Our Mission
The mission of the Undergraduate Scholars Program Administrators Association (USPAA) is to foster communication, collegiality, and cooperation among higher education professionals involved or interested in programs that provide scholarship and/or programmatic enrichment to high-achieving college students.
History
2006
Beginning in 2006, several scholars program administrators began an informal network for collegial idea sharing, support, and research into academically high-achieving college student leaders.
2007
Clemson University in South Carolina hosted the first meeting of these administrators in June 2007; that same year, the administrators unofficially adopted the name Undergraduate Scholars Program Administrators’ Association, or USPAA.
2009
The administrators met again in 2008 at North Carolina State University. In 2009, at the University of Texas at Dallas, USPAA approved the first board of directors and approved the first by-laws.
PRESENT
USPAA continues to host an annual conference for administrators and has also added the annual Scholar Summit, a conference for students within the Scholars programs.