August 21, 2023
Reimagining the Use of Strengths
Our Commitment and Strategic Focus
COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
NASPA affirms the importance and centrality of the values of equity, inclusion, and social justice to student affairs professionals, both in their daily lives and in their work on behalf of and with students and other constituents. NASPA believes that equity, inclusion, and social justice require continual pursuits to ensure that members from all identities, backgrounds, abilities, and belief systems have access, voice, acknowledgement, and opportunities to participate at all levels within the Association and the profession. Additionally, NASPA strives to ensure that our membership, leadership, scholarship, and programming are reflective of these values, and through our standards of professional practice we hold our members and the Association accountable to these principles in our work on behalf of the profession.
Approved by NASPA Board of Directors March 2016
NASPA STRATEGIC PLAN
Equity, justice, and civic engagement are prominent elements of the 2019-2024 NASPA Strategic Plan, which aims to fulfill the promise of higher education through advocacy for student success, equity, inclusion, and social justice, research and scholarship, and professional development and engagement.
Important Initiatives
Anti-DEI Legislation Resources
NASPA has created a page to share resources and strategies, track legislation, solicit input, and provide opportunities to gather and learn. Visit here for regular updates and information.
Indigenous Peoples
Learn more here about NASPA's collaborative work to repair and re-center our relationships with our Indigenous Peoples community.
First-generation Students
Today, one-third of currently enrolled undergraduate students identify as first-generation, approximately 5 Million students. Only 27% complete a bachelor’s degree in four years, significantly lower than continuing-generation peers. Learn more about the Center for First-generation Student Success to advance your institution's initiatives.
Latest Updates
Learn with Us
As student affairs educators, we know the value of truly inclusive, equitable, and just learning environments that cultivate critical thinking, identity exploration and expression, and capacity for change. NASPA’s signature offerings - our conferences, institutes, journals, and publications - integrate innovative practice and research that speak to intersectional lives and build capacity to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Conferences, Institutes, and Programs
Issues of equity, inclusion, justice, and civic action are integrated across NASPA's professional development offerings. In addition, we also provide dedicated spaces for deeper exploration of these issues, as well as for community-building and professional pathway development.
NASPA Affinity Pathways Programs
Journals and Publications
Take Action
We understand NASPA’s platform to shape the ways that higher education recognizes, challenges, and dismantles barriers to student and staff access and success. Learn more about NASPA’s equity-centered advocacy and action.
NASPA Statements
Policy and Advocacy
Alongside institutional policy, local, state, and federal legislation affects the practice of higher education professionals every day in their work to educate students and create more equitable communities. NASPA's Policy and Advocacy focus area, curated by our research and policy team and guided by the Association’s Public Policy Agenda, serves the need for timely information and analyses related to emerging policy. Learn more here.
We welcome your input about the legislative activity and topical issues that affect you, so that NASPA can work nimbly to respond to needs in an evolving policy atmosphere. Please add your voice using the Policy Engagement Form.
