Ximena Zúñiga Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from American College Personnel Association

Ximena Zúñiga will be recognized with the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) - College Student Educators International Lifetime Achievement Award at the ACPA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 3.

The ACPA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes individuals who have more than two decades of extraordinary long-term involvement and service to the field of student affairs and/or higher education over an extended period of time. ACPA has nearly 7,500 members representing 1,200 private and public institutions from across the U.S. and around the world.

Zúñiga, professor of social justice education in the College of Education, is a leader on social justice issues in higher education and student affairs, and one of the foremost scholars on intergroup dialogue (IGD). She co-developed the intergroup dialogue educational model at the University of Michigan in the 1980s, and has continued researching, teaching and preparing IGD facilitators nationally and internationally. To date, Dr. Zúñiga has written or co-authored more than 40 books, chapters and articles.

In addition to receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, Zúñiga has been named an ACPA Senior Scholar for a five-year term beginning in 2020. ACPA Senior Scholars represent the best of engaged scholarship relevant to student affairs work in higher education. Scholars are senior members of the profession who have made exemplary and sustained contributions to ACPA’s mission of generating and disseminating knowledge and who have the commitment to further advance research and theory.