MINNESOTA COLLEGE PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION:

The Minnesota College Personnel Association (MCPA) was chartered in 1969 as a state division of the American College Personnel Association. It was also a division of the Minnesota Personnel and Guidance Association.

The association sought to provide state leadership of college student personnel workers in promoting programs in guidance, counseling, and student personnel practices. It worked for the development and maintenance of professional standards, encouraged research and experimentation, and provided opportunities for the discussion and exchange of ideas among professional college student personnel workers: counselors, academic advisors, admissions officers, campus ministers, career planning professionals, financial aid officers, placement officers, activity directors, health service professionals, higher education faculty, graduate students, student affairs deans, and others. Members included staff from University of Minnesota campuses, state universities, community colleges, private colleges, and vocational schools and technical colleges.

The association offered its members conferences and workshops on such topics as retention, wellness and stress management, chemical abuse, sexual sensitization and desensitization, human development, financial aid, innovations in counseling, financial management for administrators in higher education, and values and multicultural concerns in higher education. It published a journal and a newsletter.

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Includes bylaws, minutes, unpublished annual reports, financial records, conference materials, membership lists, position descriptions, summaries of staff activities, and correspondence and miscellaneous papers. There is information about MCPA finances, workshops and conventions, committee appointments, and publication of the MCPA Journal; American College Personnel Association (ACPA) business; the Minnesota Personnel and Guidance Association; and issues facing the personnel and guidance profession. Correspondents include MCPA officials and staff, especially presidents Richard M. Clugston and Linda Schrempp Alberg, and Journal editor Beverly Johnk; ACPA officials; and personnel and guidance professionals from throughout the United States.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here.] Minnesota College Personnel Association Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 13,767; 13,864; 14,077; 14,442; 15,308

Processing Information:

Processed by: Kathryn A. Johnson, 1986-1991 and David B. Peterson, July 1998

Catalog ID number: 990017295030104294

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Consult the catalog for the locations of other Minnesota College Personnel Association materials, which are found in a variety of formats in various Minnesota Historical Society collections.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

College administrators -- Minnesota.

College personnel management -- Minnesota.

Counseling in higher education -- Minnesota.

Education, Higher -- Minnesota.

Trade and professional associations -- Minnesota.

Organizations:

American College Personnel Association.

Minnesota Personnel and Guidance Association.

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