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In Canada, the national association representing student affairs professionals at post-secondary institutions is known as CACUSS or Canadian Association of College and University Student Services. CACUSS provides professional development opportunities, special projects grants and a professional magazine to its members known as Communiqué. While CACUSS represents a wide range of professionals in student affairs, more specified associations exist across the country by profession or province such as OACUHO for Ontario Housing professionals, and AACUSS representing Atlantic student services professionals.

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Professional Development
A multitude of resources are developed by CACUSS to provide development opportunities to help advance their members such as awards and grants, job postings, and a competency model.

CACUSS hosts an Annual Conference as well as regional workshops providing professional development opportunities for members and non-member on a variety of topics of interest.

CACUSS provides a network of various communities of practice to support members from a variety of backgrounds within student affairs. These networks provide members the opportunity to discuss challenges, share ideas and learn from each other in less formal settings. Among these networks include Post-Secondary Student Counselling, Graduate student networks, and accessibility and inclusion.

Communiqué is the association's bi-annual bilingual magazine. The magazine contains literature reviews, best practices, current research and program updates generated by its members.

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Conference:

CACUSS hosts an annual conference in alternating locations across Canada. Members are encouraged to build presentations and panels, and special guest speakers are asked to attend. The conference open to non-members as well and sees attendance from a wide range of professionals (Senior leaders, student life professionals, emerging student affairs professionals, registrarial staff, etc)[1] The conference provides an opportunity for attendees to network, discuss current issues, share resources and ideas to support students on their campuses.

CAUCUSS Institutes

Similar to a conference, Institutes are offered over a period of several days, however they focus on a single theme or topic. They may be hosted by external or partnering affiliations. CAUCUSS provides detailed information on their upcoming events page. Institutes are an opportunity to develop participate's skills or knowledge in a specific area

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Professional associations exists to help provide professionals with a network of resources and professional development. Each association may be created based on location or area of expertise. For example OACUHO and ACUHO-i are two professional associations for Housing officers, however OACUHO is an Ontario association while ACUHO-i in an international organization.