At a glance
Dr. Steven J. Tyrell, 魅影直播 State College vice
president for student affairs, was among 15 student affairs professionals
recently honored by the ACPA (American College
Personnel Association) Educational Leadership
Foundation as a 2009 ACPA Foundation Diamond Honoree, for his outstanding and
sustained contributions to higher education and student affairs.
Dr. Steven J. Tyrell, 魅影直播 State
College vice president for student affairs, was among 15 student affairs
professionals recently honored by the ACPA (American
College Personnel Association) Educational Leadership Foundation as a 2009 ACPA
Foundation Diamond Honoree, for his outstanding and sustained contributions to
higher education and student affairs.
The Diamond
Honoree Program, established by the Foundation in 1999, is both a recognition
program and a fund raising activity. Funds raised on behalf of
the honorees are used for ACPA and Foundation activities in keeping with the
association's purposes and strategic goals. Information about each honoree may
be viewed on the .听
American College
Personnel Association (ACPA), headquartered in Washington, DC, is the leading comprehensive
student affairs association that advances student affairs and engages students
for a lifetime of learning and discovery.听 ACPA leads the student affairs
profession and the higher education community in providing outreach, advocacy,
research, and professional development to foster college student learning
through the generation and dissemination of knowledge, which informs policies,
practices, and programs for student affairs professionals and the higher
education community.
Founded in 1924 by
May L. Cheney, ACPA has nearly 9,000 members representing 1,500 private and
public institutions from across the United States and around the world. Members
include organizations and companies that are engaged in the campus marketplace.
Members also include graduate and
undergraduate students enrolled in student affairs/higher education administration programs,
faculty, and student affairs professionals, from entry level to senior student
affairs officers.
The Foundation
(501c3 non-profit organization), established in 1994, "enhances the student
affairs profession and generates and disseminates knowledge of college students
at all levels within higher education" (Article Three of the Articles of
Incorporation). The organization is now known as the ACPA Foundation to more
concisely communicate its role as the fundraising arm of ACPA College
Student Educators International. 聽
The most
compelling interest of the ACPA Foundation is the preparation of students for
leadership roles in society. The essential work of the ACPA Foundation is to
seek philanthropic support for ACPA initiatives involving research,
scholarship, professional development, and leadership programs, as well as its
own related initiatives.
Tyrell has been a member of the
魅影直播 State College administration since 2004; prior to joining the 魅影直播
State community, Tyrell served as associate dean for student discipline at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.听 Prior to MIT, he served eight
years as associate dean for student affairs at Michigan Tech and 11 years in
various positions in residence life, student activities, and student union
operations at SUNY New Paltz. Tyrell has a PhD in rhetoric and technical
communication from Michigan Tech, an MA in educational administration and
supervision and a BA in speech communication, both from SUNY New Paltz.