a third place finish. Read the full story here.