The 2010 Convention Program Planning Team has identified three critical issues that we believe are significantly affecting higher education and our work as student affairs educators. We invite program proposals that address these critical issues, and encourage you to address these issues within the framework of our Convention theme.

Global Citizenship: Creating services and learning opportunities for students to understand themselves as citizens of their communities and the world; understanding how our day-to-day decisions affect people around the world; engaging in practices that promote social justice and strong communities; developing practices that lead to the implementation of institutionally-sustainable programs; increasing our cultural competence as individuals and student educators.

Serving Veterans: Increasing our capacity to work with growing numbers of veterans; best practices for recruiting and retaining veterans and active-service personnel; recognizing and identifying means to address the challenges veterans face in the higher education environment; understanding and developing the skills necessary to meet veterans' personal, social and educational needs.

Strategic Partnerships: Consideration of the ways in which the economic situation has affected various aspects of campus life; innovative practices for managing and responding to economic challenges; meaningful partnerships with other associations and companies, aligning services, programs and innovative models of student success; Student Affairs staff involvement in fund-raising and development; helping cultivate a culture of giving, seeing crises as opportunity in the midst of economic downturn.

Critical Issues developed by the 2010 ACPA Convention Program Planning Team based on the ACPA President's Platform/Agenda.