ACPA/NASPA Competencies 

The ACPA and NASPA are two higher education organizations that set out to create a standard for different areas of the student affairs field. They released their original document that included 10 different competency areas in 2009. In 2010, they updated their competencies to clarify particular areas before being approved in 2015. The 10 competencies are as follows: Personal & Ethical Foundations (PEF), Values, Philosophy & History (VPH), Law, Policy, & Governance (LPG), Assessment, Evaluation, & Research (AER), Organizational & Human Resources (OHR), Leadership (LEAD), Social Justice & Inclusion (SJI), Technology (TECH), Student Learning & Development (SLD), and Advising & Supporting (A/S). Each of these fields is crucial to the role of a student affairs professional. Below is the graphic used by the ACPA and NASPA to help learners have a conceptual understanding of each of the 10 different competencies and how they relate to each other. Furthermore, it shows three different levels that any person can be at in their student affairs journey: Foundational, Intermediate, and Advanced. Student Affairs professionals are encouraged to self-evaluate their level of mastery at each level to learn their "glow" and "grow" areas in the profession (ACPA & NASPA, 2015, p. 4).