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Dr. Kristen Nakamura Wallitsch, PhD

Dr. Kristen Wallitsch brings more than fifteen years of higher education experience in the areas of student success, retention, academic support services, academic advising, study abroad, and international learning and serves as the Dean of Student Success & International Programs at Bellarmine University in Louisville Kentucky. Dr. Wallitsch leads student success efforts across the university and provides leadership and oversight for the Student Success Center.

Dr. Wallitsch is a higher education scholar whose research interests include student learning outcomes assessment, first-generation college students, curriculum design, social justice, and the international student experience. Dr. Wallitsch earned her Ph.D. in Studies in Higher Education from the University of Kentucky (2014), her M.A.Ed. (2006), and B.A. in Elementary and Special Education (2000), are both from Bellarmine. She received a Japanese Ministry of Education Dissertation Research Fellowship, spending two years at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, drafting policy recommendations for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on US-Japan Education Cooperation for Global Issues. Dr. Wallitsch won two awards for her work with the university’s predictive analytics model, Award for Innovative Academic Support Initiative (ACPA College Student Educators International) and the NCLCA (National College Learning Center Association) Award for Innovation. She also won the Assessment Champion Award from the OSU Center for the Study of Student Life for her assessment work in Student Success at Bellarmine.

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Founded in 1994 during the presidency of Charles Schroeder, the purpose of the ACPA Educational Leadership Foundation (501c3 non-profit organization) is “to enhance the student affairs profession and to generate and disseminate 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.

The Mission - The ACPA Foundation exists to support the priorities and activities of ACPA by raising funds and developing resources that help the Association fulfill its mission. 

The Vision - The ACPA Foundation will develop sufficient assets to effectively and sustainably fund ACPA’s efforts to provide excellent professional development opportunities to members, advance knowledge in the field, and support the transformative effect of education in the lives of college students.

In order to fulfill its purpose and mission, the Foundation invites members and non-members alike to provide philanthropic support for ACPA's vital initiatives involving research, scholarship, professional development and leadership program.