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CLT Magazine | SPRING 2022
APCA National Campus Activites Conference APCA to Hold In-Person 2022 National Conference in Hershey, PA! The APCA 2022 National Conference will be held on March 24-27 in Hershey, PA at the Hershey Lodge Resort. APCA will host the event IN PERSON. Schools will be able to attend in person or use our virtual platform to participate in real time from their campuses. The theme of this year’s national conference is Sweet Deals for Student Engagement! The conference will focus on new best practices resulting from our collective experiences over the last academic year and mentoring new professionals to carry the torch of effective student engagement into the future. 2020/2021 was the most challenging time in the history of Student Life programming. The advent of virtual programming has been both a blessing and a curse for our campus staff members. Innovative programming for online populations has been plagued by technical and logistical issues, despite the best efforts of dedicated student life professionals. Throughout the process, one thing has become very apparent; everyone is becoming strained by online fatigue. Student connections are best made through in-person, connective events that bring us together. Thankfully, those in-person events seem much closer to safely happening again than they have seemed for a long, long while.
The 2022 APCA National Campus Activities Planning Conference will still feature the APCA core conference elements: Showcases, Exhibit Halls, Cooperative Buying, and Educational Sessions. There will be ample opportunity to find talent and receive massive savings for your budgets to justify the expense of attendance through our Cooperative Buying program. Showcases / Cooperative Buying Live Showcases (comedy, music, magic, spoken word, leadership speakers, cultural acts, novelties, esports, and much more!), in-person and virtual engagement, and new, more affordable programming will be featured at the National Conference! The Showcases will also demonstrate CDC compliant audience distancing and sanitizing measures to keep attendees at the events and on their campuses safe. All schools attending the event will be able to participate in the APCA Cooperative Buying process via our synchronized in-person and virtual Cooperative Buying sessions. No matter how big or small your programming budget may be, APCA schools save thousands of dollars on quality programming for their campuses. Working together in Cooperative Buying is the fun, smart, safe way to bring events and activities to your student body.
