Matthew Rom

CAPPA President
Associate Vice President for Facilities Management at The University of Oklahoma

Colleagues,

It is hard to believe that the spring term is over. I hope everyone had a successful spring and that summer projects are progressing without too many complications. Students will be back on campus before we know it!

It has been a busy few months. CAPPA presented numerous Supervisor’s Toolkits and a few more are scheduled for this summer. TAPPA held its annual conference in April, and APPA brought back its annual conference as well. I hear both were great events. If you didn’t get a chance to attend professional development in the spring, you are in luck as APPA will host a Leadership Academy and Institute for Facilities Management June 24-27, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas.

A joint planning committee continues to work hard planning the 2024 CAPPA/MAPPA conference. We will come together October 14-16, 2024, at the beautiful Union Station in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, to engage in professional development, networking, and fellowship. The educational sessions are being finalized and we hope to have a preliminary schedule available soon...

Glen Haubold

CAPPA Business Partner Representative; G Haubold Consulting
Retired, New Mexico State University

Each business partner has a different way of selling to the membership, and we try to accommodate all of them. However, whether it’s a vendor fair, lunches, time for dinners, golf events, or speed dating, CAPPA has one significant goal with our business partners: to make the introduction for business partners to a member of CAPPA who can use their services.

Years ago, a business partner who had been coming to CAPPA and RMA for years told me: Glen, I have never sold a job while at CAPPA or RMA, but I have developed relationships and sold millions of dollars in jobs over the years because of the contacts I made. It’s an investment with a significant return...

Upcoming Events

2024 Conferences

- KADPF Annual Training Conference/Trade Show will be held in Topeka, KS on October 6-8, 2024.
- CAPPA/MAPPA Annual Conference will be held in St Louis, MO on October 13-16, 2024.

APPA U

- Institute for Facilities Management - San Antonio, TX - June 24-27, 2024.
- Leadership Academy - San Antonio, TX - June 25-27, 2024.
- Supervisor's Toolkit (Bilingual) - San Antonio, TX - June 25-27, 2024.

Jennifer Kindt

CAPPA Treasurer
Director of Facilities Business Operations at South Dakota State University

In the fall of 2006, South Dakota State University hosted our very first APPA Supervisor’s Toolkit on our campus. I had the task of planning the event, and it was such a huge success that we hosted a toolkit again the following year.  During that following year, my AVP encouraged me to become more involved in CAPPA as a toolkit trainer. The whole toolkit program impressed me and I was excited to learn more about CAPPA, APPA, and the toolkit process. I attended several toolkits in the Midwest, training with others and learning each toolkit module. What a great opportunity I had to network with others, to gain knowledge of the organization, and to grow professionally.  

My first CAPPA Conference was in St. Louis, Missouri in 2017, also a joint conference with MAPPA...

CAPPA and MAPPA, the Central and Midwest regions of APPA, are excited to announce the 2024 CAPPA/MAPPA Joint Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Together, we are “Arching Forward” into the future of facilities management, and we want you to be a part of the experience!

Register Now!

Institution Showcase

Would you like to showcase your institution on the homepage of the CAPPA website?

Submit your institution photos to the Newsletter Editor; Jeannie.knott@utdallas.edu.

Ballots for CAPPA Officer Nominations and Award Nominations will be heading your way soon, so be on the lookout for future emails!

CAPPA is looking for volunteers to fill some positions that are available both on the Board of Directors, and other appointed positions. "Read more" to find out what positions are available and what their duties are!

CAPPA will also be honoring a few of our members with awards at the upcoming 2024 CAPPA/MAPPA Annual Conference. "Read more" to see what awards are available!

Supervisor’s Toolkit has been specifically designed to meet the needs of the facilities management professional. It is a structured, open-ended, and pragmatic approach to developing supervisors. It is not so much a teaching program as a development process, designed to help supervisors realize both personal and professional growth.The program has been newly designed as a full three days of training.

Help us in congratulating our most recent classes!

Scholarship Opportunities!

CAPPA’s Professional Development Committee continues to provide accessible options for members pursuing educational goals and skill advancement.

If you know someone at your school who benefited from a CAPPA scholarship, apply for your own and join them! If you don’t know anyone who has participated, apply now and lead the way in reducing training costs! Check out how simple it is to participate in CAPPA’s scholarship program by visiting our CAPPA Professional Development page.

Lee McQueen

CAPPA Historian
Retired, University of Nebraska at Kearney

The Evolving Ways We Tell Stories

Information sharing, pointing to the signal, has always been integral to the operation of CAPPA. Methods for this sharing have ranged from formal technical presentations, to informal bench-marking, to simply swapping stories. Regardless of the method, the reason for sharing information continues to be the advancement of the facilities profession in the central states’ region.

The initial CAPPA gathering in 1953 started a decades-long precedent for gathering the region every fall to compare notes and discuss common and/or unique solutions to problems...

Ben Boslaugh

CAPPA Vice President of Professional Development
Utilities Manager, Supervisor at Missouri State University

Summer is upon us and with it comes the lowest steam demands of the year. At MSU the Annual Steam Outage immediately follows Graduation. This event is a 5-day scramble of Boiler Inspections, Distribution System Repairs, and Facility System Repairs.

Here are 4 Tips on planning and carrying out your next annual steam outage!

From The Editor:

Thank you to those who submitted articles, photographs, and information to be included in this season’s CAPPA Newsletter!

We Want to Hear from You!

Share the lessons you’ve learned, your triumphs, innovations, and more!

Please feel free to write and submit articles for the CAPPA Newsletter at any time throughout the year for consideration. Preferred size for the articles would be between 500 words (ex. ½ page with 1 medium graphic/photo/chart) - 1,000 words (ex. full page with 2-3 small graphics/photos/charts). Please include names, descriptions, or titles for the media used. If the article submitted exists in another publication, please provide the link to the article, if available. Provide author’s name & title (photo preferred, but not required). Email submissions via Word document or PDF attachments to the Newsletter Editor; Jeannie.knott@utdallas.edu.